Editing Huw Edwards (section)

==Early life and education==
Huw Edwards was born on 18 August 1961 in [[Bridgend]], Glamorgan, Wales,<ref name="WhosWho">{{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U43950/EDWARDS_Huw |title=EDWARDS, Huw |work=Who's Who 2016 online edition |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |access-date=24 January 2016 |archive-date=12 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230712173852/https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-43950 |url-status=live }}</ref> into a [[Welsh-speaking]] family, and, from the age of four, was brought up in [[Llangennech]], near [[Llanelli]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=5 August 2022 |title=Urddo Mark Drakeford a Huw Edwards i'r Orsedd |language=cy |work=BBC Cymru Fyw |url=https://www.bbc.com/cymrufyw/62379506 |access-date=31 August 2022 |archive-date=3 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221003071826/https://www.bbc.com/cymrufyw/62379506 |url-status=live}}</ref> His father, [[Hywel Teifi Edwards]], was a [[Plaid Cymru]] and Welsh language activist,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jan/26/hywel-teifi-edwards-obituary|title=Hywel Teifi Edwards obituary|last=Rees|first=D. Ben|date=26 January 2010|work=The Guardian|access-date=17 July 2017|archive-date=28 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228192246/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jan/26/hywel-teifi-edwards-obituary|url-status=live}}</ref> and an author and academic, who was research professor of [[Welsh-language literature|Welsh-language Literature]] at [[University College of Swansea]].<ref name=":0">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8440734.stm|title=Hywel Teifi Edwards dies aged 75|date=5 January 2010|work=BBC News|access-date=18 March 2012|archive-date=9 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909054348/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8440734.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> Edwards's mother, Aerona Protheroe, spent 30 years teaching at Llanelli's [[Ysgol y Strade|Ysgol Gyfun y Strade]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Mosalski|first=Ruth|title=The downfall of Huw Edwards: How one of Wales' most recognisable faces lost everything|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/downfall-huw-edwards-how-one-29655112|work=Wales Online|date=3 August 2024|access-date=11 September 2024}}</ref> He has one sister, Meinir.<ref>{{cite news |last=Davies |first=Gareth |title=Top BBC job is a victory for a Welshman, says Huw Edwards |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/22/huw-edwards-bbc-reliant-welshman-victory/ |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=22 December 2021 |access-date=11 September 2024 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Edwards was educated at [[Llanelli Boys' Grammar School]].<ref name="tes">{{cite news|title=My Best Teacher – Interview: Huw Edwards|url=https://www.tes.com/news/my-best-teacherinterviewhuw-edwardsfeatures-and-arts|publisher=[[Times Educational Supplement]]|date=24 December 1999|author=Williamson, Nigel|author-link=Nigel Williamson|access-date=26 August 2019|archive-date=23 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423132844/https://www.tes.com/news/my-best-teacherinterviewhuw-edwardsfeatures-and-arts|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1978 he applied to [[Hertford College, Oxford]], but was rejected.<ref>{{cite news|last=Clarence-Smith|first=Louisa|date=7 June 2023|work=The Telegraph|title='Rejection by Oxford was the making of me,' Huw Edwards reveals|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/07/huw-edwards-oxford-university-bbc/|access-date=25 July 2023}}</ref> He graduated with a first-class honours degree in French from [[University College, Cardiff]], in 1983.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|title=South West Wales – Hall of Fame|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southwest/halloffame/showbiz/huwedwards.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030423235524/http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southwest/halloffame/showbiz/huwedwards.shtml|archive-date=23 April 2003 |publisher=[[BBC]]}}</ref> After his first degree, he started postgraduate work at Cardiff University in [[Medieval French]], before becoming a reporter for local radio station [[Swansea Sound]] and then joining the BBC.<ref>{{Cite news|date=20 January 2003|title=Simon Hattenstone talks to Huw Edwards|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/jan/20/bbc.broadcasting1|access-date=15 April 2021|website=the Guardian|language=en|archive-date=9 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009135049/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/jan/20/bbc.broadcasting1|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2018, Edwards was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree, with a thesis on [[Nonconformity in Wales|Welsh Nonconformist]] chapels in Llanelli and London, by the [[University of Wales Trinity Saint David]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Davies |first=Rebecca |date=6 July 2018 |title=Press Releases 2018 – University of Wales Trinity Saint David |url=https://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/news/press-releases/press-2018/bbcs-huw-edwards-is-awarded-a-phd-at-uwtsd-lampeter.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707010002/https://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/news/press-releases/press-2018/bbcs-huw-edwards-is-awarded-a-phd-at-uwtsd-lampeter.html |archive-date=7 July 2018 |access-date=9 July 2018 |website=[[UWTSD]]}}</ref> His doctoral thesis was titled ''O Dinopolis i Fetropolis: arolwg o lanw a thrai achosion Ymneilltuol Cymraeg yn Llanelli a Llundain, 1714–2014'' ("From Tinopolis to Metropolis: A Survey of the Ebb and Flow of Welsh Dissenting Causes in Llanelli and London, 1714–2014").<ref>{{cite web |last1=Edwards |first1=Huw |date=2018 |title=O Dinopolis i Fetropolis: arolwg o lanw a thrai achosion Ymneilltuol Cymraeg yn Llanelli a Llundain, 1714–2014 |url=https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.793782 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208171912/https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.793782 |archive-date=8 December 2022 |access-date=9 July 2023 |website=E-Thesis Online Service |publisher=The British Library Board}}</ref> He said, "It's 12 years since I was here to receive an honorary fellowship which was a great day but today is an even bigger day because I am receiving my PhD after 7 agonising years of hard work on the history of the Welsh chapels in the 18th century."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gregory |first=Rhys |date=8 July 2018 |title=BBC broadcaster Huw Edwards collects his PhD from UWTSD |url=https://www.wales247.co.uk/bbc-broadcaster-huw-edwards-collects-his-phd-from-uwtsd |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812191126/https://www.wales247.co.uk/bbc-broadcaster-huw-edwards-collects-his-phd-from-uwtsd |archive-date=12 August 2022 |accessdate=12 July 2023}}</ref>