Welsh Culture and History
Begin exploring with the following sites:
NINNAU & Y DRYCH - Our North American Welsh Newspaper, providing complete coverage of the North American Welsh community.
Welsh County logo
Welsh Country - Welsh Country online seeks to celebrate Wales’ diversity by allowing talented writers and photographers to tell their stories by their favourite means. Our regular features cover Welsh villages, history, wild life, walking and gardening.
Casgliad Y Werin Cymru
(People's Collection Wales)
People's Collection of Wales is a website full of fascinating photographs, sound recordings, documents, videos and stories about the history and heritage of Wales and its people, it is the first of its kind in Wales.
Smithsonian Cultural Connections with Wales - at the Smithsonian, Washington DC, including the 2007 Folklife festival which featured Wales.
Arrays of images representing "all things Welsh" arranged in categories, linked to background information about each. The most comprehensive categories are, rather fittingly, Welsh writers and Welsh musicians.
The choir is based in North East Wales a few miles from Llangollen - home of the International Musical Eisteddfod. Their series of five Voices of the Valley albums achieved great success in Britain. Their sixth Voices of the Valley album is titled, Voices of the Valley -Echoes. (YouTube samples here).
Great Plains Welsh Heritage Project
(Wymore, NE) An active organization and museum that preserves, interprets and celebrates the history and contributions of Welsh pioneers on the North American prairies, to further public understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity.
When coal was king in the Welsh valleys of the Rhondda
A pictorial history of the Rhondda valley collieries.