A new and innovative archaeological app has been launched in Wales!

All of Wales' archaeological treasures are to be accessible via an app for the first time. Archwilio, which claims to a world first for a whole country, will allow users of tablets and smartphones to access records about what lies under foot in both rural and urban areas ( Read more... )

Exciting news from North Wales :) Work on water pipes in Castle Street, Conwy, have turned up what appears to be the remains of a medieval house and cesspit.

Experts say the finds are "incredibly important" and could provide a new insight into medieval Conwy ( Read more... )

I hate to link to Fox News but in this case it has extra detail the local paper doesn't.

Two archaeologists in South Wales have stumbled across a lost Medieval stone while out walking.

"We were going for a stroll in the evening and we sort of noticed the stone, half sticking out of the stream," Nikki Vousden of the of the Royal Commission on the ( Read more... )

Thanks so much to a8c_sock for covering! I've been away for the weekend at a wedding in sunny Sussex and the promised free wifi in the hotel did not materialise.

Anyway this caught my eye on the telly whilst I was there!

The BBC has a Tudor season coming up: The Tudor Court Season. It's going to be on BBC 2 and features documentaries about Thomas ( Read more... )

I'm definitely buying this one! Researchers James Moore and Paul Nero have written a Good Pub Guide for the 16th century - based on documents in the British Library.

The study features a guide to around 250 actual hostelries from around the country, describing them as they were at the end of the sixteenth century. Some of them still survive - ( Read more... )

Sorry about the lack of post yesterday, we had no internet :( It was a difficult time for the whole family.

Tonight, have a fascinating article from Wales about how the recent snowfall has revealed complex earthworks.

Settlements dating back 4,000 years were only found because just the right amount of snow fell on the countryside. ( Read more... )

Tonight, a new resource created by University College, London. The 'Legacies of British Slave-ownership' project traces the impact of slave ownership on the formation of modern Britain.

At the core of the project is a database containing the identity of all slave-owners in the British Caribbean at the time slavery ended. As the project unfolded, ( Read more... )

Two quick links tonight because I couldn't choose which to post :)

The first is one of those discoveries every historian hopes for I think. A British academic has stumbled on the 500 year old equivalent of a 'Most Wanted' poster for Niccola Machiavelli, author of The Prince, while he was searching for information on town criers in Florence. The ( Read more... )

Hugely exciting stuff from Aberystwyth in Wales today, where librarians believe they have found an early and previously-unknown depiction of Henry VIII and his sisters as children. Not only that, but the illumination is extremely unusual in that it appears to show the young Henry weeping at the black draped bed of his late mother.


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On the 2nd July, a new building is officially opening at St Fagans National Museum of Welsh Life at Cardiff.


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