
GrumpyOldMan
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GrumpyOldMan
@BaptainCaptain
curing happiness since 1974






















🏴 Modern Wales was written down 600 years before it existed.📜 🇬🇧 By a Welshman who vanished into the mountains 🏔️ On 16 September 1400, Owain Glyndŵr raised his banner at Glyndyfrdwy and declared himself Prince of Wales 👑 The Welsh came to him from every valley 🐉 In 1402, he won the Battle of Mynydd Hyddgen ⚔️ By 1404, most of Wales was his 🏰 That year, in Machynlleth, he did something no Welsh prince had ever done. He called a parliament 🏛️ 4 envoys from every commote in Wales. Envoys from France 🇫🇷 from Spain 🇪🇸 from Scotland 🏴 stood beside them. Wales had a parliament. And a prince. 2 years later, at Pennal, he wrote to the King of France ✍️ It is called the Pennal Letter. It set out what Wales should be 📜 An independent Welsh church ⛪ 2 Welsh universities. One in the north. One in the south 🎓 The Welsh language recognised in law 🐉 Welsh people governing themselves 🏛️ All of it written down. On 31 March 1406. This is what Wales would become. The English crown sent army after army ⚔️ Aberystwyth fell in 1408. Harlech fell in 1409. His wife was taken. His daughter Catrin. His grandchildren. They died in the Tower of London 🏰 By 1412, Glyndŵr was alone. He vanished into the mountains 🏔️ He was never captured. He was never betrayed. For 600 years, Wales had no parliament. The Welsh language was punished out of children. But the Pennal Letter survived 📜 Held in the Archives Nationales in Paris 🇫🇷 Waiting. In 1999, the Welsh had their assembly back 🏛️ In 2020, it was named the Senedd. The parliament of Wales 🐉 The Welsh language is now official. 2 universities for the north and the south 🎓 All that Owain wrote down. 616 years later. He hadn't failed. He had been early. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ He is one of many. The Welsh have been writing themselves up for centuries 🐉 Charter by charter. Parliament by parliament 📜🏛️ From one Welsh prince in a stone hall in Machynlleth 👑 Will you help us tell that story to those who need to hear? 👇🙏 👉 proudofus.co.uk/support 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧




Tampons in the men’s bathroom at the Senedd. Totally mental.



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