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Sir John Perrot of Carew, Pembrokeshire was Lord Deputy of Ireland, member of parliament and member of the Queen's privy council. It is speculated that he was also the illegitimate son of Henry VIII. He dominated the political stage in Wales and Ireland and was, in the words of Sir Glanmor Williams, 'a man of Shakespearean proportions'.

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During Iolo Morganwg's lifetime Britain was obsessed with literary forgery. This book reveals the unexpected connections and hidden influences behind Britain's most successful (and hence, perhaps, least visible) Romantic forger. It explores Iolo's own strongly-held ideas about the Truth-historical, literary and religious.

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This volume covers the history of, and the prospects for, the United Nations. In particular, it explores the contributions made by Welshmen.

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The Uses of this World examines how early modern theatre texts dramatize the ways in which cultural space is produced. It demonstrates that the theatre engaged fully with the fundamental change in the social and philosophical organization of space which took place in this period.

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This text explains and assesses the achievements of the Wales TUC: the rundown of the coal and steel industries, the decline in manufacturing jobs, the growth of white-collar employment and unions, the Thatcher and Major years of high unemployment and industrial law reform, and the increasing numbers of low-paid part-time workers.

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A reference work about Wales, it contains entries on various kinds of people and places which have made it so culturally, historically and geographically rich. It also covers topics ranging from: Snowdonia to the pampas of Patagonia, folk heroes to Welsh Olympians, and the men and women of Wales who have excelled in art, culture and politics.

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This English-Welsh dictionary - modelled on the "Harrap Shorter French" dictionary - includes synonyms; illustrative quotations; idioms; accentuation; specialist and technical terms; regional variants; literary and colloquial registers; as well as place-names and personal names.

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This study of the religious establishment in Wales and its impact on Welsh society in the three centuries leading up to the disestablishment continues the approach to Welsh church history begun by Sir Glanmor Williams in his 'Welsh Church and the Reformation' and continued in his 'Wales and the Reformation'.

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Based on official data and in-depth interviews, this urgent and challenging book provides the first academic account of the operation of the Welsh criminal justice system a system that presides over some of the worst criminal justice outcomes in western Europe.

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Containing a variety of tales from Wales, a land rich in folklore and fairy stories, this book will be of interest to both young readers and old.

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Presents the history of the little known Welsh immigrant communities in the American Midwestern state of Iowa. This book identifies what made the Welsh unique as immigrants to North America, and as migrants and settlers in a land built on such groups.

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Examines how the Welsh became absorbed into London's population yet retained aspects of Welsh culture from language to Eisteddfod, through societies. The study begins with the earliest contacts with the Welsh in Tudor London to the renaissance of Welsh literature in the 18th century.

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Examines how the Welsh became absorbed into London's population yet retained aspects of Welsh culture from language to Eisteddfod, through societies. The study begins with the earliest contacts with the Welsh in Tudor London to the renaissance of Welsh literature in the 18th century.

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This study concentrates on 20 communities, chosen for their geographical, economic and linguistic characteristics whic in 1891, accounted for about 5 per cent of the total population of Wales.

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The Welsh language is the oldest living European language. This volume surveys the social history of the language in modern times. Its political status is considered, together with the use of Welsh in the courts, and in religion, education and scholarship. The promotion of Welsh is also discussed.

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Methodism has been highly influential in Wales and in the wider world. This volume helps explain its appeal and influence by exploring the background and experiences of early members in south-west Wales, and what drew them to the movement.