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Welsh History Podcast

194 Episodes

27 minutes | May 22, 2023
Episode 191 The Legal Pirate Captain Morgan
Captain Morgan a farmer's son from South Wales rose from farmer to plantation owner, assemblyman and governor in Jamaica. He was largely able to do this thanks to his massive privateer campaigns in late 1660s. Welsh History Podcast is a proud member of the Evergreen Podcast Network. You can support the podcast at patreon.com/WelshHistory Get some Welsh History Podcast Merch at teepublic.com/stores/welsh-history-podcast Celtic Impulse Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
25 minutes | May 8, 2023
Episode 190 Pirates of the Welsh Coast
In this episode we touch on the expansion of piracy and the legal definition of Privateers and some of the earliest Pirates of the Welsh Coast. Welsh History Podcast is a proud member of the Evergreen Podcast Network. You can support the podcast at patreon.com/WelshHistory Get some Welsh History Podcast Merch at teepublic.com/stores/welsh-history-podcast Celtic Impulse Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
25 minutes | Apr 24, 2023
Episode 189 Slavery and Wales
The start of trade between the colonies and Britain brings with it the rise in the African slave trade. This is a small snippet on the Welsh influence at the end of the 17th century. Welsh History Podcast is a proud member of the Evergreen Podcast Network. You can support the podcast at patreon.com/WelshHistory Get some Welsh History Podcast Merch at teepublic.com/stores/welsh-history-podcast Celtic Impulse Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
26 minutes | Apr 10, 2023
Episode 188 Welsh Culture Under Pressure
As the 18th century began many doubted Welsh could survive or that it's culture would thrive in the country. The arrival of the printing press, education, and the growing literacy of the lower classes meant that far from dying it was starting a revival. Welsh History Podcast is a proud member of the Evergreen Podcast Network. You can support the podcast at patreon.com/WelshHistory Get some Welsh History Podcast Merch at teepublic.com/stores/welsh-history-podcast Celtic Impulse Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
24 minutes | Mar 27, 2023
Episode 187 The Glorious Revolution
In 3 years James went from King to pariah in very short order and at the centre of the issue was his version of Christian belief. Welsh History Podcast is a proud member of the Evergreen Podcast Network. You can support the podcast at patreon.com/WelshHistory Get some Welsh History Podcast Merch at teepublic.com/stores/welsh-history-podcast Celtic Impulse Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
26 minutes | Mar 13, 2023
Episode 186 Religious Instability and Paranoia
A large figure in the Welsh Puritan movement continues his protest of the new regime as religious persecution heats up in Wales. Welsh History Podcast is a proud member of the Evergreen Podcast Network. You can support the podcast at patreon.com/WelshHistory Get some Welsh History Podcast Merch at teepublic.com/stores/welsh-history-podcast Celtic Impulse Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
35 minutes | Feb 27, 2023
Episode 185 Struggle For Recognition
In this episode we are going to discuss the role of Women in history and talk about four examples from early modern Wales of figures in Welsh history. And why the Women of the era were trying to buck their purported place in it. Welsh History Podcast is a proud member of the Evergreen Podcast Network. You can support the podcast at patreon.com/WelshHistory Get some Welsh History Podcast Merch at teepublic.com/stores/welsh-history-podcast Celtic Impulse Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
24 minutes | Feb 13, 2023
Episode 184 The Return of the King
Cromwell's considers taking the crown, but dies instead. Prince Charles returns and is now King Charles II as the Stuart Restoration gains support. Welsh History Podcast is a proud member of the Evergreen Podcast Network. You can support the podcast at patreon.com/WelshHistory Get some Welsh History Podcast Merch at teepublic.com/stores/welsh-history-podcast Celtic Impulse Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
23 minutes | Jan 30, 2023
Episode 183 Welsh Education
One of the great tenants of the Puritan faith is the education of the poor and creating literate readers of the bible. They seek to spread public education to Wales with middling effect. Welsh History Podcast is a proud member of the Evergreen Podcast Network. You can support the podcast at patreon.com/WelshHistory Get some Welsh History Podcast Merch at teepublic.com/stores/welsh-history-podcast Celtic Impulse Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
26 minutes | Jan 16, 2023
Episode 182 Converting Wales
The Puritans try their hand at converting Wales. The Quakers arrive in less hostile circumstances. Welsh History Podcast is a proud member of the Evergreen Podcast Network. You can support the podcast at patreon.com/WelshHistory Get some Welsh History Podcast Merch at teepublic.com/stores/welsh-history-podcast Celtic Impulse Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
28 minutes | Jan 2, 2023
