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Always wondered about 'on the dole'!

My maternal Grand Mother spoke Breton before she spoke French and I remember stories of her being able to converse a little with an older Welsh gentleman who spoke Welsh at the Inter-Celtic festival of Lorient. it's fascinating how close those languages are. thank you for this documentary. Kenavo!

Watching this in Blaengarw. The Bettws and Llangeinor / USA connections have blown my mind. Awesome stuff! Thanks Graham and Chris! 😊

Fantastic informative video. Thank you ❤

Thanks very much Graham. Lovve to hear of all the links between Wales and Brittany ( AND CORNWALL/Devon) I am an Irishman And I regards our peoples as Kinsmen. There was an ITV programme back in the 60s Early 70s called ' Songs of the Celts.' It was full of Welsh /Breton links and their songs. Ireland also has a good no. of connections with Brittany. In fact, the Irish province of Leinster is named after Gaulish invaders who came from..............Armorica..............Brittany! Let's have more about the shared history of Brittany and Wales! Thanks very much!😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃

I’ve only just stumbled upon this channel and I’m hooked! Fantastic work Graham. I was born in Maesteg and spent much of my life in the Borough of Bridgend. I especially loved your piece about Llangynwyd as many of my ancestors are buried at Llangynwyd cemetery. Also, my children and I have spent many a sunny afternoon at Coity Castle and Ogmore Castle and those fond memories are now greatly enriched thanks to your hard work. We were unaware of the rich history of our local castles and beauty spots. Thank you so much. Keep up the amazing work!

wasn't the mansion destroyed over a spat with the local authority in the 60s for spite?

An interesting video, thank you. Replayed a century later with the general strike and protests of 1927 to 1938 and a possible hint as to what may happen due to the social dissatisfaction brewing in the UK today.

Do you have a video that describes the aspects of Welsh history that are now taught in Welsh schools

Graham doing what he does best, educating and amusing at the same time, brilliant

The nation that we know today called Wales wouldn't have existed at the time. Britain was populated by warring tribes that eventuelly ended up under Roman rule. The majority of settlers to Brittany came from tribes located on the Devon & Cornwall pernisular. The Britons to the north were pushed to the western extremities by the Anglo Saxons. The Saxons called the Britons Welsh, a word used to denote those they saw as different from themselves. In the 10th C, an alliance was formed under Owain ap Dyfnwal, King of Strathclyde, Olaf Guthfrithson, King of Dublin & Constantine II, King of Scotland in an attempt to expell the Saxons from Britain for good. However they were soundly defeated at the Battle of Brunanburh in 937 by king Athelstan.

Brilliant stuff!

Poor unfortunate man. Sometimes it's not good to be the King!

The End - literally

the book by kathryn warner... is def a great read... as is the mortimer history society channel..., the life of roger mortimer, the 1st earl of march and regent of england... surely the lord of berkley castle would have been executed by Edward III for this incident, ? roger mortimer the regent of england was def executed and queen dowager isabella capet ,removed from court into retirement...

What an absolutely beastly thing to do to anyone? It is not cricket, is it?

Where is this place @5:11

Very interesting Graham. I have always wondered about the Romans in Dan-y-graig, Porthcawl and wondered if you could shed some light on this small topic

How happy I am, as a Breton born of an Irish mother to hear summerized, all what our countries share, and is dear to me. Bretons and Welsh are not celtic cousins. They are brothers. You forgot to say that we even share the same national anthem! Breizh Atav! Cymru Am Byth!

Great video and very informative in an engaging and interesting style as usual. Slightly off topic, in Ireland it has long been the custom for people undergoing unusual good luck or a comfortable life, to place a stone in their shoe to induce some hardship back into their daily routine so as not to become too complacent. I remember being on the boat from Dublin to Holyhead and standing at the head of several staircases to the car deck. A very frail Irish gentleman stood by me and a Canadian traveler said to him 'Sir, there are a whole bunch of steps and there is an elevator right there that you could use!' The elderly man turned and said 'Don't be trying to take a bit of hardship away from me. There's nothing like a little bit of hardship to keep the spirits up!'

