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Author : Prys Morgan
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075249631X
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Tempus History of Wales written by Prys Morgan and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2008-02-24 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tempus History of Wales 25,000 BC to AD 2000.
Author : David Moore
Publisher : Tempus History of Wales
ISBN 13 : 9780752441283
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)
Download or read book The Welsh Wars of Independence written by David Moore and published by Tempus History of Wales. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independent Wales was defined in the centuries after the Romans withdrew from Britain in 410 AD. The Welsh achieved this despite Irish and Viking raids and colonization, despite the growing power of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and despite frequent and often bitter dissension between themselves. Part of the Tempus History of Wales series, this study analyzes the wars of Welsh independence that encompass centuries of raids, expeditions, battles, and sieges--from increased pressure from the east from the 11th century onwards to the ambitious and almost successful revolt under Owain Glyn Dwr in the 15th century.
Author : Gerald Morgan
Publisher : Y Lolfa
ISBN 13 : 1847717713
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Brief History of Wales written by Gerald Morgan and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short history pocketbook of Wales by a renowned historian. From the Romans onward, via Vikings, Saxons, Normans and Flemings, the Welsh have both resisted and absorbed invasion after invasion. Princes, papists, protestants, politicians, patriots, prophets and proletarians pass swiftly before us in this gripping narrative of conquest, resistance and survival.
Author : Michael Davies
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752479237
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Last King of Wales written by Michael Davies and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gruffudd ap Llywelyn was Wales' greatest king. Ambitious and battle-sure, he succeeded in doing what no Welsh king before him was capable of: he ruled all Wales as a united and independent state. He went further by turning the Viking threat to his realm into a powerful weapon and conquering border land that had been in English hands for centuries. Having emerged as a war leader, Gruffudd also proved to be much more: a patron of the arts and church, with the trappings of a king who was respected and feared on the European stage. His eventual murder at the hands of his own men narrowed the country's political ambitions and left Wales in chaos on the eve of the arrival of the Normans. Those who betrayed Gruffudd were the forebears of the famous princes who would dominate Wales until the Edwardian Conquest, meaning that the former king left no one to tell of his glory. As a result, 1,000 years after his birth, the would-be nation builder is all but forgotten. Here, Sean and Michael Davies reveal the king in all his glory, telling for the first time the story of one of Wales' greatest figures and exploring the full implications of Gruffudd's rule. For, without Gruffudd, the fate of King Harold and the outcome of the Battle of Hastings would have been very different...
Author : Jon Gower
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446417107
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)
Download or read book The Story of Wales written by Jon Gower and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of Wales is a vibrant portrait of 30,000 years of power, identity and politics. Revisiting major turning points in Welsh history, from its earliest settlements to the present day, Jon Gower re-examines the myths and misconceptions about this glorious country, revealing a people who have reacted with energy and invention to changing times and opportunities. It's a story of political and industrial power, economic and cultural renewal- and a nation of seemingly limitless potential. The Story of Wales is an epic account of Welsh history for a new generation.
Author : Richard Suggett
Publisher : Tempus
ISBN 13 : 9780752428260
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (282 download)
Download or read book A History of Magic and Witchcraft in Wales written by Richard Suggett and published by Tempus. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold history of Wales's rich gallery of magical specialists suspected of harmful witchcraft and how they were tracked down by a vengeful community. Witchcraft studies are central to the study of the history of religion, power, and community in early modern Europe. This book establishes that Wales was one of the peripheral areas of witch-hunting where prosecutions started relatively late. Nevertheless, Wales had a rich array of magical specialists--including prophets, cunning-men, and physicians--some of whom were suspected of harmful witchcraft. This book takes an inclusive approach to witchcraft and examines all types of magical specialists, including those regarded as beneficial as well as harmful.
