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Brecon, Wales
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It's Fat Bear Week explore.org/fat-bear-week when you can vote for the fattest bear at Brooks River in Katmai National Park, Alaska, shining a light on bear conservation. My pick this year is Chunk (below).
A hoard of Iron Age gold coins have been discovered for the first time in Wales. The fifteen coins, known as staters, were officially declared treasure this week by the senior coroner for north Wales: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-6647…
It's the Eisteddfod in Wales this week and here's a handy guide for those who know nothing about it: bbc.co.uk/cymrufyw/66290319
Tests have confirmed that the Iron Age warrior buried with a sword and a mirror on the Isles of Scilly was a woman. Excavators believe she may have had a commanding role in warfare of the time theguardian.com/science/2023…
Jeckyll the Parrot got lost on Eyri (Snowdon, Wales) after being chased by peregrines, and greeted his rescuers with a relieved 'hello!' bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-6629…
The King visited Brecon yesterday and I had the honour of being presented to him at the Cathedral. I'm on the far right looking smug!
Researchers have found 4,000-year-old plague DNA in Britain - the oldest evidence of the disease in the country. Think I'd steer clear of that dig bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-br…
If you live in the hills, this picture is enough to make you shudder. It may be almost microscopic, but midges are at their peak now and biting for all they are worth. I feel like a walking larder.
Today is Ascension Day and I am always put in mind of the Ascension Chapel at Walsingham where Jesus seems to have burst through the ceiling leaving only his feet behind. Sadly, there is no trace of him on the first floor.
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We are excited to announce the #reopening of the museum on 23.5.23! Here’s a sneak peak of an item newly on display. Queen Victoria herself sent this cushion to 5888 Pte Arthur Evans, SWB, after meeting him while he was recovering from an injury sustained in the Second Boer War!
Need to write a lecture for Friday evening on the Druids in Wales. It's also booked for a reprise in June. Given the coronation last weekend, I'm thinking of including a section on Celtic ideas of sovereignty.
On the basis that you announce controversial news when everyone is concentrating (say) on the Coronation, the government has just allowed animal testing to resume for cosmetics after a ban lasting 25 years bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
I met Ven. Martyn Gough after a service at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. He was delightful and it was good to see a fellow Welshman in London. May he rest in peace.
An enormous character. Proud Welshman. Loyal friend of the Royal Navy. A faithful man of God.
Tributes have been paid to the Venerable Martyn Gough, Chaplain of the Fleet - the RN's most senior cleric who has died aged just 57.
royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-la…
You've probably had it happen. You take a photograph of the original BBC television Trumpton characters and get photobombed by Orinoco the Womble.
I know every year I praise The Sixteen (@TheSixteen) Choir to the rafters but they did it again last night in Llandaff Cathedral. Felt like listening to heaven - they are superb.
I have tweeted about Tullie House Museum before and their superb Roman finds from Hadrian's Wall and Carlisle. Good luck with the launch of the fundraiser.
Please feel free to share to others who might like to donate to the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery in Carlisle via the following link: facebook.com/donate/88441496…
Many thanks! @history_alice @nfergus @ThatHistorian @MikesVoice @Lucy_Worsley
From today I no longer live in Brecon Beacons National Park but in Bannau Brycheiniog National Park. The name (at least, the first part) has changed to God's own language. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-6527…
Great news that one of the royal courts of the Princes of Gwynedd has been bought by Wales' historic buildings organisation, Cadw. They plan to enhance it for public viewing bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-6519…
