Gerald Williams grew up at Yr Ysgwrn - the home of World War One poet Hedd Wyn Gerald Williams, who was at the forefront of keeping alive the memory of his uncle and World War One poet Hedd Wyn, has ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The names Passchendaele, the Somme and Mametz Wood stand as grim sentinels, forever bound to the unimaginable carnage of the first world war. Almost 500,000 men were killed ...

Hedd Wyn won international acclaim as one of Wales’ greatest poets. And today – in time for the St David’s Day celebrations – it has been announced that his family farm and bardic chairs have been ...

The names Passchendaele, the Somme and Mametz Wood stand as grim sentinels, forever bound to the unimaginable carnage of the First World War. Almost 500,000 men were killed in three months at ...

The Somme, Amiens, Mametz Wood - names synonymous with the tragic loss of World War One. Another is Passchendaele - the Third Battle of Ypres - with nearly half-a-million men on both sides killed in ...

Tributes have been paid to the nephew of Hedd Wyn who became lifelong custodian of the Welsh poet’s Black Chair in the family home. Gerald Williams, 92, entertained and informed generations of Hedd ...

A famous Eisteddfod chair won by a poet killed in the fields of Flanders which came to symbolise the devastating impact of the First World War has been recreated using a 3D printer. Hedd Wyn was ...

Yr Ysgwrn is a Grade II* listed building near Trawsfynydd and houses the bard's famous 'Black Chair' posthumously awarded to him in 1917 for his poem Yr Arwr (The Hero). Hedd Wyn had entered his poem ...

WHEN Ellis Humphrey Evans was born on January 13, 1887, the first of his parents’ fourteen children, it’s difficult to imagine anyone would have thought he would be one of Wales’ best known poets ...

Image caption, Gerald Williams grew up at Yr Ysgwrn - the home of World War One poet Hedd Wyn Gerald Williams, who was at the forefront of keeping alive the memory of his uncle and World War One poet ...