Author : Keith Stringer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131702253X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Normans and the 'Norman Edge' written by Keith Stringer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern historians of the Normans have tended to treat their enterprises and achievements as a series of separate and discrete histories. Such treatments are valid and valuable, but historical understanding of the Normans also depends as much on broader approaches akin to those adopted in this book. As the successor volume to Norman Expansion: Connections, Continuities and Contrasts, it complements and significantly extends its findings to provide a fuller appreciation of the roles played by the Normans as one of the most dynamic and transformative forces in the history of medieval ‘Outer Europe’. It includes panoramic essays that dissect the conceptual and methodological issues concerned, suggest strategies for avoiding associated pitfalls, and indicate how far and in what ways the Normans and their legacies served to reshape sociopolitical landscapes across a vast geography extending from the remoter corners of the British Isles to the Mediterranean basin. Leading experts in their fields also provide case-by-case analyses, set within and between different areas, of themes such as lordship and domination, identities and identification, naming patterns, marriage policies, saints’ cults, intercultural exchanges, and diaspora–homeland connections. The Normans and the ‘Norman Edge’ therefore presents a potent combination of thought-provoking overviews and fresh insights derived from new research, and its wide-ranging comparative focus has the advantage of illuminating aspects of the Norman past that traditional regional or national histories often do not reveal so clearly. It likewise makes a major contribution to current Norman scholarship by reconsidering the links between Norman expansion and ‘state-formation’; the extent to which Norman practices and priorities were distinctive; the balance between continuity and innovation; relations between the Normans and the indigenous peoples and cultures they encountered; and, not least, forms of Norman identity and their resilience over time. An extensive bibliography is also one of this book’s strengths.
Author : Irene Morra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857728679
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The New Elizabethan Age written by Irene Morra and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first half of the twentieth century, many writers and artists turnedto the art and received example of the Elizabethans as a means ofarticulating an emphatic (and anti-Victorian) modernity. By the middleof that century, this cultural neo-Elizabethanism had become absorbedwithin a broader mainstream discourse of national identity, heritage andcultural performance. Taking strength from the Coronation of a new, youngQueen named Elizabeth, the New Elizabethanism of the 1950s heralded anation that would now see its 'modern', televised monarch preside over animminently glorious and artistic age.This book provides the first in-depth investigation of New Elizabethanismand its legacy. With contributions from leading cultural practitioners andscholars, its essays explore New Elizabethanism as variously manifestin ballet and opera, the Coronation broadcast and festivities, nationalhistoriography and myth, the idea of the 'Young Elizabethan', celebrations ofair travel and new technologies, and the New Shakespeareanism of theatreand television. As these essays expose, New Elizabethanism was muchmore than a brief moment of optimistic hyperbole. Indeed, from moderndrama and film to the reinternment of Richard III, from the London Olympicsto the funeral of Margaret Thatcher, it continues to pervade contemporaryartistic expression, politics, and key moments of national pageantry.
Author : Sean Davies
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473861683
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Edward I's Conquest of Wales written by Sean Davies and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of medieval warfare and a formative event in the history of Britain. Edward I’s conquest of Wales has not been the subject of a scholarly book for over a century. Research has advanced since then, changing our perception of the medieval military mind and shining fresh light on the key characters involved in the conquest. That is why Sean Davies’s absorbing new study is so timely and important. Taking a balanced approach, he gives both the Welsh and English perspectives on the war and on the brutal, mistrustful, and ruthless personal motives that drove events. His account is set in the context of Welsh warfare and society from the end of Rome to the time of Edward’s opening campaign in the late thirteenth century. The narrative describes in vivid detail the military history of the conflict; the sequence of campaigns; Welsh resistance; Edward’s castle building and English colonization; the cost of the struggle to the Welsh and the English; and the uneasy peace that followed.
Author : Stuart Cole
Publisher : Etica Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 190563305X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (56 download)
Download or read book West from Paddington written by Stuart Cole and published by Etica Press Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West from Paddington is the essential companion for every traveller on First Great Western Railway. Packed with information on all the landmarks, railway history, geographical features and places of interest that can be seen from your window as your journey unfolds, this indispensable guide covers three great routes - Paddington to Bristol; Reading to Penzance and Swindon to Carmarthen. A route map for each section of the journey highlights the features described, and the book includes hundreds of specially commissioned colour photographs giving a 'traveller's-eye' view. Each entry indicates on which side of the train the place or item of interest described can be found. Written by lifelong railway enthusiast and Professor of Transport, Stuart Cole, and with a Foreword by pop impresario and railway devotee Pete Waterman OBE, West from Paddington will turn your journey into a voyage of discovery.
