Tag: Breconshire

• The Mid Wales Railway, The Lost Spine of a Divided Nation

  

  There are places in Wales where the landscape still feels like an argument. Not in the sense of conflict, but in the way it insists upon its own logic, steep, stubborn, beautiful, and not designed to make life easy for those who live within it. Mid Wales is one of those places. It is a…

  Antony David Davies

  11/02/2026

  History

  1960s rail closures, adventure, Beeching cuts, Brecon, Breconshire, Builth Road, Cambrian Line, Connectivity, europe, Heart of Wales Line, Hereford Hay and Brecon Railway, History, Llandinam, Llanidloes, Mid Wales, Mid Wales Railway, Moat Lane Junction, North south Wales, Powys, Public transport, Radnorshire, Rail tourism, Railway history, Regional inequality, rhayader, Rural bus services, Rural Wales, Talyllyn Junction, Three Cocks Junction, Transport history, travel, Wales, Welsh economy, Welsh history, Welsh identity, Welsh infrastructure, Welsh railways, Welsh tourism

• Howell Harris (1714–1773), The Engine of the Welsh Revival and the Birth of an Evangelical Wales

  

  This article follows my recent study of Daniel Rowland (1713–1790), the great evangelist of the Welsh Methodist Revival and one of the defining architects of modern Welsh Nonconformity. If Rowland represents the revival at its most visible, the pulpit phenomenon, the national preacher, the man whose sermons drew thousands, then Howell Harris must be understood…

  Antony David Davies

  08/02/2026

  Religion

  18th century Wales, bible, Brecknockshire, Breconshire, Calvinistic Methodists, chapel societies, christianity, church, Church of England in Wales, Daniel Rowland, evangelical revival, History, Howell Harris, jesus, lay preaching, Llangeitho, Methodist Revival, Nonconformist Wales, religious societies, revival preaching, Sunday School Movement, Talgarth, Trefeca, Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, Welsh chapel history, Welsh culture and identity, Welsh evangelicalism, Welsh hymnody, Welsh language and religion, Welsh Methodist Revival, Welsh moral culture, Welsh Nonconformity, Welsh preaching, Welsh Protestantism, Welsh religious history, Welsh Social History, Welsh spirituality, William Williams Pantycelyn