Saint Gildas the historian


Where was Britain’s first formal seat of learning? The University of Oxford has the best claim to be the oldest university in the British Isles, beating the University of Cambridge by some two hundred years. But were both preceded by a monastic institution in Wales? Llantwit Major is a small town on the south Welsh coast, some 15 miles south-west of Cardiff. There are some remarkable […]

The Welsh college older than Oxford University