Tag: Wales

18th December 2017 Science and Innovation Network

Sir Emyr Jones Parry

Sir Emyr Jones Parry

President of the Learned Society of Wales

Wales and the World: Higher Education and the Learned Society of Wales

In 1870, Frances Hoggan qualified as a doctor of medicine in Zurich University, the second woman to qualify in Europe. She was born in 1843, the daughter of a curate in Brecon, mid Wales. Wanting to study medicine, she had to go to Zurich because women in Britain were prohibited from sitting professional examinations in […]

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5th March 2017 Skopje, North Macedonia

Lt Col Richard Parry

Lt Col Richard Parry

Defence Attache to Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia

From Wales to Macedonia: Dojran Stories

Each year on 1 March we Welsh celebrate St David’s Day, which is Wales’ national day. Usually we present facts promoting Wales, about tourism, trade, or creativity. Probably many of you know that the World’s first £1 million cheque was signed in Cardiff, or that canned beer was invented in Wales. Probably many of you […]

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1st March 2017 Holy See

Stephen Townsend

Stephen Townsend

Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy to the Holy See

St David and the Church in Wales

Today is St. David’s Day, a special day for the United Kingdom, and for Wales in particular. St David is the best known of the Welsh saints. It is often said that Pope Gregory the Great sent St Augustine in 595 to bring Christianity to Britain.  But that is not correct.  After the Romans left […]

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1st March 2015

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by Greg Dorey

Diplomat

Dragons and daffodils…..

Today is 1 March and the Welsh flag, Y Ddraig Goch, was flying outside the British Embassy as we mark St David’s Day. And several of us are wearing dragon or daffodil badges in our lapels or as cufflinks to recognise the patron saint of Wales. The date marks the anniversary of the death of […]

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4th November 2014

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by Carolyn Browne

Former ambassador to Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan Armed Forces members took part at Cambrian patrol in Wales

Guest blog by Mark Wentworth, British Defence Attaché to Kazakhstan. Eight members of the Kazakh Armed Forces recently participated in the internationally renowned Exercise CAMBRIAN PATROL that takes place annually in Wales, United Kingdom.  The aim of the exercise is to “provide a challenging patrol environment in order to enhance operational capability”. During the exercise, […]

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3rd September 2014 Beirut, Lebanon

Tom Fletcher

by Tom Fletcher

Former British Ambassador to Lebanon

Wisdom Amid Adversity?: NATO Comes to Wales

With a formidable to-do list for the world’s leaders, the 2014 NATO Summit takes place in Wales on 4/5 September. This will be the largest ever gathering of international leaders in Britain. In preparation, some diplomats have even been learning Welsh (Matthew Barzun clip). Having been to a few, I’ve sometimes been sceptical about the […]

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3rd September 2014 London, UK

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by Philip Parham

UK Commonwealth Envoy, former British Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates

Nato summit comes at a pivotal moment

This month marks the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. That appalling conflict – often still known as the Great War – devastated a generation. My mother’s father, born in 1899, was one of nine grandsons of his mother’s father. Of those nine, six fell in that war. My grandfather himself, aged […]

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3rd September 2014

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by Paul Johnston

Ambassador to Ireland

NATO’s Summit in Wales: ‘Building Stability in an Unpredictable World’

On Thursday 4 and Friday 5 September the UK will host the NATO Summit in Newport, Wales. It will be the largest gathering of international leaders ever to take place in Britain. It will also be the first UK-hosted NATO Summit since the London meeting in 1990, which marked the end of the Cold War. […]

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