Tune in to BBC One Wales’s Weatherman Walking at 7.30pm Friday night to watch Derek the Weather’s journey along the Wales Coast Path from Little Haven to Solva, plus a feature presented by me in the middle, all about work at an ancient coastal hillfort in Pembrokeshire. Filmed last summer, I speak to National Trust […]
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Weatherman Walking: The Welsh Coast returns!
Now feels timely to tell you about a little village in Derbyshire which selflessly self-isolated in the 17th Century in order to save lives from the Black Death. I’m currently self-isolating as we’re expecting our first child in May. And I feel we’re lucky in this day and age to have an amazing, free health […]
Another exciting week this week, as on World Book Day, just in time for International Women’s Day, I launched a book I’ve been working on all about amazing Welsh women past and present. And it all started when I found out about some amazing women lost in the depths of time from Beaumaris Castle (see […]
Last week I was honoured to attend the world premiere of a new film. It’s all about the 200th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of the Menai suspension bridge, Porthaethwy (Menai Bridge town), Anglesey. The reason I was invited to the film showing? Because I’m the presenter! You can watch the film […]
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On this morning, 160 years ago, most of Western Britain woke up to destruction. The Great Storm, the worst in the 19th Century, had hit our shores and taken many poor souls with it; many of whom were out at sea in boats and ships when the hurricane-force winds took hold. The Great Storm of […]
A couple of months ago I was deighted to be asked to help with a promotional film at Gladstone’s Library for an exciting series of foodie events coming up in my home of north east Wales, filmed by Eastwood Media. The Taste North East Wales events range from whitewater rafting for your dinner, a medieval […]
This week I’ll be at the launch of Wales’s first ever Kids’ History Festival, at Caerphilly Castle. Wales plays host to an array of music, art and literature festivals every summer — and this August, a celebration of heritage will join the programme as Cadw presents a new history festival for families… Targeted at children […]
I grew up at a place known as the gap of the graves, or the gap of the dead. To some of you, this may conjure up images of Indiana Jones-esque zombies and other spooky horror stories. In fact, history has its own terrific tales to tell. The gap refers to a gap in Offa’s […]
