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Dr Merlin Pryce and the discovery of penicillin
Phil Carradice
Most people remember Sir Alexander Fleming as the man who, on 3 September 1928, discovered penicillin. Yet the part played in the discovery by his friend and colleague Merlin Pryce, a Welshman from the Merthyr area, should never be underestimated. Indeed, there are many who say that it was Pr...
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The Battle of Britain comes to Wales
James Roberts
Seventy years ago the first rumblings of what is today known as the Battle of Britain commenced. By May 1940 German forces had overrun Belgium, the Netherlands and northern France. Hitler's goal was now fixed on destroying Britain's Royal Air Force and the invasion of Great Britain. Many reme...
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Korea Remembered
James Roberts
Sixty years ago thousands of British servicemen went to war in a far away land. On 25 June 1950 communist-backed North Korean forces invaded South Korea, triggering a global military conflict just five years after the cessation of the Second World War. Following the division of the Korean pen...
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Captain Scott and the Cardiff connection
Phil Carradice
Nearly everybody knows the name of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and the story of his doomed attempt to reach the South Pole. Scott may not have been the best of organisers - or always the most understanding of leaders - but there is no denying the heroism of the man and of his team of explorers...
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Postcard mania
Phil Carradice
Most people who are interested in history like to get in touch with the past - by reading about people and events, by visiting historical sites, by looking at and holding artefacts. Artefacts don't just exist in museums and these days it is easier than you ever thought possible to find a piece...
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Tredegar House and the death of Gwyneth Morgan
Phil Carradice
Tredegar House in Newport was, for years, the family seat of the Lords Tredegar, one of the richest families in Wales. In December 1924 the disappearance of Gwyneth, daughter of Courtanay Morgan, then holder of the Tredegar title, caused a furore in the country. Gwyneth, always something of a wild child, had been staying at a house in Wimbledon, possibly drying out after drug or alcohol abuse. She just walked out one foggy morning, with 拢70 in her pocket, and five months later her lifeless body, weighted down with stones, was discovered in the Thames at Limehouse.
