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A Christmas in the Victorian Welsh Uplands
In the high country of mid and north Wales, where the hills folded into one another like great, weathered blankets and the lanes were little more than tracks worn by generations of hooves and boots, Christmas in the Victorian era arrived quietly. There was no sense of sudden abundance, no dramatic break from the rhythm…
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19th century Wales, Agrarian Wales, books, Calennig, christmas, Christmas in Wales, Cultural memory, fiction, history, Mari Lwyd, Mid Wales, Nonconformist Wales, North Wales, Noson Gyflaith, Plygain, Rural communities, Rural winter life, Upland farming, Victorian Christmas, Victorian domestic life, Victorian Wales, Welsh Chapels, Welsh Christmas traditions, Welsh countryside, Welsh farmhouse life, Welsh folk traditions, Welsh rural life, Welsh Social History, Welsh uplands, writing -
Why I Left The Range
By Antony David Davies, FRSA FRAS AFRHistS MCMI MIoL When I finally received the documents from my Subject Access Request, this is how The Range described my departure: “Anthony(sp) left our store with immediate effect, with no communication to anybody in store, only texting the store manager, just left his store keys on the manager’s…
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Antony David Davies, assistant manager experience, British retail, corporate culture, employee wellbeing, ethical workplace, family, fiction, health and safety inspection, integrity at work, leadership failure, leaving The Range, life, management accountability, management dysfunction, mental-health, moral courage, moral leadership, refusing to lie, retail leadership, retail management culture, retail sector, retail whistleblower, SAR disclosure, standing up for integrity, subject access request, The Range, toxic management, toxic workplace, walking out with dignity, whistleblowing, Why I Left The Range, workplace bullying, workplace ethics, workplace truth, writing -
Teenage Years on the Doldowlod Hall Estate
The mid-1990s were years of transition in rural Wales. Farming incomes were under strain, country houses were redefining their purpose, and politics in Britain seemed poised between the certainties of Thatcherism and the coming landslide of New Labour. For me, those years were marked most vividly by the Doldowlod Hall estate on the upper reaches…
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A Tribute to My Uncle Glyn Davies (1943–2025)
Uncle Glyn with me in my younger, hairier days — clearly paying close attention. From my earliest childhood memories, Uncle Glyn was a steady and inspiring presence in my life. I remember the many visits to see him in Corris, where he lived with my nain — visits filled with warmth, conversation, and a quiet…
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