The first Welsh settlers landed on the shores of what is today the Province of Chubut, in Argentinean Patagonia, on 28 July 1865. Carried on the ship Mimosa, this was the first of a series of ...

This post is part of a special Global Voices series on Welsh language and digital media in collaboration with Hacio'r Iaith. Argentina received large flows of immigrants in the late 1700s and during ...

The descendants of Welsh immigrants who set sail to Argentina 160 years ago have planted 1,500 daffodils as a nod to their roots. About 150 immigrants travelled to Patagonia on a converted tea clipper ...

The Royal Welsh Show held annually in Builth, Wales has praised a visiting delegation from the Falkland Islands, underscoring the deep historical ties and shared heritage between the Islands and Wales ...

Ann-Marie Brierly visited Patagonia as a teacher in 2001. One of her students was Fabio Lewis, whose great grandfather, Lewis Davies, had come over on the Mimosa. Soon, Fabio's relationship with the ...

July 2015 will mark the 150th anniversary of the first Welsh settlers disembarking upon the shores of Puerto Madryn in Argentina aboard the Mimosa. Even as a Welsh-speaker and history student, until I ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...