Though the costume is inspired by 19th-century rural Welsh dress, styles ebbed and flowed throughout this period – the Welsh hat, for example, did not arrive until the 1840s – making the costume we know today more an amalgamation of various styles than an accurate depiction of an outfit worn during one particular moment in history.
Additionally, there was also not one singular style of dress throughout Wales, as Michael David Freeman, a former curator of Ceredigion Museum, who also runs a website dedicated to Welsh traditional dress, explains. Read More...
Science fiction stories have piqued the curiosity of most of us in many ways. Scientists have shown us that what once seemed like a dream could become possible. Today, with technological advances, those who grew up watching movies like Star Wars have testified to how many predictions like holograms now exist. And while we still wait for many inventions to come true, we can predict the future has more to say than what we have already seen.
We at Bright Side have been curious about what would happen if we cloned ourselves. Read More...
Latest YouGov Westminster voting intention figuresThe latest YouGov/Times voting intention poll - our first conducted after Rishi Sunak called the general election - has the Conservatives on 22% (+1 from our previous poll on 21-22 May) while Labour are on 44% (-2).
Elsewhere, Reform UK are on 14% (+2), the Lib Dems are on 9% (no change) and the Greens are on 6% (-1).
These changes are all within the margin of error from our last poll. Read More...