Handball: The Story of Wales’ First National SportToday there is one surviving handball court in Wales, in the village of Nelson in the Rhymney Valley. But travel back two centuries and the game was a national obsession, with people travelling from far and wide to watch thrilling matches between the sporting heroes of the day. Fortunes were won and lost through side stakes and illegal gambling, and countless bylaws were put in place to try to stop the game spreading to any likely looking blank wall.

Nicola Field’s Over the Rainbow confronts the political contradictions in the LGBT+ movement and contains one of the earliest first-hand accounts from the frontlines of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners

in response to his concern at the lack of positive role models for young people on the cusp of coming out

She has published three previous collections: The Shadow Keeper (1997)

on a Greek island

Svetlana Den'gina

(By the end of WWII the Corporation was already broadcasting in forty-five languages

the early shaper of Black Studies in the United States

Described by her translator Richard McKane as 'a poet of all seasons

Kristin Dimitrova was born in Sofia in 1963

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which are nonetheless poignant

“Disarming poetry