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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...

The pilgrim game

September 5, 2017

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

Knowing where you live

May 25, 2015

It is just a bit disconcerting to realise that you can live somewhere for getting...

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...

Medieval Trelech

March 4, 2015

In the summer of 2003 the Gwent County History Association went to Trelech to look...

Laleston to Parc Slip

November 28, 2013

Well, we always knew this would be the tricky bit of the route. We actually...