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The following is a collection of twelve magazine articles on the history, geology and eccentric characters of Wales. Many were published in Country Quest, Picture Postcard Monthly and Coin News in 2005 and 2006.
Meet Edward Lhuyd, Wales’ first geologist and find out how the horns of a long extinct giant bull could be mistaken for a relic of an ancient Welsh mythical folk hero.
Read about the rise and fall of the Banks of the Black Sheep in Aberystwyth and Black Ox in Llandovery and how violent robbers near Devil’s Bridge were brought to justice.
If you are feeling a little under the weather after all this talk of early banking and bloody murder, why not take the waters at Llandrindod Wells’ fashionable Pump House Hotel?
Another two articles discuss Druid’s Head tokens issued by the Copper King of Parys Mountain and how an 1807 act of parliament turned Aberaeron into a Georgian chocolate box town.
In the days before formal schooling for all children, nomadic teachers set up a makeshift school and then moved on – Old Peevish and the Circulating School details the relationship between the founder of this Movement and his strongest patroness.
Finally, come on a pub crawl with a difference. Time travelling is thirsty work after all, especially when you have a Welsh language account of Dr Crippen's execution to read while you finish your pint.
Meet Edward Lhuyd, Wales’ first geologist and find out how the horns of a long extinct giant bull could be mistaken for a relic of an ancient Welsh mythical folk hero.
Read about the rise and fall of the Banks of the Black Sheep in Aberystwyth and Black Ox in Llandovery and how violent robbers near Devil’s Bridge were brought to justice.
If you are feeling a little under the weather after all this talk of early banking and bloody murder, why not take the waters at Llandrindod Wells’ fashionable Pump House Hotel?
Another two articles discuss Druid’s Head tokens issued by the Copper King of Parys Mountain and how an 1807 act of parliament turned Aberaeron into a Georgian chocolate box town.
In the days before formal schooling for all children, nomadic teachers set up a makeshift school and then moved on – Old Peevish and the Circulating School details the relationship between the founder of this Movement and his strongest patroness.
Finally, come on a pub crawl with a difference. Time travelling is thirsty work after all, especially when you have a Welsh language account of Dr Crippen's execution to read while you finish your pint.
54 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 15, 2012
About the author
R.S. Pyne
76 books17 followersNow based in rural West Wales, R. S. Pyne is a freelance science writer/geoscience researcher with a PhD in Micropalaeontology from Aberystwyth University. She used to be an Iron Age Celt (not in a previous life; as a member of Prytani - The Iron Age Celtic reenactment society) and has a good appreciation of the weaponry of this period. Non writing interests include growing carnivorous plants and orchids, and cryptozoology.
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