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Book Synopsis Wales, A Very Peculiar History by : Rupert Matthews
Download or read book Wales, A Very Peculiar History written by Rupert Matthews and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Roman invasion, through tall tales of Merlin and King Arthur, and right up to and beyond the incredible power of the mining industry, 'Wales, A Very Peculiar History' takes a quirky, sideways look at some of the slightly bizarre aspects of the home of welsh rarebit, Maelgwn the Dragon, and Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Featuring the full gamut of Welsh providence from the coal-mining years to its rebirth in the 1970s, this book tells a tale of ups and downs, of hills and valleys, and of hope and triumph against the odds, with a few leeks thrown in for good measure.
Book Synopsis Who Speaks for Wales? by : Raymond Williams
Download or read book Who Speaks for Wales? written by Raymond Williams and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection of Williams' writings on Welsh culture, literature, history and politics. His introduction offers an original reading of his career from a Welsh perspective. The book will be essential reading for anyone interested in questions of identity, nationhood and ethnicity.
Book Synopsis People, Places and Policy by : Martin Jones
Download or read book People, Places and Policy written by Martin Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Open Access version of this book, available at www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. Set within the context of UK devolution and constitutional change, People, Places and Policy offers important and interesting insights into ‘place-making’ and ‘locality-making’ in contemporary Wales. Combining policy research with policy-maker and stakeholder interviews at various spatial scales (local, regional, national), it examines the historical processes and working practices that have produced the complex political geography of Wales. This book looks at the economic, social and political geographies of Wales, which in the context of devolution and public service governance are hotly debated. It offers a novel ‘new localities’ theoretical framework for capturing the dynamics of locality-making, to go beyond the obsession with boundaries and coterminous geographies expressed by policy-makers and politicians. Three localities – Heads of the Valleys (north of Cardiff), central and west coast regions (Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and the former district of Montgomeryshire in Powys) and the A55 corridor (from Wrexham to Holyhead) – are discussed in detail to illustrate this and also reveal the geographical tensions of devolution in contemporary Wales. This book is an original statement on the making of contemporary Wales from the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) researchers. It deploys a novel ‘new localities’ theoretical framework and innovative mapping techniques to represent spatial patterns in data. This allows the timely uncovering of both unbounded and fuzzy relational policy geographies, and the more bounded administrative concerns, which come together to produce and reproduce over time Wales’ regional geography.
Download or read book Wales since 1939 written by Martin Johnes and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period since 1939 saw more rapid and significant change than any other time in Welsh history. Wales developed a more assertive identity of its own and some of the apparatus of a nation state. Yet its economy floundered between boom and bust, its traditional communities were transformed and the Welsh language and other aspects of its distinctiveness were undermined by a globalizing world. Wales was also deeply divided by class, language, ethnicity, gender, religion and region. Its people grew wealthier, healthier and more educated but they were not always happier. This ground-breaking book examines the story of Wales since 1939, giving voice to ordinary people and the variety of experiences within the nation. This is a history of not just a nation, but of its residents’ hopes and fears, their struggles and pleasures and their views of where they lived and the wider world.
Book Synopsis Making it Happen in Public Service by : Michael Connolly
Download or read book Making it Happen in Public Service written by Michael Connolly and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the change management strategies and processes employed to ensure that the Labour Government's commitment to devolution became a reality in Wales. It is an account of constitutional, cultural, organizational and human change set within a dynamic political context and is based on unprecedented research access to devolution papers and the politicians and civil servants concerned with the changes.
Book Synopsis Academic Working Lives by : Lynne Gornall
Download or read book Academic Working Lives written by Lynne Gornall and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provides a fine-grained, multidisciplinary, multi-context and inclusive set of approaches to the challenges and complexities within contemporary academic working lives"--
Book Synopsis Democratic Drift by : Matthew Flinders
Download or read book Democratic Drift written by Matthew Flinders and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the evolution of democracy in the UK since the election of New Labour in 1997. Flinders also explores the trajectory of democracy from 1945 onwards and examines the degree to which recent developments in the UK fit within global democratic trends.
Book Synopsis Comparing Devolved Governance by : D. Birrell
Download or read book Comparing Devolved Governance written by D. Birrell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines recent evidence of a growing symmetry in the operation of devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This book makes one of the first systematic and detailed comparisons of the operation of the devolved institutions and machinery of governance. It uses a comparative approach to explore the key workings of government.
Book Synopsis Anglo-Norman Studies XXX by : C. P. Lewis
Download or read book Anglo-Norman Studies XXX written by C. P. Lewis and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest collection of articles on Anglo-Norman topics, with a particular focus on Wales.
