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Cardiff’s Martyr’s Memorial

June 28, 2013

The Heritage Tortoise … prowling round the heritage of Wales and the wider world, strolling...

If the past is a foreign country, should you get its geography right?

August 19, 2013

Hilary Mantel says that if you want to write historical novels and you include facts...

Deserted cottages

May 26, 2020

I thought I had done all I could with the lost farming landscapes north of...

Coedcae and the Cwm

August 4, 2020

Having found the ruins of Coedcae Garw thanks to @mikekohnstamm (https://www.heritagetortoise.co.uk/2020/07/coedcae-garw/) I’ve reverse engineered the...

The dying of the light

October 29, 2014

If you teach death and commemoration, it’s a very strange experience caring for someone through...

Llanfair-ar-y-bryn

March 11, 2019

The main purpose of our visit to Llanfair-ar-y-bryn was to check the memorial to the...