Always enjoy learning about local history. Great stuff.

My late mam was born in Glyncorrwg in 1926 ,the youngest of a very large family and moved all around the valleys as her brothers and father sought work. Terrible stories she had of the Depression years and she herself left school at 8 years old suffering from rheumatic fever never to return. As a young woman she joined the NAAFI and through her work there met my father,a cheeky London chap based at Manobier. She remembered the camp in its guise as a camp for officers and would tell how many of them would cultivate small gardens outside their huts and would throw apoplectic fits should anyone dare walk across them or displace the white painted stones around them. She also said some were allowed into town and would refuse to queue and would arrogantly demand service and goods. She remembered the breakout and said all the locals laughed to think of strangers taking on the Welsh mountains with their bogs and exposed terrain. I think she said some of them were glad to hand themselves in after a night on a Welsh mountain!! My parents married in 1949 up here in Kent and we're married for 54 years. Mam was a girl from the valleys till the end. Gorffwys mewn hedd mam.

Great retelling of a story I once came across in the book Legends of Porthcawl and the Glamorgan Coast. I am left with a question though - is the quarry still there, and what kind of quarry was it? It seems the fiery fiend came from the quarry and returned to it. Would this be the origin of the hill’s name? A crack leading down to the underworld, perhaps?

I love old urban legends, I have never heard this story, I was always told that the dunes took over through time, thank you for your vlogs, great to see local history jus jus

😊 my name descends from king/prince madoc/madog 😊

Diolch Graham, that was fascinating again. I'd heard of the link between the Vaughans and wrecking along that coastline from my father, but that was all, so your episode was really enlightening. My father's mother was born a Vaughan and my father would often say that we were related to the Vaughans in your story. I was never sure if he was joking, or if he believed it. I now know that my grandmother's grandfather, who was a coal miner in Tonypandy, originated from Ambleston, Pembrokeshire, so no luck with any claim to Southerndown for me! Keep up the good work!

Fascinating story, he was the only one who had the forsight to save as many trains as poss.

Search for Dai Woodhams name on here . There are at least 2 interviews with him .

Hi Graham. Good stuff, this is what was originally meant for the defunct podcast Welsh Political Icons on Francis Lewis mikecrid.blogspot.com/2024/10/francis-lewis.html#_msoanchor_1

Are these in the remaining hut at Island farm?

Da iawn Graham, fascinating stuff. I do have a linguistic question though: When referring to place names in the Vale, how best to pronounce them? Please allow me to take two examples from your narration, your mentions of Boverton and Stalling Down. With your rendition, "Bover" would rhyme with "hover", and "stalling" sounds like what a car may do. As a lad growing up in Barry, with a dad from Llanmaes, I always heard Boverton pronounced as "Buvverton" (as if rhyming with "lover"); and Stalling would sound like "starling", as in the bird. I don't know the answer - we each have our own pronunciations, often reflecting our own backgrounds, but it would be a shame to loose the "Gileston"s of the Vale. And thinking of it, perhaps Boverton and Stalling Down had other pronunciations or names back in the days of the topic of your vid. As for Llantwit, and the shift from Ll to L, I shan't go there - could be an episode all of its own! Keep up the good work!

Porthmadog is not named after Prince Madog.😂 Prince Madog, according to the tale set sail from Porth Penrhyn, Deganwy (Llandudno area). The real Madog was from Glamorgan in the 6th century the son of king Meurig, Uthr Bendragon…

If you read the trial notes from Hereford Cathedral, the witnesses are listed and their relationship to William. A priest had added a note to the margin, it said in Latin PRIMA meaning cousin

This pub is most definitely haunted I worked there for about 2 years and the way the building is laid out is at the front is the bar middle is the kitchen and out the back is a long corridor with staff room at one end and public toilets at the other with offices and stock rooms in between and one day I was taking a short cut from the staff room onto the main bar and as I was walking past one of the stock rooms the door started banging and I could hear children screaming I opened the banging door and there was nothing in it other that boxes of crisps. I have also seen a pan lift up off the counter and fly across the kitchen and land perfectly on the other side no chef in the kitchen just me also manegmet at the time have seen dark shadows figure at the end of there bed it is creepy as hell in there supposedly the captains wife is under the kitchen walking fridge

Cambria wasn't the Roman name for Wales. There wasn't one, as Wales didn't exist as a concept until after the Anglo-Saxon invasions. Cambria is a later, Mediaeval name, derived from the Welsh 'Cymru'.