Download or read book The Welsh Girl written by Peter Ho Davies and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WWII-era Welsh barmaid begins a secret relationship with a German POW in this “beautiful” novel by the author of A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself (Ann Patchett). Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Set in the stunning landscape of North Wales just after D-Day, this critically acclaimed debut novel traces the intersection of disparate lives in wartime. When a prisoner-of-war camp is established near her village, seventeen-year-old barmaid Esther Evans finds herself strangely drawn to the camp and its forlorn captives. She is exploring the camp boundary when an astonishing thing occurs: A young German corporal calls out to her from behind the fence. From that moment on, the two begin an unlikely—and perilous—romance. Meanwhile, a German-Jewish interrogator travels to Wales to investigate Britain’s most notorious Nazi prisoner, Rudolf Hess. In this richly drawn and thought-provoking “tour de force,” all will come to question the meaning of love, family, loyalty, and national identity (The New Yorker). “If you loved The English Patient, there’s probably a place in your heart for The Welsh Girl.” —USA Today “Davies’s characters are marvelously nuanced.” —Los Angeles Times “Beautifully conjures a place and its people, in an extraordinary time . . . A rare gem.” —Claire Messud, author of The Woman Upstairs “This first novel by Davies, author of two highly praised short story collections, has been anticipated—and, with its wonderfully drawn characters, it has been worth the wait.” —Booklist, starred review
Book Synopsis A History of Independent Television in Wales by : Jamie Medhurst
Download or read book A History of Independent Television in Wales written by Jamie Medhurst and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the growing body of work on the media in Wales, very little exists on the history of commercial television in Wales. This book seeks to address this imbalance by tracing the growth and development of ITV in Wales and assessing its contribution to the life of the nation. ITV has been a powerful force in British broadcasting since its inception in 1955. When commercial television came to Wales for the first time in 1958, it immediately got caught up in with matters of national identity, language and geography. Compared with the BBC, it is a relative newcomer; its growth was slower than that of the BBC and it took until 1962 to complete the network across the UK. Once it had arrived, however, its impact was considerable. The book will provide an historical narrative and critical analysis of independent television (ITV) in Wales from 1958 up until the present day.
Book Synopsis J. E. Lloyd and the Creation of Welsh History by : Huw Pryce
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 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book about the historian John Edward Lloyd (1861 - 1947), whose A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest (1911) marks a turning point in the writing of Welsh history.
Book Synopsis Terry Davies Story - Wales's First Superstar Fullback by : Terry Davies
Download or read book Terry Davies Story - Wales's First Superstar Fullback written by Terry Davies and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable life story of Wales and Lions rugby star Terry Davies, encompassing his childhood in Bynea, Llanelli, learning rugby in Stradey School, making his debut as a schoolboy for Swansea, entering the Royal Marines and winning his first cap before going on to become a household name.
Download or read book Huw T. Edwards written by Paul Ward and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huw T. Edwards was a prominent Welsh- (and English-) speaking public figure in twentieth-century Welsh society. In the 1950s he was known as 'the unofficial Prime Minister of Wales' because of his chairmanship of the Council of Wales. In 1958 Edwards resigned from the Council of Wales because the Conservative government refused to create the post of Secretary of State for Wales. In 1959 he also resigned from the Labour Party, after 50 years membership. Again, his reasons reflected a growing sense of Welsh nationalism. He had become increasingly interested in Welsh cultural and political issues and had encouraged his union to support of Coleg Harlech and the National Eisteddfod. On leaving Labour, Edwards joined Plaid Cymru. Edwards's political life, therefore, seems to reinforce the notion of fragmentation of United Kingdom identities and their replacement by distinct and politically ambitious national identities in Wales. This book suggests that close examination of Edwards political life reveals a more complex situation. Edwards's resignation from Labour was about his political desires for Wales but equally entailed a rejection of the rightward shift in British Labour politics being led by Hugh Gaitskell. Edwards's protest can therefore be viewed from the perspective of the British left as well as Welsh nationalism. Hence in 1965 Edwards rejoined Labour, because the accession of Harold Wilson to the Labour leadership and government resulted in a radicalisation of the party alongside recognition of Welsh nationhood with the establishment of a Welsh Secretary of State and a Welsh Office.
Book Synopsis Delineating Wales by : Richard Rawlings
Download or read book Delineating Wales written by Richard Rawlings and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical evaluation of the constitutional, legal and administrative aspects of devolution in Wales, comprising comments on the defects of the present governmental regime and an examination of possible new developments, based on extensive research following the first term of the National Assembly of Wales, with explanatory textual notes.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215540218 Total Pages :308 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (42 download)
Book Synopsis Putting science and engineering at the heart of government policy by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee
Download or read book Putting science and engineering at the heart of government policy written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A report that considers the broad issue of why science and engineering are important and why they should be at the heart of Government policy. It also considers three more specific issues: the debate on strategic priorities; the principles that inform science funding decisions; and, the scrutiny of science and engineering across Government.
Book Synopsis Trailing Clouds of Glory - Welsh Football's Forgotten Heroes of 1976 by : Nick Burnell
Download or read book Trailing Clouds of Glory - Welsh Football's Forgotten Heroes of 1976 written by Nick Burnell and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In two years, Wales went from Home International wooden spoon holders four times running to 1976 European Football Championship quarter-finalists. The book provides the background to qualification, accounts of all matches, examination of the fallout from the campaign's controversial ending, and a 'Where are they now?' section.