Author : Margaret Szasz
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806138619
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (386 download)
Download or read book Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans written by Margaret Szasz and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this first book-length examination of the SSPCK, Margaret Connell Szasz explores the origins of the Scottish Society's policies of cultural colonialism and their influence on two disparate frontiers. Drawing intriguing parallels between the treatment of Highland Scots and Native Americans, she incorporates multiple perspectives on the cultural encounter, juxtaposing the attitudes of Highlanders and Lowlanders, English colonials and Native peoples, while giving voice to the Society's pupils and graduates, its schoolmasters, and religious leaders."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : David Ceri Jones
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786838230
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Download or read book A History of Christianity in Wales written by David Ceri Jones and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balanced coverage of whole history of Christianity in Wales, paying as much attention to earlier periods as the better-known later ones. A contemporary view of the subject, incorporating the latest scholarly research in an accessible and readable form. Guides to further reading specifically aimed at navigating students and others through what they should read after this book.
Author : K. L. Maund
Publisher : Tempus Publishing, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Welsh Kings written by K. L. Maund and published by Tempus Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author produces revealing pictures of the leading Welsh kings & princes of the day & explores their contribution to Welsh history & their impaction the wider world:
Author : Keith Busby
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781843840978
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Arthurian Literature XXIII written by Keith Busby and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 23rd volume of 'Arthurian Literature' continues the tradition of the journal, combining critical studies with editions of primary Arthurian texts.
Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Discovering a Welsh Landscape written by Ian Brown and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the far north-east corner of Wales, a line of hills looks east across the plain into England, guarding the way towards Snowdonia. Designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Clwydian Range has a very rich archaeology. This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of this landscape: a history of Wales in microcosm. At the northern end of the Welsh March, the Clwydian Range is a crossroads, a place where outside influences have always been profound. The book consequently places the Range's archaeology in the context of the broader themes in Welsh and British history. We learn of: the mammoth bones left in the area's caves by Paleaeolithic hunters; the great chain of Iron Age hillforts that crown the Range; the bronze brooches in Romano-British burials; from the medieval period, motte and bailey castles and Gothic churches; the watercourses, mines and engine houses of the industrial era; the Range's links with the great poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. Throughout, the photographs capture the spirit of Hopkins' original 'landscape plotted and pieced'. The Clwydian Range is perhaps typical of Britain, where places have a great depth of historical connections. This book shows how much there is to be discovered. Ian Brown, formerly County Heritage Officer for Clwyd, managed the Clwydian Range Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Mick Sharp and Jean Williamson are two of Britain's leading archaeological and landscape photographers.
Author : Brian Elliott
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473834651
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors written by Brian Elliott and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A meticulous mixture of social and family history . . . Whether or not you have mining connections, this is an interesting socio-economic read.” —Your Family Tree In the 1920s there were over a million coalminers working in over 3000 collieries across Great Britain, and the industry was one of the most important and powerful in British history. It dominated the lives of generations of individuals, their families, and communities, and its legacy is still with us today—many of us have a coalmining ancestor. Yet family historians often have problems in researching their mining forebears. Locating the relevant records, finding the sites of the pits, and understanding the work involved and its historical background can be perplexing. That is why Brian Elliott’s concise, authoritative and practical handbook will be so useful, for it guides researchers through these obstacles and opens up the broad range of sources they can go to in order to get a vivid insight into the lives and experiences of coalminers in the past. His overview of the coalmining history—and the case studies and research tips he provides—will make his book rewarding reading for anyone looking for a general introduction to this major aspect of Britain’s industrial heritage. His directory of regional and national sources and his commentary on them will make this guide an essential tool for family historians searching for an ancestor who worked in coalmining underground, on the pit top or just lived in a mining community. As featured in Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine and the Barnsley Chronicle.
Author : Gwyn Campbell
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004209808
Total Pages : 1203 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book David Griffiths and the Missionary "History of Madagascar" written by Gwyn Campbell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 1203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the hitherto hidden history of inter-missionary dispute that split the first LMS mission to Madagascar. Focussing on David Griffiths, whose pivotal role was concealed by the LMS, it suggests that Welsh-English rivalry moulded the mission’s destiny.