Episode 181 Cromwell’s Contentious Administration
Cromwell and his form of governance starts to take on a decidedly monarchial look as the Protector and his Army take control. Welsh History Podcast is a proud member of the Evergreen Podcast Network. You can support the podcast at patreon.com/WelshHistory Get some Welsh History Podcast Merch at teepublic.com/stores/welsh-history-podcast Celtic Impulse Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
27 minutes | Dec 12, 2022
Episode 180 The Bureaucratic End of the Ring of Iron
In 1649 one of the most monumental decisions in Welsh History was taken by Parliament, the destruction and abandonment of the castles of Wales as fortifications. Welsh History Podcast is a proud member of the Evergreen Podcast Network. You can support the podcast at patreon.com/WelshHistory Get some Welsh History Podcast Merch at teepublic.com/stores/welsh-history-podcast Celtic Impulse Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
9 minutes | Nov 28, 2022
Winterlude
This week is a short episode talking about the podcast as a whole before we turn to the end of the Civil War. Welsh History Podcast is a proud member of the Evergreen Podcast Network. You can support the podcast at patreon.com/WelshHistory Get some Welsh History Podcast Merch at teepublic.com/stores/welsh-history-podcast Celtic Impulse Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
25 minutes | Nov 14, 2022
Episode 179 Failure of Hope
With the King's chances steadily getting worse by the day small successes in south Wales give off a mirage of progress and false hope. Source: British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate Website - http://bcw-project.org/ Welsh History Podcast is a proud member of the Evergreen Podcast Network. You can support the podcast at patreon.com/WelshHistory Get some Welsh History Podcast Merch at teepublic.com/stores/welsh-history-podcast Celtic Impulse Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
26 minutes | Oct 31, 2022
Episode 178 The War in Wales 1644
The royalists seek to expand their control in Wales only for there advances to fall flat and territorial losses leaving the area completely unable to rally to the Royalist cause. Source: British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate Website - http://bcw-project.org/ Welsh History Podcast is a proud member of the Evergreen Podcast Network. You can support the podcast at patreon.com/WelshHistory Get some Welsh History Podcast Merch at teepublic.com/stores/welsh-history-podcast Celtic Impulse Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
34 minutes | Oct 17, 2022
Episode 177 It's Treason Then?
Wales turns out for Charles as they pick their king, the British king over the English nobility in the English Civil War with dire consequences for some. Welsh History Podcast is a proud member of the Evergreen Podcast Network. You can support the podcast at patreon.com/WelshHistory Get some Welsh History Podcast Merch at teepublic.com/stores/welsh-history-podcast Celtic Impulse Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
24 minutes | Oct 3, 2022
Episode 176 Our Known Fidelity
As Parliamentarians and the King begin to choose sides, the Welsh are being forced into making choices of their own. Their deep loyalty to the monarch is being challenged. Welsh History Podcast is a proud member of the Evergreen Podcast Network. You can support the podcast at patreon.com/WelshHistory Get some Welsh History Podcast Merch at teepublic.com/stores/welsh-history-podcast Celtic Impulse Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
30 minutes | Sep 19, 2022
Episode 175 Charles and the Idea Revolution
Charles I is the new King of Britain. His influence on the ideas of monarchy and the development of printed news begins to change how the world is understood for an increasingly literate upper class. Welsh History Podcast is a proud member of the Evergreen Podcast Network. You can support the podcast at patreon.com/WelshHistory Get some Welsh History Podcast Merch at teepublic.com/stores/welsh-history-podcast Celtic Impulse Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
25 minutes | Sep 5, 2022
Episode 174 Welsh Political Power Players
Politics influenced greatly the Stuarts in the midst of great change in England and Wales. We discuss why the Parliament became so important for Welsh representation. You can find everything we do at DistractionsMedia.com You can support the podcast at patreon.com/WelshHistory Get some Welsh History Podcast Merch at teepublic.com/stores/welsh-history-podcast Celtic Impulse Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
25 minutes | Aug 22, 2022
Episode 173 Stuarts and the Ambitious Men
At the beginning of the 17th Century a new dynasty rose to the throne and a number of Welsh people rose to greater and greater heights. We talk about a few of them. You can find everything we do at DistractionsMedia.com You can support the podcast at patreon.com/WelshHistory Get some Welsh History Podcast Merch at teepublic.com/stores/welsh-history-podcast Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100297Artist: http://incompetech.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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