Welsh Lives archive

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

Apr
14

Smashing the mould of the two-party system

John Osmond looks back at a Welshman whose burning passion was democracy

Mar
22

Gareth Jones 1933-2009

John Osmond on a man who wielded great policy influence across the parties

Mar
03

Labour leader who held the party together in the 1980s

John Osmond offers some reflections on the life of Michael Foot, one of Labour’s most loved leaders who died in March 2010 aged 96

Jan
04

Hurricane from Llangennech

Dylan Iorwerth remembers the late Hywel Teifi Edwards

Oct
11

Patrick Hannan 1941-2009

Geraint Talfan Davies on a man who recorded the first cut of our history

Apr
21

Gwynfor

Dafydd Wigley looks back at the career of ‘the greatest Welsh statesman of the 20th century’ who died in April 2005

Feb
24

Sir Glanmor Williams 1920 – 2005

Kenneth O. Morgan on the founder of the 20th Century school of Welsh historians