Author: Ifano JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Printers
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A History of Printing and Printers in Wales to 1810, and of Successive and Related Printers to 1923
Author: Ifano JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Printers
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution
Author: Ffion Mair JonesPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708324622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution provides for the first time an edition, with parallel English translations, of Welsh-language ballads composed in reaction to the momentous events of the Revolution in France and the two decades of war which followed. Ballad writers were first spurred to respond in 1793, when the French monarchs were executed, France declared war upon Britain, and paranoia regarding the possible threat of internal revolt in Britain reached a crisis point. As the decade proceeded, ballads were sung in thanks for the victory of British forces and local people against an invasion of Pembrokeshire by French troops, and in reaction to key naval battles and to the extensive mobilization of militia and volunteer forces. Scholars working on the British response to the Revolution have showed increasing interest in exploring the contents of ballads and songs. The ballad in particular is seen as a vital source of information, since it represents ordinary people's awareness of the developments of the period. Balladry is also subject to continued research within Welsh scholarship, and this volume, with its focus on a clearly defined historical period and its revelation of new voices within the canon of Welsh ballad writers, will drive this field of study forwards. Regional reactions to the Revolution within the British Isles are also now seen as crucially important, but Wales, partly because of the inaccessibility of material composed in the Welsh language, has repeatedly been omitted from the general picture. This volume aids in rectifying this situation, ensuring (by use of translation, copious contextualizing notes, and a lengthy introduction) that both the ballad genre and Welsh reactions receive the attention they deserve from the wider scholarly community.
South Wales and the Rising of 1839
Author: Ivor WilksPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131724074X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
First published in 1984, this book provides the first full study of the carefully planned rising of south Wales miners and ironworkers in 1839 and of its collapse at the confrontation with soldiers of the 45th regiment of Newport. It examines not only the rising itself, but the factors that made it, if not inevitable, then likely. It argues that while the workers’ movement was an immediate response to the grim circumstances of the workplace, it was also deeply rooted in the centuries-old Welsh experience of repression. This title will be of particular interest to students of Victorian political and social history and well as the history of Wales.
Welsh Responses to the French Revolution
Author: Marion LöfflerPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708324908
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
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.
Archaeologia Cambrensis
Author: Library Association Record
Author: Library AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Proceedings of the 22d-33d annual conference of the Library Association in v. 1-12; proceedings of the 34th-44th, 47th-57th annual conference issued as a supplement to v. 13-23, new ser. v. 3-ser. 4, v. 1.
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author: Memory and Modern British Politics
Author: Matthew RobertsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350190470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This edited collection explores absence, presence and remembrance in British political culture and memory studies. Comprehensive in its scope, it covers the entire modern period, bringing together the 19th and 20th centuries as well as Britain, Ireland and the Atlantic World. As the first comparative and in-depth study to explore the central and contested place of memory and the invention of tradition in modern British politics, chapters include memorialisation, statue-mania, anniversaries and on the wider impact and invoking of 'dead generations'. In doing so, this book provides a new, exciting and accessible way of engaging with the history of British political culture.
Isis
Author: George SartonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
"Brief table of contents of vols. I-XX" in v. 21, p. [502]-618.
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