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Gruffudd ap Llywelyn: the unwanted son
1 March 2022
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Gruffudd was born to the royal princes of Gwynedd, but as an illegitimate son, he would see his inheritance snatched away. But, although he would
How Anne Hyde changed the course of British history
16 February 2022
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Had Anne Hyde lived beyond 13 March 1671 she would have been Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, and yet she remains relatively forgotten, lost
Charles III or George VII – a brief history of regnal names
21 January 2022
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When you have been known by your family and the world as Charles for 73 years, why would you suddenly want to change it so
The prisoners of Pevensey Castle
17 January 2022
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Built as a roman fort, by the fifteenth century Pevensey Castle was being used as a state prison. We look at some of the most
Ignatius Sancho (c1729-1780): composer, writer, mentor and friend
3 September 2021
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When a two year old boy named Ignatius Sancho arrived in England in 1731, an orphan and a slave, it would have been hard for