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Download or read book Cadfael Country written by Rob Talbot and published by Little Brown GBR. This book was released on 1990 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the authors of The Cotswolds, The English Lakes and Shakespeare's Avon this book is a celebration of the world of Ellis Peters and the medieval sleuth she has created, Brother Cadfael. It takes the form of an historical pilgrimage through the wild border county of Shropshire.
Book Synopsis Workhouses of Wales and the Welsh Borders by : Peter Higginbotham
Download or read book Workhouses of Wales and the Welsh Borders written by Peter Higginbotham and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey in 1776 recorded almost 2,000 parish workhouses operating in England, while the number in Wales was just nineteen. The New Poor Law of 1834 proved equally unattractive in much of Wales – some parts of the country resisted providing a workhouse until the 1870s, with Rhayader in Radnorshire being the last area in the whole of England and Wales to do so. Our image of these institutions has often been coloured by the work of authors such as Charles Dickens, but what was the reality? Where exactly were these workhouses located – and what happened to them? People are often surprised to discover that a familiar building was once a workhouse. Revealing locations steeped in social history, Workhouses of Wales and the Welsh Borders is a comprehensive and copiously illustrated guide to the workhouses that were set up across Wales and the border counties of Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire. It provides an insight into the contemporary attitudes towards such institutions as well as their construction and administration, what life was like for the inmates, and where to find their records today.
Book Synopsis The March of Wales 1067-1300 by : Max Lieberman
Download or read book The March of Wales 1067-1300 written by Max Lieberman and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1300, a region often referred to as the March of Wales had been created between England and the Principality of Wales. This March consisted of some forty castle-centred lordships extending along the Anglo-Welsh border and also across southern Wales. It took shape over more than two centuries, between the Norman conquest of England (1066) and the English conquest of Wales (1283), and is mentioned in Magna Carta (1215). It was a highly distinctive part of the political geography of Britain for much of the Middle Ages, yet the medieval March has long vanished, and today expressions like 'the marches' are used rather vaguely to refer to the Welsh Borders.What was the medieval March of Wales? How and why was it created? The March of Wales, 1067-1300: A Borderland of Medieval Britain provides comprehensible and concise answers to such questions. With the aid of maps, a list of key dates and source material such as the writings of Gerald of Wales (c.1146-1223), this book also places the March in the context of current academic debates on the frontiers, peoples and countries of the medieval British Isles.
Book Synopsis Best Walks in the Welsh Borders by : Simon Whaley
Download or read book Best Walks in the Welsh Borders written by Simon Whaley and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whaley selects 35 of the best walks, including ascents of Wenlock Edge and The Sugar Loaf, and provides examples for walkers of all ages and abilities. The book is illustrated throughout, and contains a useful reference section for planning purposes.
Download or read book The Welsh Borders written by Roy Millward and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From the Welsh Border to the World by : Simon Gwyn Roberts
Download or read book From the Welsh Border to the World written by Simon Gwyn Roberts and published by University of Chester. This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language extinction on an enormous scale has been occurring for over a century and has sped up dramatically in the last two decades. This book revolves around travels through the world’s most linguistically diverse regions, taking a comparative approach to the contemporary status of minority languages in the post-web world.
Book Synopsis Saint Ewen, Bristol and the Welsh Border by : Thomas Kerslake
Download or read book Saint Ewen, Bristol and the Welsh Border written by Thomas Kerslake and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Saint, Ewen, Bristol and the Welsh Border, circiter A.D. 577-926. With some notes on the ancient frontier marks ... and on the national hagiologies (also on the Mercians in Cornwall and Devon. Read at the Bristol Congress of the British Archæological Association ... 1874. With some additions.). by : Thomas KERSLAKE
Download or read book Saint, Ewen, Bristol and the Welsh Border, circiter A.D. 577-926. With some notes on the ancient frontier marks ... and on the national hagiologies (also on the Mercians in Cornwall and Devon. Read at the Bristol Congress of the British Archæological Association ... 1874. With some additions.). written by Thomas KERSLAKE and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gendering Border Studies by : Jane Aaron
Download or read book Gendering Border Studies written by Jane Aaron and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of borders has recently undergone significant transitions, reflecting the transformation of the world political map as well as the changes in the ways boundaries themselves function. In Gendering Border Studies sixteen established scholars from a variety of disciplines examine how the issue of gender and borders has been approached in their field and describe what they expect from future research. This book will be of interest to scholars of border studies, gender studies, social anthropology, international politics, comparative literature, and Welsh studies.
