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Author: Emrys Roberts
Publisher: Y Lolfa
Published: 2017-10-27
Total Pages: 75
ISBN-13: 1784614823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA book full of fascinating, little-known facts about Wales. Stories about the huge contribution of this small nation to the world are presented, such as the most advanced laws in the Middle Ages, Britain's only effective royal dynasty and its most effective prime minister.
Author: Janet Davies
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2014-01-15
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1783160209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe existence of the Welsh-language can come as a surprise to those who assume that English is the foundation language of Britain. However, J. R. R. Tolkien described Welsh as the 'senior language of the men of Britain'. Visitors from outside Wales may be intrigued by the existence of Welsh and will want to find out how a language which has, for at least fifteen hundred years, been the closest neighbour of English, enjoys such vibrancy, bearing in mind that English has obliterated languages thousands of miles from the coasts of England. This book offers a broad historical survey of Welsh-language culture from sixth-century heroic poetry to television and pop culture in the early twenty-first century. The public status of the language is considered and the role of Welsh is compared with the roles of other of the non-state languages of Europe. This new edition of The Welsh Language offers a full assessment of the implications of the linguistic statistics produced by the 2011 Census. The volume contains maps and plans showing the demographic and geographic spread of Welsh over the ages, charts examining the links between words in Welsh and those in other Indo-European languages, and illustrations of key publications and figures in the history of the language. It concludes with brief guides to the pronunciation, the dialects and the grammar of Welsh.
Author: Huw Pryce
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-05-05
Total Pages: 507
ISBN-13: 0198746032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book to explore how the history of Wales and the Welsh has been written over the past fifteen hundred years, 'Writing Welsh History' analyses and contextualizes historical writing, from Gildas in the sixth century to recent global approaches, to open new perspectives both on the history of Wales and on understandings of Wales and the Welsh.
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Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2015-03-15
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1783161906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombines historical and contemporary material. Draws on historical, sociological, cultural and literary approaches. Full revised and up-to-date edition of a classic book in the field. Covers the whole field in one volume.
Author: Patricia Skinner
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2018-02-07
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1786831902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEntry point into Welsh migration by experts: many of the contributors have longer studies that students can then read; Multi-disciplinary: shows how historical and literary sources can be read together, includes new archaeological data Showcases new work by a new generation of Welsh historians.
Author: David Ceri Jones
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2022-02-15
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781786838216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA one-volume history of Christianity in Wales, from its Roman origins to the present.
Author: Daryl Leeworthy
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2019-09-15
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 1786834820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Little Gay History of Wales is the first book-length historical examination of LGBT activism in Wales laying out the campaign for equality in the twentieth century, the campaigns against Section 28, student and community activism, and recent developments such as Stonewall Cymru. It is an example of pioneering archival research, drawing on never-before studied records which charts the lives of ordinary LGBT men and women across Wales. It also features wide-ranging historical analysis stretching from the medieval period through to the modern-day, providing guides to changing language, places where LGBT people met and socialised, and their day-to-day experiences of coming out, threats of persecution, and acceptance.
Author: Jen Wilson
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2019-04-01
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1786834081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe stories within its pages will attract not only social and political historians, but feminists, jazz fans, academics interested in African American cultural interchange, and general readers fascinated by the cast of characters who played and danced to the music, despite warnings from the pulpit that degenerate youth were destined for hell and damnation. Freedom Music will enable readers to learn of an innovative side of Wales previously hidden from history. The music appealed to Wales’ vibrant youth, and those not part of the mainstream culture of chapels, choirs and male voice choirs. This study highlights gender, misogyny and discrimination within jazz music in Wales. This studies focuses on the history of African American music in Wales, Welsh women’s contribution to jazz in Wales. Cultural innovation by women entrepreneurs during and from the First World War.
Author: Russell Davies
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2018-03-28
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 1786832151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book will provide an educational and entertaining read. It will explain the contradictions and complexities of the Welsh national identity. This book will reveal the hardships and horrors of some people's lives. It will reveal how religion and superstition ebbed and flowed together.
Author: Vivienne Sanders
Publisher:
Published: 2021-07-15
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781786837905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe exciting story of the Welsh immigrants and their descendants who made a disproportionate contribution to the creation and growth of the wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth.
