As many people know, this autumn the - the bi-annual golf competition between Europe and the USA - comes to Wales for the first time when the matches, in what is now the third most watched sporting event in the world, are due to take place at The Celtic Manor in Newport.
The competition owes its origin to a professional golf match held between British and American golfers in 1921 but it took St Albans seed merchant to come up with the idea of a cup and a regular series of competitions.
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Imagine the scene. The dockyard is full of workmen, women and children; bands are playing and eager spectators and townspeople mingle happily with dignitaries and naval officers. It is July 21 1853, and the 90 gun wooden hulled warship Caesar is about to be launched from the slipways of .
The appointed hour arrives, speeches are made and, to the accompaniment of loud cheers and encouraging shouts, the new ship begins to slide into the river - and then she sticks, fast. No matter what the dockyard officials and workmen try to do, the Caesar simply refuses to move.
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has a article on Llanrwst Almshouses, a 400-year-old building that is now a museum, and at the very centre of celebrations to mark the town's history. On Friday 28 May, there will be performing arts and music events at the museum, and the following day, Saturday 29 May, Llanrwst town centre will be filled with old-fashioned fair rides, side shows and a market. .
features an photograph of a bottle of Wrexham pilsener lager brewed by the Wrexham Lager Beer Company to mark the centenary of the brewery. It is one of the objects from north west Wales that forms part of A History of the World online collection. .
has a article on a special summer exhibition at the Newtown Textile Museum which has gathered its collection of postcards and photos of floods and flood defences in the town. .
features an archive clip of Vincent Kane having a fun-packed day in July 1970. Vincent Kane recalls his fear at having to take a ride on the big dipper at Coney Beach in Porthcawl. .
also features objects from the online collection created for A History of the World. An amputation kit for injured coalminers, and a Roman alter stone from a fort called Leucarum feature in the gallery.
This Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of an inferno that destroyed one of Wales' most historic landmarks, and at the same time left Anglesey all but cut off from the rest of Wales.
Until the fateful night of the 23 May 1970, Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge had stood solid, spanning the perilous Menai Straits with its innovative tubular steel construction for some 120 years. Sitting alongside Thomas Telford's pioneering , Stephenson's tubular steel construction carried the rail link to Anglesey. It was a vital economic and social lifeline.
Photograph of Britannia Bridge, Menai Straits, taken from Church Island by Ian Yule.
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Just after noon on 18 June 1928, inhabitants of the coastal town of Burry Port in Carmarthenshire caught the heavy drone of aircraft engines. Looking skywards they were soon able to pick out the graceful lines of a small orange aeroplane, making its way along the coast from the direction of Tenby and the far west.
The aircraft, soon identified as the seaplane Friendship, was flying low across the water. She circled the Loughor estuary and just after 12.40pm touched down on the choppy waters at Burry Port. Inside the aeroplane was and by landing at this small south Wales port she had became the first woman ever to fly across the Atlantic ocean.
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Everybody has heard about , the Lady with the Lamp. A woman of undoubted power and drive, she certainly deserves to be remembered as the founder of modern nursing.
Many will have heard about Mary Seacole, the black nurse who was turned down for inclusion in Nightingale's party because of issues like race, class and education - it didn't stop her, she went to the Crimea where she worked as tirelessly as Florence Nightingale to help Britain's wounded soldiers.
But only very few will have heard of , the remarkable Welsh woman who also worked with Nightingale in the Crimea. Born at Bala on May 24 1789, she was one of 16 children, taking charge of the family and effectively bringing up the other children after her mother died.
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Monday 17 May marked the 45th anniversary to the day of one of Wales' most tragic coal mining disasters in recent memory. As miners at Cambrian Colliery, Clydach Vale near Tonypandy, neared the end of the morning shift, an explosion ripped through the P26 district.
Located near Tonypandy and Blaenclydach, with 800 men employed at the colliery, Cambrian Colliery was in many ways the epitome of the south Wales valley's industrial scenery. Scattered villages, collieries dotted among the hillside and close-knit communities were bound by family, coal and militancy.
In just a few seconds, 31 local men lay dead and 15 injured.
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Have you ever wondered where some of the words, phrases or sayings that we now use actually originated?
For example, many of us often light bonfires in our gardens. But where did the word come from? In the Middle Ages it was quite normal to dig up people's bones after 30 or 40 years in order to make room in the churchyard. Initially, the bones were put in a charnel house and when this became full they were burned on a "bonefire." The word has, over the years, been shortened to bonfire.
Ordinary Welsh people were never able to taste delicacies such as rabbit
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Phil Carradice has written a fascinating article on Welsh one-hit-wonders for the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Wales Music site. From Ricky Valence's death ballad Tell Laura I Love Her, Â to Tammy Jones' cracking version of Let Me Try Again, find out about these temporary chart toppers on Ö÷²¥´óÐã Wales Music. Read the article.
has a feature on Gil Kennedy who had always kept quiet about his wartime experiences, but a chance find has inspired a children's book based on his story. the story.
reports on the town Shotton which has a history of military bravery with three servicemen receiving Victoria crosses. the story.
has the final instalment of the final instalment of Grafton Maggs' memories of Major Humphrey Lloyd-Jones of the Parachute Regiment. the story.
has a feature on the Antiques Roadshow which is coming to St Fagans National History Museum in Cardiff on June 10. the story.
gallery of photographs of historic buildings continues to grow. at the gallery.
On Monday 8 May 1648, at the village of to the west of Cardiff, over 10,000 men clashed in a life or death contest that was, quite probably, the largest battle ever to take place on Welsh soil.
It was one of the final acts in the long running English Civil War, a conflict that eventually saw King Charles 1st executed and a republican Commonwealth under established in Britain.
was, from the beginning, an uneven contest. By 1647 it seemed as if the Civil War had come to an end but rows and disputes over unpaid wages, as well as Parliament's demand that the various generals should now stand down their armies, meant that a new conflict was inevitable.
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It is hard to believe but there are somewhere in the region of 100 islands or islets around the coast of Wales. These range from substantial landmasses such as Ynys Mon to tiny and little known places like the St Tudwal's Islands off Abersoch on the Llyn Peninsula. And most of them have fascinating histories.
Sully Island is a low hump in the Bristol Channel between Penarth and Barry. There is a prehistoric fort on the island and in the 18th century this was home to several bands of smugglers.
These days you can walk out to the island at low water but you need to be careful. When the tide turns the sea comes racing in over the causeway. Visitors are often cut off by the tide and people have been drowned trying to get back.
Bardsey Island
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