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Articles: Mission accomplished
19 June 2012[image: Tynewydd Disaster]
The Chilean mine rescue of 2010 reminded many of a similar incident in the Rhondda Valleys over 130 years before. On the 11th April 1877 Tynewydd Colliery became flooded by water, triggering a desperate rescue effort to save the fourteen miners trapped underground.
Galleries: The Llanvaches Roman Coin Hoard
15 July 2011[image: Llanvaches coin hoard]
Get up close and personal with Roman rulers, their wives and girlfriends in one of the finest hoards of silver coins discovered from Roman Britain in the second century A.D.
Articles: The Welsh in Antarctica
29 October 2010[image: The Welsh in Antarctica]
One of the most poignant Welsh stories from Scott's 1910-13 British Antarctic Expedition is that of Petty Officer Edgar Evans from Rhossili in Gower, one of the team of five who made it to the South Pole with Scott himself. Evans was the first to die on the return march from the South Pole.
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Articles: Mission accomplished
19 June 2012[image: Tynewydd Disaster]
The Chilean mine rescue of 2010 reminded many of a similar incident in the Rhondda Valleys over 130 years before. On the 11th April 1877 Tynewydd Colliery became flooded by water, triggering a desperate rescue effort to save the fourteen miners trapped underground.
Articles: The Welsh in Antarctica
29 October 2010[image: The Welsh in Antarctica]
One of the most poignant Welsh stories from Scott's 1910-13 British Antarctic Expedition is that of Petty Officer Edgar Evans from Rhossili in Gower, one of the team of five who made it to the South Pole with Scott himself. Evans was the first to die on the return march from the South Pole.
Articles: Welsh miners digging for victory on the Western Front
1 October 2009[image: Medal awarded to Captain (later Major) Arthur Edwards. ]
Captain Arthur Edwards from Blaenafon in south Wales oversaw the explosion of the first British mine on the Western Front in March 1915.
Galleries
Galleries: The Llanvaches Roman Coin Hoard
15 July 2011[image: Llanvaches coin hoard]
Get up close and personal with Roman rulers, their wives and girlfriends in one of the finest hoards of silver coins discovered from Roman Britain in the second century A.D.