Author: Thomas Owen MORGANPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
New Guide to Aberystwith and Its Environs ... With Illustrations
The Impact of the Edwardian Castles in Wales
Author: Diane WilliamsPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1782973672
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
The Impact of the Edwardian Castles in Wales publishes the proceedings of a conference held in 2007, a year that marked the seventh centenary of the death of King Edward I, which set out to review recent scholarship on castles that he built in north Wales after two wars, in 1277 and 1282-83 and a Welsh uprising in 1294-95, and to rethink the effect that their building had upon Wales in the past, present and future. Building upon the seminal work of Arnold Taylor, whose study of the buildings and documentary evidence has been pivotal to Edwardian castle studies for more than fifty years, the volume includes papers which call into question the role of Master James of St George as the architect of the kings new castles; the role of Richard the Engineer, the nature of royal accommodation in the thirteenth century and a detailed look at how households worked, especially in the kitchen and accounting departments. New approaches to castle studies are encouraging a more holistic understanding of the Edwardian castles and their context and to this end papers consider their impact on Welsh society and its princes in the thirteenth century, notably Llywelyn ab Iorwerth ( Fawr , the Great) and his grandson, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, prince of Wales. Their symbolism and meaning through the words of Welsh poets and the mythology behind Caernarfon Castle are also examined, so too is the role of Welshmen in Edward Is armies. The wider context is considered with papers on the Edwardian towns in Wales, the baronial castles in north Wales and Edward I in Scotland and Gascony. The castles still have powerful resonance and the Minister for Heritage in the Welsh Assembly Government considers their role and presentation in Wales today and in the future. Robert Liddiard concludes that the volume 'not only takes our knowledge of the Edwardian castles forward, but also informs the study of castles in the British Isles'.
The Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies
Author: University of Wales. Board of Celtic StudiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bards and bardism
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Includes glosses of the Welsh language, bardic vocabulary, etc.
Ceredigion
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cardiganshire (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to London and Its Environs
Author: Ward, Lock & Co., Ltd (Londres)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Archaeologia Cambrensis
Author: Transactions and Papers
Author: Institute of British GeographersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Seaside, Health and the Environment in England and Wales since 1800
Author: John HassanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351882198
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
The seaside has always held a special position in British history as a place of rest, relaxation and recuperation. Over the last 200 years many have made their way to the coast, attracted by the long sunshine hours, the clean ozone-charged air and the opportunities for bathing in and even drinking sea-water. Although the early health resort ideal began to give way to more pleasure orientated themes in the nineteenth century, the seaside holiday was still regarded by many as a wholesome and invigorating break from inland urban life well into the twentieth century. Yet with ever increasing numbers of visitors and rising levels of coastal pollution, this was by no means a forgone conclusion. The Seaside, Health and the Environment in England and Wales since 1800 explores the ways in which English seaside resorts continually reinvented themselves to take account of contemporary trends in popular leisure and maintain their hold on the public's imagination. Particular account is paid to the interwar years when new obsessions with outdoor activities such as sunbathing and tanning were purposefully adopted by the industry to define the modern image of the resort holiday. For these and other reasons the seaside holiday reached new peaks of popularity in the 1930s and 1950s, yet, this very success placed enormous pressures on the environmental amenities that people came to enjoy. As this work shows, environmental stresses were manifold, particularly pollution of the resorts' prime assets, their beaches. As such, serious questions are raised concerning why it took such a long time for a determined effort to be made to reverse beach pollution, and the lessons to be learned regarding the impact of negative images of the coast as a zone of danger and infection.
The Towns of Wales
Author: Harold CarterPublisher: Cardiff : University of Wales Press
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Author: