The Long View

The painting of the Battle of Frezenburg Ridge which hangs in Newport Civic Centre. Captain Harold Thorne Edwards and men of the 1st Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment stands at the centre, firing at the enemy.

Farewell from the Long View

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A war veteran, reporter and Caerleon stalwart is remembered

Recalling the last months of the war – 100 years on

The spectacular railway that crossed Gwent

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City’s bustling dock in its heyday

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Telling the story of Gwent's standing stones

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Welsh RAF squadron mourns its fallen on 80th anniversary

The village built as a war memorial

Book captures the memories of town's war veterans

'The square was empty. I could see barrels of soldiers’ muskets pointing out of windows, and I could see a poor fellow lying in the road' - An eyewitness recalls the Chartist uprising

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Farewell to the man who painted the great ships which came to Newport

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Farewell to Newport’s Royal Navy ship - HMS Severn

Newport pubs from the past

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Aerial pictures of the past show changing face of Newport

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Book comes from lifelong passion for the Severn

Park night will recall Newport boxer David Pearce’s bid for title

The future for Newport's medieval ship

15 years on: How Newport's medieval ship was found and saved

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The daring Newport raid in first minutes of the First World War

Looking back at Maindee baths - Newport's stylish pool

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Passchendaele - the battle that saw slaughter in the mud for little gain

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THE LONG VIEW: The choppers which came to Gwent

Handball: Wales’ first national sport

Farewell to Bob Curzon, a leader on the fields of battle and sport

Gwent's last colliery disaster

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How the Argus told the story of the Falklands War

The story of the Tredegar Company - the iron and coal firm that forged Gwent

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Picture shows the last day of horse-drawn deliveries on Newport streets

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These pictures tell the story of Newport - real and imagined

The child refugees who escaped the Spanish civil war and found safety in Newport

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We tell the story of Gwent’s own regiment

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Memories of Ebbw Vale Garden Festival which transformed town 25 years ago

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How the Argus helped our prisoners-of-war

TV and film locations using Gwent as their backdrop

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Books are tributes to Gwent writer Arthur Machen

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From the Usk barrage to a Newport skyscraper - we look back at visions of future

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The ships Newport has welcomed over the years

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These incredible views from the air show how Newport has changed

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Pictures take you back to Newport's high street icons of the 80s

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The Llanerch colliery disaster: A mine blast which shattered the valleys

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Letters found in South of England tell of wartime sorrow for Newport family

Warship Week - the Gwent fundraising craze which paid for fighting ships

Cwmbran's VC hero of Rorke’s Drift is still remembered

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LONG VIEW: When U-boats brought death to Newport

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THE LONG VIEW: How Newport bought its very own Spitfire

THE LONG VIEW: The Christmas of wartime Gwent, a hundred years ago

THE LONG VIEW: The prehistoric footprints found in the mud of the Severn

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THE LONG VIEW: When Newport’s men of steel went to war

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THE LONG VIEW: The Merchant Navy's debt to Newport

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THE LONG VIEW: The Battle of the Somme reaches its bloody end

THE LONG VIEW: The stories behind the war memorials of Gwent

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THE LONG VIEW: The story of the Chartist legend, John Frost

THE LONG VIEW: When Newport became a city

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