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Medieval history

Co-creating new pasts and new futures: the Roman ‘Diff Fusion Project

Posted on 5 February 2024 by Keir Waddington

CAER Heritage Centre launch with community members and First Minister Mark Drakeford Hello, I’m Dave Wyatt and I have a slightly unusual role because I am a Reader in Civic […]

Cymro a’i Geiniog / A Welsh King and his Coin

Posted on 2 November 2023 by Keir Waddington

Doedd brenhinoedd y Cymry ddim yn rhai i roi eu henwau ar geiniogau – fel arfer. Mae un eithriad: ceiniog sy’n dwyn yr enw Hoƿæl Rex. Hywel ap Cadell (Hywel […]

History and Trauma in Twelfth-Century Jerusalem

History and Trauma in Twelfth-Century Jerusalem

Posted on 17 October 2023 by Bronach Kane

Writing in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem sometime in the late 1180s or early 1190s, with the recent trauma of the Holy City’s loss to the Muslim sultan, Salah al-Din, […]

The Treaty of London (1373) and the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance

Posted on 6 September 2023 by Bronach Kane

16 June 2023 marked the 650th anniversary of the conclusion of the Treaty of London, one of the four principal treaties that mark the formation of the Anglo-Portuguese alliance – […]