Book Description
This worl explains how Wales developed from its Celtic origins, through its joining the Union and its social, political and industrial development from then through to the modern age.
Author : David Ross
Publisher : Waverley Books Limited
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 39,33 MB
Release : 2014-07
Category : Wales
ISBN : 9781849341790
This worl explains how Wales developed from its Celtic origins, through its joining the Union and its social, political and industrial development from then through to the modern age.
Author : Geraint H. Jenkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Wales
ISBN : 0521823676
Based on the most recent historical research and current debates about Wales and Welshness, this volume offers the most up-to-date, authoritative and accessible account of the period from Neanderthal times to the opening of the Senedd, the new home of the National Assembly for Wales, in 2006. Within a remarkably brief and stimulating compass, Geraint H. Jenkins explores the emergence of Wales as a nation, its changing identities and values, and the transformations its people experienced and survived throughout the centuries. In the face of seemingly overwhelming odds, the Welsh never reconciled themselves to political, social and cultural subordination, and developed ingenious ways of maintaining a distinctive sense of their otherness. The book ends with the coming of political devolution and the emergence of a greater measure of cultural pluralism. Professor Jenkins's lavishly illustrated volume provides enthralling material for scholars, students, general readers, and travellers to Wales.
Author : J. Graham Jones
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780708314913
This highly successful, illustrated Pocket Guide has been revised and expanded. the Celts to the invasion by Romans and Normans, the conquest by Edward I of England, the passage of the Acts of Union, the impact of the Reformation, Puritanism and Methodism, the effects of the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions and the changes in political, social and economic life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. historical sites, a glossary of terms and a list of important dates are included, making this an ideal introductory study for the general reader.
Author : David Stephenson
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1786833875
After outlining conventional accounts of Wales in the High Middle Ages, this book moves to more radical approaches to its subject. Rather than discussing the emergence of the March of Wales from the usual perspective of the ‘intrusive’ marcher lords, for instance, it is considered from a Welsh standpoint explaining the lure of the March to Welsh princes and its contribution to the fall of the native principality of Wales. Analysis of the achievements of the princes of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries focuses on the paradoxical process by which increasingly sophisticated political structures and a changing political culture supported an autonomous native principality, but also facilitated eventual assimilation of much of Wales into an English ‘empire’. The Edwardian conquest is examined and it is argued that, alongside the resultant hardship and oppression suffered by many, the rising class of Welsh administrators and community leaders who were essential to the governance of Wales enjoyed an age of opportunity. This is a book that introduces the reader to the celebrated and the less well-known men and women who shaped medieval Wales.
Author : M. Wynn Thomas
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1786837684
Down the centuries, poets have provided Wales with a window onto its own distinctive world. This book gives a sense of the view seen through that special window in twelve illustrated poems, each bringing very different periods and aspects of the Welsh past into focus. Together, they give the flavour of a poetic tradition, both ancient and modern, in the Welsh language and in English, that is internationally renowned for its distinction and continuing vibrancy.
Author : T. M. Charles-Edwards
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0198217315
The most detailed history of the Welsh from Late-Roman Britain to the eve of the Norman Conquest. Integrates the history of religion, language, and literature with the history of events.
Author : David Ceri Jones
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 2022-02-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781786838216
A one-volume history of Christianity in Wales, from its Roman origins to the present.
Author : John Davies
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 2007-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0141926333
Stretching from the Ice Ages to the present day, this masterful account traces the political, social and cultural history of the land that has come to be called Wales. Spanning prehistoric hill forts and Roman ruins to the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution and the series of strikes by Welsh miners in the late twentieth century, this is the definitive history of an enduring people: a unique and compelling exploration of the origins of the Welsh nation, its development and its role in the modern world. This new edition brings this remarkable history into the new era of the Welsh Assembly.
Author : Elin Jones
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 2021-09-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781845278328
In this book, historian Elin Jones shows us that evidence for the past is to be seen everywhere in Wales today. She takes us on a visual journey through over 5,000 years of history, and around every part of Wales. A must read history of Wales for every school, learner and teacher. Also available in Welsh: Hanes yn y Tir.
Author : Vivienne Sanders
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,78 MB
Release : 2021-07-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781786837905
The 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.