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The Hardest Button to Button

Editorial by Gwen Davies for the December 2018 Edition of New Welsh Reader.

Citizen Thinker Ed

Editorial of the 1 September 2018 issue of the New Welsh Reader.

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The Woman at the Well

When I got out at the station I found the only way of getting to the house was on foot. Jameson, a little man with a thin moustache and turn-down collar, took me first of all a three-mile climb on a rough road; then we crossed a colliery tramway...

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Reclaiming Gay Rural Wales

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Love Welsh Poetry, A Journey Like No Other

Kaja Brown commends an innovative trail of love poems to celebrate the Welsh Valentines season at Ceredigion Museum in Aberystwyth

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