East WalesÌýreports on the 120th anniversary of the visit of Queen Elizabeth of Roumania to Llandudno. She described Llandudno as "as a beautiful haven of peace" and several streets in the town are already named in her honour. the story.
has pulled together its collection of galleries. Collections range from fun-filled holiday camp snapshots to photographs of the short-lived Rhyl-Wallasey Hovercraft from the 1960s. the story.
reports on an exhibition celebrating 100 years of the Girl Guides. Collated by Brecknock Museum along with Girlguiding Breconshire, local groups from the area have contributed to this fascinating exhibition. the story.
reports on an exciting online virtual museum that showcases the city's 15th century ship. Visitors to the virtual environment can "walk" around the ship's underwater remains and see it in its medieval landscape. the story.
gallery of photographs of historic buildings continues to grow. at the gallery.
The Queen returns to Caernarfon in Gwynedd today for the first time in 35 years, as part of a two-day tour of Wales with the Duke of Edinburgh.
The Queen is set to visit Caernarfon castle, the scene of the investiture of her eldest son, Prince Charles as the Prince of Wales, on July 1,1968. the story on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Wales News.
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Over the years Wales has been a real "melting pot" of warfare and strife, so much so that when the English kings tried to conquer the land, they could only achieve it by building gigantic stone castles. Indeed, it has been said that, in Wales, there are more castles per square mile than in any other country in the world.
For the historian, and for the casual history lover, Wales has a huge array of battle sites, many of them dating back hundreds of years. The location of the battles fought by the invading Roman legions are not easy to identify but the shores of the Menai Straits, on the Anglesey side, to the west of Bangor, were the site of the final destruction of the Druids by Suetonius Paulinus in AD 49.
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North East Wales reports on a high street clock in Wrexham that has been restored and is about to go back into public service.Ìý For a while, the two-face clock displayed different times on either face. Ìý the ´óÏó´«Ã½ NE Wales article.
North West Wales links to some unseen footage from the recent history series, Wales and the History of the World.ÌýIn this clip, Eddie Butler discovers how the internment camp at Frongoch became known as the 'University of Revolution'. Watch the clip.Ìý
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Mid Wales reveals how Major Lloyd-Jones of the Parachute Regiment foiled the Nazis by using the Welsh langauge. the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Mid Wales article.
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An example of an automatic secret ballot box and a raggedy Punch and Judy dog form part of the online collection of objects provided by museums and audience as part of A History of the WorldÌýseries of programmes. the objects.Ìý
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Llansteffan and Laugharne castles currently form part of an online gallery of historic buildings in South West Wales. Find out how you can add your photographs to this collection. the gallery on ´óÏó´«Ã½ÌýSW Wales.
A chance find of some reel-to-reel tapes lead Radio Wales journalist Selma Chalabi on a journey of discovery to the exotic Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal..
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Selma's grandfather, Noel Kennedy Paterson, or NKP as he was known, had served as a member of the Indian Civil Service and had rose to the rank of Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar, during the 1930s and 40s.
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Cellular Jail on the Andaman Islands
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The Press Gang, giant East Indiamen battling up the Channel, sailors with girls in every port - we all have different visions of our naval heritage. A 100 years ago old wooden battleships lay moored and wallowing in the rivers and estuaries of Wales.
These were the training ships of Victorian Britain, places where boys whose dreams of a life at sea could actually become reality - if they survived the harsh regimes, the crippling cold, poor food and diseases like enteric fever and rickets.
Bangor Training Ship "Clio"
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North East Wales reports on Mold's first Bailey Hill festival on Sunday 2 May that will celebrate the historical importance of the town's Norman castle site. The festival is for all ages and will have free entertainment, including dance, music, poetry and story telling. Read the ´óÏó´«Ã½ NE Wales .
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As waves thundered and crashed onto the beach, women pushed bottles of whisky down the legs of their bloomers and hurried back to their houses. Children ran between the beach and the village pushing wheelbarrows full of alcohol while men battled with the waves to pull cases of liquor out of the water before the arrival of the Customs Officers.
Bottles of whisky from the wreck of the schooner Loch Shiel can still be found
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Seaside piers - ice cream cones and candyfloss, pleasure steamers and elegant Victorian ladies in crinolines and parasols parading down the decking. The picture is an attractive one. And Wales, like so many coastal regions of Britain had - and still has - more than its fair share of piers.
Penarth pier
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Writers have always been fascinated by people and places. The people who inspired the great writers of the past, who acted as role models for their fictional characters, are long dead and therefore beyond our reach. It is not the same with places.
Poet and writer Dylan Thomas in a ´óÏó´«Ã½ studio, November 1948
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| 13:47 UK time, Friday, 30 April 2010
