Snapshots Of Welsh History

Author : Phil Carradice
Publisher : Accent Press
ISBN 13 : 1908192445
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snapshots of Welsh History written by Phil Carradice and published by Accent Press. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection of stories from Welsh history collected from Phil Carradice’s popular BBC Wales blog, gathered together for the first time in a book. Among the incredible stories are... The man from Clydach who invented a Death Ray The Welsh aristocrat whose parrot once bit Herman Goering on the nose The witch who cursed the launch of a warship at Pembroke Dockyard The battle that was won by a herd of cows These stories are part and parcel of Welsh heritage and make history interesting. Snapshots of Welsh History – without the boring bits covers a wide range of Welsh history topics. Written in Phil’s unique easy-to-read yet elegant style, these stories are funny, tragic, sad and hilarious. Yet the one thing they all have in common is that they make compelling reading.

Author : Geoff Brookes
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750954981
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welsh History: Strange but True written by Geoff Brookes and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir John Pryce of Newtown Hall died in 1761. He kept the embalmed bodies of his first two wives on either side of his bed – until his third wife insisted that they were removed. In 1856 Ronald Rhys from the Vale of Neath disappeared for a week after seeing a strange light in a field and hearing a loud noise. He remembered being examined by small creatures who took a sample of his blood. Oh yes, and America is named after a Welshman and the Holy Grail is kept in a bank vault in West Wales... This book contains hundreds of 'strange but true' facts and anecdotes about Welsh history. Arranged into a miniature history of Wales, and with bizarre and hilarious true tales for every era, it will interest and delight readers everywhere.

Author : Ann Saer
Publisher : Pont
ISBN 13 : 9781843234265
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We children of Wales written by Ann Saer and published by Pont. This book was released on 2006 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a glimpse into the lives of 25 Welsh children, this book reveals their varying backgrounds, interests and cultural differences, underlining how important childhood is in the making of our personalities.

Author : Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn Prichard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heroines of Welsh History written by Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn Prichard and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn Prichard
Publisher : Arkose Press
ISBN 13 : 9781345733402
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heroines of Welsh History written by Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn Prichard and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Geraint H. Jenkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521823676
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Wales written by Geraint H. Jenkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Caradoc (of Llancarvan)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Wales written by Caradoc (of Llancarvan) and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : T. J. Llewelyn (Thomas Jeffery Prichard
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781362960065
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book HEROINES OF WELSH HIST written by T. J. Llewelyn (Thomas Jeffery Prichard and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Gwyn A. Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000593770
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Welsh in their History written by Gwyn A. Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-14 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1982, is a sequence of interrelated essays and aims to redirect attention to some critical moments in Welsh history from Roman times to the present. Each of the essays breaks new ground, argues for a new approach or opens a new discourse.

Author : Huw Pryce
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 178316297X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book J. E. Lloyd and the Creation of Welsh History written by Huw Pryce and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first intellectual biography of John Edward Lloyd (1861–1947), widely regarded as the founder of the modern academic study of Welsh history. Indeed, the compliment that pleased him most was that he had ‘created Welsh history’. Published to mark the centenary of Lloyd’s most important book, A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest (1911), the study reassesses Lloyd’s significance by setting his work in its multiple contexts. Part One gives an account of his life, with particular emphasis on his upbringing, education and subsequent career as a historian, viewed against the background both of efforts to give expression to Welsh nationhood through educational institutions and of wider developments in the professionalization of historical scholarship. In Part Two the focus shifts from the biographical to the thematic and examines why Lloyd privileged the early and medieval Welsh past and how he depicted this in his 1911 History. These chapters investigate key themes in Lloyd’s interpretation with reference not only to previous accounts of Welsh history but also to the broader intellectual and scholarly context of his own time. Through its reappraisal of Lloyd the book provides a case study of how the past of a small, stateless nation was reconfigured, at a time of self-conscious national revival, through deploying modern canons of scholarship that served to legitimize a new narrative of national origins. It thus offers a fresh and distinctive perspective on issues of broad significance in modern European historiography and intellectual history.