Tag: FRSA

• Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft: The Gentleman Who Inspired a Historian

  When I trace the beginnings of my love of history, I always return to one figure — Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft of Stokesay Court, the elderly baronet who, quite unknowingly, set a child on the path to becoming a historian. I met him in the great Shropshire house that dominated my early world. He would summon…

  antonydaviesfrsa

  15/10/2025

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  20th century biography, AFRHistS, Anglo-Jewish heritage, Antony David Davies, art, biographical writing, books, British biography, British historians, childhood inspiration, Edwardian England, Elizabeth Longford, English country houses, FRSA, Gladstone biographer, historian memoir, historians of character, historical reflection, history, inspiration, intellectual formation, literary biography, Ludlow history, mentorship, moral history, New College Oxford, Onibury Church, rural gentry, Shropshire heritage, Shropshire history, Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft, Stokesay Court, Victorian and Edwardian era, writing

• When the Last Prince Hid in Our Hills: A Family Legend That Still Haunts Wales

  By Antony David Davies FRSA High in the forgotten uplands of Montgomeryshire, where bracken folds over ancient sheep paths and the hills roll unbroken into silence, there stands a farmhouse my family still speaks of in reverent tones. Its name is Esgair Llywelyn — Llywelyn’s Ridge. Even now, the place endures. Weathered, empty, but defiantly…

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  29/07/2025

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  Aberedw, Antony David Davies, Builth, Cilmeri 1282, Cultural survival, Dulas Valley, Dyfi Valley, Edward I, Elinor Bennett, Esgair Llywelyn, family history, Family legend, Forgotten voices, FRSA, Heritage preservation, Hidden history, Historical memory, Historical storytelling, Identity and place, Legacy of the past, Llanwrin, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Lost Wales, Machynlleth, Medieval Wales, Mid Wales, Montgomeryshire, National memory, Nonconformist Wales, Owain Glyndŵr, Powys heritage, Prince of Wales, Resistance and survival, Rural Wales, Welsh ancestry, Welsh culture, Welsh diaspora, Welsh history, Welsh identity, Welsh legends, Welsh nationalism, Welsh rebellion, Welsh storytelling