Rob Skinner

Beddgelert and its legendary hound

If you visit the lovely village of Beddgelert in Eryri (Snowdonia), you can’t miss the signs…

Frongoch isn’t a big place. But some believe this tiny Welsh village played a significant part…

My son Owen is in the middle of his A level exams, which has brought back…

I was thrilled to discover that Victoria Owens had written a biography of one of my…

Gallipoli was one of the most catastrophic Allied campaigns of the first world war. It was…

I have a soft spot for Southampton Football Club that goes back 50 years. In May…

Voters in the suburbs of Wigan in north west England will choose Britain’s next prime minister…

The London Underground was the world’s first underground urban railway, opened in 1863. For most people,…

In 1999, the Welsh language current affairs magazine Barn carried a striking front page proclaiming –…

History can repeat itself. Half a century ago this week Cardiff City won promotion to the…