Very convincing theory. Great to see someone talking about how Glamorgan was a center of learning and culture in the fifth and sixth century. Its rare to see these facts brought to light.

Great video on the welsh/breton connections. Have you read the work of Chris Barber? He writes about this exact topic and makes a great case for the historic Arthur living in both Wales and Brittany. Athrwys ap Meurig is a Welsh king and also possible lived in Brittany for a time. His name is certainly similar to Arthur and could have morphed when translated from welsh to Latin to English. He lived in the time period and in one of the places where the earliest Welsh Arthurian legends are set. I find it particularly compelling that he ruled from Caerleon where Geoffrey of Monmouth who created the Arthurian legend as we know it had Arthur ruling. It seems likely that since Geoffrey was from South Wales he would have known of Athrwys and used them as the basis for his story. I think it would be quite a coincidence if Athrwys was not the basis of the legendary Arthur. For me the question of whether or not their was a historic King Arthur is not a question of whether or not one person fulfills all the things the legendary Arthur is said to have done, but whether there was a real person whose life could have inspired the stories and around whom the legends could gather.

Interesting. Does your postulate take the Great Vowel Shift into account?

There’s actually tons of evidence to show that the accent is very old, originating with the Gwentian dialect. My favourite was a source from several hundred years ago referring to the ‘ae’ sounds as like ‘the bleat of a sheep’. But certainly there are older sources than that, Rice ap Merrick for example - 1578 When I edited part of the Wikipedia page about the Cardiff accent some 12 years ago I had to add in the bits about the Gwentian dialect, because it was all just the old stuff about being a port town/industrial times!!

The old Glamorgan accent.

Very interesting but un watchable!

It’s changing to a Middle Eastern accent now

Iolo Morganug - Collects and publishes hundreds of lost/would rot away documents of Welsh history, restores and validates ancient British history, finds and restores the ancient British alphabet, restores one of the biggest art festivals in Europe , makes poetry big again, makes Welsh big again, makes being Welsh big again, is exceptionally intelligent, wise and knowledgeable . The establishment : He's Bipolar.................. Any chance at looking at his achievements instead of 'He's a deluded criminal drug addict who is also mentally ill?

It's a slant on the Severn Estury accent. Down on the South coast of England, Cardiff and \|Newport sound the same and indded so do a lot of Bristolians. As for the Vallies, well enough said.

The people of cardiff (indigenous) have a lovely accent and are the most polite of any country ive visited

South Wales got a huge influx of English and Irish during the Coal boom years 1840-1910.

It would be a shame to see it die out. I loves my tmaatows me.

Very informative. I remember visiting a patient in her home and meeting her husband. I am Irish and my daughter lives in Belfast and I am well used to the Belfast accent. This gentleman had a distinct Belfast accent. I asked where in Belfast he had originated from? 'Pembroke!' He replied. He then went on to explain how people in Pembroke speak with an accent called 'The Belfast Brogue'.

I was born in Roath in 1961. My mum was the daughter of Irish immigrants. She didn't like the Cardiff hard A and insisted that I pronounce words correctly. I distinctly remember her saying "It's Cahdiff not Caadiff" :) So I grew up with a bit of a toffee accent despite being a guttersnipe. It hasn't done me any harm... I live in Eden Australia now. I was reading about how the Australian accent came about as soon as people started living here! I've been interested in accents since I was a child reading about Henry Higgins (who I have just discovered was based on the philanthropist and poet Thomas Day) who claimed to be able to tell what London street you lived on by your accent. Love your work Graham👍

Back in the day though, would they not have spoken English, but Welsh instead?