Welsh Lives archive

Dec
07

A real football man

Laura McAllister pays tribute to Gary Speed, manager of the Wales football team and Wales’s most capped outfield international

Nov
28

The murder of Hilda Murrell

John Osmond on why unanswered questions around a killing 27 years ago continue to grip our attention

Sep
08

Soul of the party

Anthony Hayward looks back on the life of Huw Ceredig, a Welsh actor known for playing Reg Harries in TV soap Pobol y Cwm

Aug
21

From Leipzig to Abercynon

Keith James and Rhys David look back at the life of Henry Kroch, the IWA’s founding chairman and a giant of the post-war industrial scene in Wales

Aug
06
Jul
08

A man whose destiny was Wales

Dafydd Williams looks back at the life of Dafydd Huws, psychiatrist, farmer and politician

May
15

An iconic Welsh figure in the history of Islam

Sophie Gilliat-Ray looks back at the life of Wales best known Imam, Sheikh Saeed Ismail

Mar
23

End of a Welsh Reign

Peter Stead reflects on the passing of an icon whose consort observed didn’t look very different from his own sisters in Port Talbot

Sep
15

A politician dedicated to Wales and her rural life

Jonathan Fryer looks back at the life of a softly spoken Libral Democrat peer who crossed party boundaries

Jul
23

A woman who chose our country

Jon Gower remembers Lowri Gwilym who was lost to Wales in 2010