Since then, carriage on digital cable, satellite and digital terrestrial has introduced Channel 4 to Welsh homes where it is now universally available.

It is not until the 13th-century French prose romances, including the Lancelot-Grail and the Post-Vulgate Cycle, that Camelot began to supersede Caerleon, and even then, many descriptive details applied to Camelot derive from Geoffrey's earlier grand depiction of the Welsh town.

The Welsh could also count on semi-official fraternal aid from their fellow Celts in the then independent Brittany and Scotland.

Hell was then raised by his mother, who came from Methodists of Welsh and English ancestry.

Early in his reign he conducted two campaigns against the " West Welsh ", first in 813 and then again at Gafulford in 825.

Edward and Harold were then able to impose vassallage on some Welsh princes.

Like their English and Welsh counterparts, then, the parks in Scotland are effectively " managed landscapes ", and are classified as IUCN Category V Protected Landscapes because of this.

Henry of Lancaster was then sent to Wales in order to fetch the King and the younger Despenser ; on 16 November he with Welsh rebels caught Edward, Despenser and their soldiers in the open country near Tonyrefail, where a plaque now commemorates the event.

According to legend, the king had promised the Welsh that he would name " a prince born in Wales, who did not speak a word of English " and then produced his infant son to their surprise ( and presumable chagrin ).

He is traditionally associated with the codification of Welsh law at a council which he called at Whitland, the laws from then on usually being called the " Laws of Hywel ".

Also in that year he and other young Welsh Liberals founded a monthly paper Udgorn Rhyddid ( Bugle of Freedom ) and won on appeal to the Divisional Court of Queen's Bench the Llanfrothen burial case ; this established the right of Nonconformists to be buried according to their own denominational rites in parish burial grounds, a right given by the Burial Act 1880 that had up to then been ignored by the Anglican clergy.

Welsh left Ainslie Park High School when he was 16 and then completed a City and Guilds course in electrical engineering.

He then went to the Welsh border and forced the Welsh princes to accept his authority and pay an unusually high level of tribute.

The Royal Welsh ( The Royal Welch Fusiliers, 23rd of Foot ) was then the name of the first battalion of the new regiment, which still recruited across Wales.

The eye-witness Richard Clough, a Welsh Protestant merchant then in Antwerp, saw: " all the churches, chapels and houses of religion utterly defaced, and no kind of thing left whole within them, but broken and utterly destroyed, being done after such order and by so few folks that it is to be marvelled at.

Medieval Welsh poetry refers to her as possessing the cauldron of Poetic Inspiration ( Awen ) and the Tale of Taliesin recounts her swallowing her servant Gwion Bach who is then reborn through her as the poet Taliesin.

The commercial production of Welsh slate had begun in 1820 and the mobility which the canals and then the railways made possible meant that other materials became readily available.

Until then The Prince Edward will be Earl of Wessex and Viscount Severn, the latter title reflecting his bride's Welsh origins.

His fascination with Welsh folk music led to an investigation of the history of the music and particularly the harpists who would often accompany then.

Joseph and David Richards convinced 104 Welsh immigrant families to migrate from the Welsh Tract in Pennsylvania to work in a rolling mill then co-owned by Thomas Walker.

Next came the Welsh Review, published by Gwyn Jones, first in 1939 and then between 1944 and 1948.

This included The Welsh Review ( 1939 – 1948 ), which later became Dock Leaves and then The Anglo-Welsh Review ( 1949 – 1987 ) and continues ( from 1988 ) as the New Welsh Review.

In 465, Hengest and Esc fought against the Welsh in the Battle of Wippedesfleot, probably near Ebbsfleet.

In the year 473, the final entry in the Chronicle mentioning Hengist or Horsa, Hengist and Esc are recorded as having fought " the Welsh ", having taken " immense booty " and the Welsh having " fled from the English like fire ".

The Historia Brittonum, a 9th-century Latin historical compilation attributed in some late manuscripts to a Welsh cleric called Nennius, lists twelve battles that Arthur fought.

One school of thought, citing entries in the Historia Brittonum ( History of the Britons ) and Annales Cambriae ( Welsh Annals ), sees Arthur as a genuine historical figure, a Romano-British leader who fought against the invading Anglo-Saxons sometime in the late 5th to early 6th century.

One famous Welsh longbow victory was on 22 June 1402 when Owain Glyndŵr fought a battle against the English at Bryn Glas.

There came two eaorlmen to Britain, Cerdic and Cynric his son, with five ships, to a place called Cerdicesora, on the same day they fought the Welsh ", but the historian F. M. Stenton gave evidence of doubled entries in the Chronicle, which suggests an early 6th century date for the arrival of the ancestor of the Wessex ruling kinship.

While most of the men of the 1st Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot ( 1 / 24 ) were recruited from the industrial towns and agricultural classes of England, principally from Birmingham and adjacent southwest counties, only 10 soldiers of the 1 / 24 that fought in the battle were Welsh.

A large tradition seems to have once surrounded the Battle of the Trees, a mythological conflict fought between the sons of Dôn and the forces of Annwn, the Welsh Otherworld.

The fact that the search for the body is connected to Henry II and Edward I, both kings who fought major Welsh wars, has had scholars suggest that propaganda may have played a part as well.

The Battle of Stalling Down was fought near Cowbridge when the large English army of King Henry IV of England met a combined force of French and Welsh soldiers under Owain Glyndŵr in 1403.

Historia Brittonum, an ancient history of Britain traditionally attributed to Nennius, a ninth-century Welsh monk, records that Arthur, the war leader of the Britons fought his first battle against the Anglo-Saxons at the mouth of the River Glein.

Arthur Horner, the Communist leader of the Welsh miners, fought off attempts to found a similar union on his patch.

During the reign of Henry IV Humphrey received a scholar's education, while his elder brothers fought on the Welsh and Scottish borders.

Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Picton GCB ( August 1758 – 18 June 1815 ) was a Welsh British Army officer who fought in a number of campaigns for Britain, and rose to the rank of lieutenant general.

The Battle of Maserfield ( or Maserfeld, " marsh ( border ) field "; Welsh: Maes Cogwy ), was fought on 5 August 641 or 642, between the Anglo-Saxon kings Oswald of Northumbria and Penda of Mercia, ending in Oswald's defeat, death, and dismemberment.

Halfdan went back to Deira and fought the Picts and the Strathclyde Welsh to secure his northern kingdom.

The Battle of Dun Nechtain or Battle of Nechtansmere ( Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Dhùn Neachdain, Old Irish: Dún Nechtain, Old Welsh: Linn Garan, Old English: Nechtansmere ) was fought between the Picts, led by King Bridei Mac Bili, and the Northumbrians, led by King Ecgfrith on 20 May 685.

In 825 a battle was fought between the " Welsh ", presumably those of Cornwall, and the Anglo-Saxons.

* There is some evidence from Welsh Chroniclers – using place name analysis – that King Arthur was a prince of the northern Welsh-speakers of Strathclyde and that he fought his last battle against the invading Saxons at Cambuslang.

He fought in the Welsh wars, 1288 to 1294, when the Welsh castle of Castell y Bere ( near modern day Towyn ) was besieged by Madog ap Llywelyn.

Other points Jones fought for included a first-time buyer's credit, a reconfiguration of the Welsh National Health Care service, and a 3 % annual reduction in carbon emissions by 2011 in areas of devolved competence.

The British 53rd ( Welsh ) Infantry Division was a Territorial Army division that fought in both World Wars.

It is true that II did not cross swords with I, but the elements had done their work for Welsh ; the stars in their courses had fought against the pride of England and humbled it to the very dust.