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By: Matthew Jarvis
ISBN: 9780708314821
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2000
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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Part of a series of volumes outlining the history and development of Welsh literature from its beginnings in the 6th century to the late 20th century. This volume provides a critical introduction to the literature of the Welsh language in the 18th century.
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By: Hywel Teifi Edwards
ISBN: 9780708316054
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2000
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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This book offers an introduction in English to the Welsh-language literature of the 19th century. It covers important individual writers of prose and poetry, the lyric poetic tradition and the eisteddfod poets, travel writing, periodicals and newspapers, fiction, criticism and political commentary.
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By: M. Wynn Thomas
ISBN: 9780708316795
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2003
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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Presenting a balanced picture of a bicultural country, this volume traces the emergence in 20th-century Wales, of an anglophone literature of considerable quality. The book captures the history of Anglo-Welsh literature in a comprehensive manner and is presented by a team of critics and scholars.
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By: David Jones
ISBN: 9781786838216
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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A one-volume history of Christianity in Wales, from its Roman origins to the present.
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By: Gareth Elwyn Jones
ISBN: 9780708318072
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2003
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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Describing its main features from the Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century, this is a concise general history of education in Wales which shows how the system of education in Wales has evolved.
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By: J. Beverley Smith
ISBN: 9780708317099
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2002
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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This text describes the history of Merioneth in its several aspects from the period of the early Welsh rulers to the end of the sixteenth century.
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By: D. T. W. Price
ISBN: 9780708306062
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1977
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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By: D. T. W. Price
ISBN: 9780708310625
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1990
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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By: Martin Johnes
ISBN: 9780708319468
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2006
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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A brand new Pocket Guide which charts the concise history of sport in Wales since 1800. The book locates the character and structure of sport within the wider social, political and economic context that shaped it.
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By: D. Gareth Evans
ISBN: 9780708315538
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2000
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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This text will cover four main areas of change during the 20th century: the political scene, social changes, economic developments and culture and educational features.
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By: D. Gareth Evans
ISBN: 9780708315941
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2000
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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This text will cover four main areas of change during the 20th century: the political scene, social changes, economic developments and culture and educational features.
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By: E. D. Evans
ISBN: 9780708306246
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1979
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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By: Stephen Knight
ISBN: 9780708318461
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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Explores and analyzes the Anglophone fiction of Wales in the 20th century. It looks at writers who deal with Welsh life and issues and asks how they relate to the determining forces of their period and contexts, from the economy and politics to concepts of Welsh identity and the colonial situation.
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By: Meic Stephens
ISBN: 9780708311684
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1993
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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By: Peter Miskell
ISBN: 9780708318782
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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"A Social History of the Cinema in Wales" offers a perspective on the place of cinema in Welsh popular culture. The 'golden age' of cinema entertainment is now half a century behind us, yet it continues to linger in popular memory.
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By: William Rees
ISBN: 9780708301173
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1953
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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By: Richard W Ireland
ISBN: 9780708319451
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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Investigating the operation of Carmarthen Gaol in the period 1840-1877, this book provides an account of the relationship between a local gaol, its staff and its prisoners, and the community in which it was situated. Crime came to be presented as a national, and not a local problem. It discusses issues of state and penal development.
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By: Stephen J. Williams
ISBN: 9780708307373
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 1993
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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By: Don Dale-Jones
ISBN: 9780708311509
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1992
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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(Hardback)
By: Keith Robbins
ISBN: 9780708306222
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1980
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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(Hardback)
By: Haydn Jones
ISBN: 9780708308820
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1985
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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By: Peter Stead
ISBN: 9780708316238
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2003
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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This work examines the Welsh acting tradition. Although lacking a metropolitan centre, a culture developed in which both chapels and schools encouraged recitations and performances. Each chapter evokes an actor and assesses their work, career and contribution made to film and theatre in general.
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By: T. I. Jeffreys Jones
ISBN: 9780708305485
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1959
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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By: Caryl Davies
ISBN: 9780708315705
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2000
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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A study of the history of linguistic thoughts and attitudes in Wales during the eighteenth century, noting particularly the rich contribution of Welsh scholars to developments in the field of linguistics in Europe by raising awareness of the Celtic languages and their relationship with other European languages.
