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The pilgrim game

September 5, 2017

When I was an undergraduate, way back when, we played board games like Risk, sometimes...

The Llanilltud Fawr (Llantwit Major) Galilee Project – nearly there!

July 9, 2013

If heritage trails test the breadth of your historical knowledge, historical recreations test the depth...

Devauden and the Vedw

March 1, 2015

Another treasure from the newsletter archive of the Gwent County History Association. This is a...

Good Friday, riding westward

April 19, 2014

Pleasure or businesse, so, our Soules admit For their first mover, and are whirld by...

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...

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...