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Episode 261 - 1905, The Season That Made a Nation

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:32:04
Publish Date: 2026-04-06 06:00:00
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By the early twentieth century, rugby was not simply popular in Wales. It was emotional infrastructure. It was civic ritual. And in 1905 a game between Wales and New Zealand would set Rugby Union at the heart of Welsh national pride.

Photo :Credited to Bowden Brothers photography - [1] Digitised from Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, AWNS-19060201-15-3 Published in the Auckland Weekly News, 01 February 1906, pg. 15. Follow us on social media:

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Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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