Book Synopsis The Witches Ways in the Welsh Borders by : Tamzin Powell
Download or read book The Witches Ways in the Welsh Borders written by Tamzin Powell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a delightful and fascinating study of practitioners who currently engage in a cluster of important traditions of spirituality, in an especially beautiful and numinous part of Britain." Professor Ronald Hutton. Local cunning folk and witches as practitioners of traditional magic, healing, ritualistic ceremonies and customs have been part of the Welsh Borderlands around the Wye Valley and Forest of Dean for many centuries and their ways have often come down from the ancient past. This book will take you on a journey where the greenwood, spirituality, ritualised practices, lifestyle and folklore will all come together to form the basis of an anthropological look at the cunning-folk ways, an ancient and contemporary analysis of Witchcraft with new historical evidence, and contemporary interviews with practitioners of magic. It is about pagans and the continuity of a cunning practice in the author's locale, one which is still practiced today. The author discovered new evidence suggesting that local cunning folk engage with ancient practices of Celtic deity worship involving an early British Goddess and her consort. The term 'Wiccan' (with two C's), often used to describe 'most' witch practitioners today, has been misunderstood for years and is expressly distinct from contemporary cunning folk and witches who are of a 'Wican'(with one C) tradition. The nature of this surprising distinction is discussed and evaluated. This book conveys the history of practitioners of Magic and Witchcraft in the borderlands of England and Wales (Albion and Cymru) from as far back as the fourteenth century. It is the first contemporary academic study ever done on cunning folk living in this locale. Most primary written evidence of witchcraft has been handed down from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers. However, one rarely known writer, Margaret Eyre, who lived in the Wye Valley in the nineteenth century, made unique records of interviews identifying ancestral, familial, and local attachments to cunning folk. Much of this information did not come to light and was therefore never acknowledged by writers until this author discovered some rare archives of The Folklore Society. Little is known of Eyre's role in The Folklore Society but she was the key to unlocking the secret occult history of this area and uncovering its continuous local tradition of witchcraft.
Download or read book The Welsh Border written by Trevor Rowley and published by Tempus Pub Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Welsh Border
Book Synopsis The March of Wales 1067-1300 by : Max Lieberman
Download or read book The March of Wales 1067-1300 written by Max Lieberman and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Writing the Welsh borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England by : Lindy Brady
Download or read book Writing the Welsh borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England written by Lindy Brady and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study of the Anglo-Welsh border region in the period before the Norman arrival in England, from the fifth to the twelfth centuries. Its conclusions significantly alter our current picture of Anglo/Welsh relations before the Norman Conquest by overturning the longstanding critical belief that relations between these two peoples during this period were predominately contentious. Writing the Welsh borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England demonstrates that the region which would later become the March of Wales was not a military frontier in Anglo-Saxon England, but a distinctively mixed Anglo-Welsh cultural zone which was depicted as a singular place in contemporary Welsh and Anglo-Saxon texts. This study reveals that the region of the Welsh borderlands was much more culturally coherent, and the impact of the Norman Conquest on it much greater, than has been previously realised.
Book Synopsis The Church and the Welsh Border in the Central Middle Ages by : Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke
Download or read book The Church and the Welsh Border in the Central Middle Ages written by Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These four major studies, thoroughly revised for this book, reflect this distinguished historian's continuing interest in relations between England and Wales in the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries. An introduction places the conclusions offered in these studies within the current framework of historical thinking about Wales in this period. The first chapter, a survey of Anglo-Welsh ecclesiastical life in the tenth and eleventh centuries, is followed by `The Archbishops of St Davids, Llandaff and Caerleon-on-Usk', in which the twelfth-century claims of certain major Welsh churches to extensive jurisdiction and the methods by which they promoted their claims are subjected to a searching analysis. In `St Peter of Gloucester and St Cadog of Llancarfan' a detailed examination is made of the complicated links which bound together the churches of Gloucester and Llancarfan from about 1100 and of the sources which reveal these ties. Finally in `Geoffrey of Monmouth as a historian' the motivation and methods of one of the most controversial personalities of the Anglo-Welsh Church are considered.
Download or read book Lost Lanes Wales written by Jack Thurston and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelling at a leisurely pace, Jack Thurston explores Wales and the border counties taking in mountain summits, enchanted woodlands, wild seashores, shimmering lakes, and ancient ways. 36 specially selected rides are presented with downloadable information.
Book Synopsis The Nations of Wales by : M. Wynn Thomas
Download or read book The Nations of Wales written by M. Wynn Thomas and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opens up a period in Welsh cultural history that has been almost completely overlooked First monograph to explore Welsh history between 1890-1914
Book Synopsis Welsh Responses to the French Revolution by : Marion Löffler
Download or read book Welsh Responses to the French Revolution written by Marion Löffler and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The serial literature current in Wales between 1789 and 1802 is the most important public repository of radical, loyalist and patriotic Welsh responses to the French Revolution and the Revolutionary Wars. This anthology presents a selection of poetry and prose published in the annual Welsh almanacs, the English provincial newspapers published close to Wales’s border and the three radical Welsh periodicals of the mid-1790s, together with translations of the Welsh texts. An extended introduction sketches out the printing culture of Wales, analyses its public discourse and interprets the Welsh voices in their British political context.
