Tag: Merionethshire

• My Political Heritage, Wales in My Blood, and the Quiet Lessons of Ancestry

  

  Most people assume political identity is something you acquire, a set of opinions shaped by the news cycle, social media, and the dominant arguments of the moment. In Wales, that assumption rarely survives contact with the deeper story. Because Welsh political culture is not merely contemporary. It is historical. It is inherited. It is shaped…

  Antony David Davies

  06/02/2026

  Culture

  books, Chapel culture, Civic life, County councils, Cymru Fydd, Devolution, Dyfi Valley, england, family history, Genealogy, History, Liberal Party, Llanwrin, llyfnant-valley, Machynlleth, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire, Nonconformity, Parish councils, Plaid Cymru, Political heritage, Political history, Rural Wales, Wales, Welsh history, Welsh identity, Welsh language, Welsh nationalism, Welsh politics

• Keeping the flame: Why I joined the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion — and why it matters for Wales

  

  Wales is a nation woven together by memory and identity. Its story is told not only through the slate quarries, chapel pulpits, and small farms of our landscape, but also through the societies and institutions that have sustained Welshness far beyond our own borders. One of the most remarkable of these is the Honourable Society…

  Antony David Davies

  16/07/2025

  Articles, Culture

  belonging, chapels, cultural stewardship, Cymmrodorion, Eisteddfod, family history, memory and identity, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire, National Library of Wales, Wales, Welsh culture, Welsh diaspora, Welsh identity, Welsh language