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The full masthead proclaimed The Cambrian and Weekly General Advertiser for Swansea and the Principality of Wales. By 1906 it was acquired by South Wales Post Newspapers Co. [1] and, in 1930, merged with Herald of Wales. [2] Many articles in this newspaper have been indexed and the index is searchable at https://archive.swansea.gov.uk/cambrian
The paper was first published in Bala in October 1860, as a four-page supplement, The Merioneth Herald, in The Oswestry Advertiser.Having subsequently become a distinct paper printed in Oswestry, England, in 1864 it became the Merionethshire Standard and Mid-Wales Herald [3] and, in 1869, was renamed The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard.
The Cambrian; Cambrian News; The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian; The Cardiff Times; The Cardigan Bay Visitor; Flintshire Observer; The Cardigan Observer; Carmarthen Journal; Carmarthen Weekly Reporter; Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald; Celtic Weekly Newspapers; County Observer and Monmouthshire Central Advertiser; Y Cymro
The Cambrian Quarterly Magazine and Celtic Repertory was an English-language quarterly magazine that published articles on Welsh and Celtic history and literature. Its aims were "to preserve 'native lore' for posterity and to win 'the incurious and indifferent into an interest for Wales'." [1] It ran from 1829 to 1833. [2]
The media in Wales provide services in both English and Welsh, and play a role in modern Welsh culture. BBC Cymru Wales began broadcasting in 1923 have helped to promote a form of standardised spoken Welsh, [1] and one historian has argued that the concept of Wales as a single national entity owes much to modern broadcasting. [2]
Capital North West and Wales operates an opt-out service for the North Wales Coast on 96.3 FM, carrying an hour-long Welsh language programme each weekday. GTFM, a community radio station in Pontypridd, airs Welsh-medium programmes on Tuesday and Sunday evenings and Saturday mornings with a daily news bulletin in Welsh from BBC Radio Cymru.
A 12-year-old boy and his grandfather were found dead next to each other in a tent during a camping trip, according to reports. Per the BBC and U.K. newspaper The Telegraph, an inquest heard that ...
30 March – Dai Thomas, Wales national rugby player (date of death unknown) 1 April – George Ewart Evans, folklorist and oral historian (died 1988) [33] 11 May – Aneirin Talfan Davies, writer and publisher (died 1980) [34] 11 June – Ronnie Boon, Wales rugby union player (died 1998) 12 June – Mansel Thomas, composer and conductor (died ...