Download or read book Life Tradition in Rural Wales written by John Geraint Jenkins and published by J.M. Dent & Sons. This book was released on 1976 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life and Traditions in Rural Wales written by John Geraint Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life and tradition in rural Wales written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Culture in Medieval Wales written by Helen Fulton and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twelve essays describes aspects of town life in medieval Wales, from the way people lived and worked to how they spent their leisure time. Drawing on evidence from historical records, archaeology and literature, twelve leading scholars outline the diversity of town life and urban identity in medieval Wales. While urban histories of Wales have charted the economic growth of towns in post-Norman Wales, much less has been written about the nature of urban culture in Wales. This book fills in some of the gaps about how people lived in towns and the kinds of cultural experience which helped to construct a Welsh urban identity.
Download or read book The Customs and Traditions of Wales written by Trefor M. Owen and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trefor M. Owen’s seminal work educates, enlightens and entertains with a far-reaching yet accessible text, which paints a colourful and comprehensive portrait of a nation’s rich folk culture. The Customs and Traditions of Wales is an illuminating and engrossing insight into a subject that continues to unfold and develop in contemporary life. Despite an increasingly globalised society that has transformed local communities, folk customs are still practised and enjoyed the world over as people combine modern-day and historical rituals and embrace opportunities to learn about their past, and Owen’s influential study has maintained its relevance as customs change and evolve.
Download or read book Welsh Lives Gone but Not Forgotten written by Meic Stephens and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of obituaries of eminent Welsh people, first published in The Independent newspaper. Amongst those included are: Stuart Cable, Huw Ceredig, Hywel Teifi Edwards, Owen Edwards, Iris Gower, Ray Gravell, W. J. Gruffydd, J. Geraint Jenkins, Margaret John, T. Llew Jones, Philip Madoc, Eluned Phillips, Aeronwy Thomas, Orig Williams and Stewart Williams.
Download or read book Rural Wales in the Twenty First Century written by Paul Milbourne and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the changing relations between people, place and environment in rural Wales in the twenty first century and provides new understandings of rural geography and rural sociology.
Download or read book Making Sense of Wales written by Graham A S Day and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2002-07-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Sense of Wales gives an account of the main changes that have taken place in Welsh society over the last fifty years, as well as analysing the major efforts to interpret those changes. By placing work done in Wales in the context of broader developments within sociological approaches over the period, Graham Day demonstrates that there is a body of work on Wales worth considering in its own right as a specific contribution to sociology. He also shows the relevance of sociological accounts of Wales for understanding contemporary empirical and theoretical concerns in social analysis. Beginning with post-war analysis which considered Wales in terms of regional planning and policy, Day shows how more theoretically informed perspectives have come to the fore in recent years. He also examines more contemporary developments, such as gender and class transformations, the emphasis on the centrality of the Welsh language for conceptions of Wales and Welshness, as well as the impact of new forms of governance and questions of social exclusion.
Download or read book Life in a Welsh Countryside written by Alwyn D. Rees and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Agrarian History of England and Wales written by Edward John T. Collins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unifying theme of this volume is the changing role of the countryside in national life, and the impact upon it of the social and economic forces unleashed by industrialisation and the growth of towns.
Download or read book The Use of Tradition written by Alan Gailey and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of Plant Lore written by D.C. Watts and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2007-05-02 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge of plant names can give insight into largely forgotten beliefs. For example, the common red poppy is known as "Blind Man" due to an old superstitious belief that if the poppy were put to the eyes it would cause blindness. Many plant names derived from superstition, folk lore, or primal beliefs. Other names are purely descriptive and can serve to explain the meaning of the botanical name. For example, Beauty-Berry is the name given to the American shrub that belongs to the genus Callicarpa. Callicarpa is Greek for beautiful fruit. Still other names come from literary sources providing rich detail of the transmission of words through the ages.Conceived as part of the author's wider interest in plant and tree lore and ethnobotanical studies, this fully revised edition of Elsevier's Dictionary of Plant Names and Their Origins contains over 30,000 vernacular and literary English names of plants. Wild and cultivated plants alike are identified by the botanical name. Further detail provides a brief account of the meaning of the name and detailed commentary on common usage. * Includes color images * Inclusive of all Latin terms with vernacular derivatives * The most comprehensive guide for plant scientists, linguists, botanists, and historians
Download or read book Living in Rural Wales written by Noragh Jones and published by Gomer Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Welsh Fasting Girl written by Varley O'Connor and published by Bellevue Literary Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the Previous Novels of Varley O’Connor “Thoroughly researched and lively.” —Vogue “Elegantly wrought, hardheaded, and tenderhearted.” —Michael Chabon “Honesty and compassion inform every page, and there are passages so musical and full of grace they read like hymns. Reading groups should rejoice.” —Sigrid Nunez “[O’Connor] captures the dangerous intersection between private life and the forces of history . . . and gives the reader that rare pleasure of inhabiting another family life that feels at once entirely familiar and new.” —Susan Richards Shreve Twelve-year-old Sarah Jacob was the most famous of the Victorian fasting girls, who claimed to miraculously survive without food, serving as flashpoints between struggling religious, scientific, and political factions. In this novel based on Sarah’s life and premature death from what may be the first documented case of anorexia, an American journalist, recovering from her husband’s death in the Civil War, leaves her home and children behind to travel to Wales, where she investigates Sarah’s bizarre case by becoming the young girl’s friend and confidante. Unable to prevent the girl’s tragic decline while doctors, nurses, and a local priest keep watch, she documents the curious family dynamic, the trial that convicted Sarah’s parents, and an era’s hysterical need to both believe and destroy Sarah’s seemingly miraculous power. Intense, dark, and utterly compelling, The Welsh Fasting Girl delves into the complexities of a true story to understand how a culture’s anxieties led to the murder of a child. Varley O’Connor is the author of five novels, including The Welsh Fasting Girl, The Master’s Muse, and The Cure. She lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
Download or read book The Sociology of Rural Life written by Sam Hillyard and published by Berg. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From fox-hunting to farming, the vigor with which rural activities and living are defended overturns received notions of a sleepy and complacent countryside. Alongside these developments, the rise of the organic food movement has helped to revitalize an already politicized rural population. Over the years 'rural life' has been defined, redefined and eventually fallen out of fashion as a sociological concept - in contrast to urban studies, which has flourished. This much-needed reappraisal calls for its reinterpretation in light of the profound changes affecting the countryside. First providing an overview of rural sociology, Hillyard goes on to offer contemporary case studies that clearly demonstrate the need for a reinvigorated rural sociology. Tackling a range of contentious issues, this book offers a new model for rural sociology and reassesses its role in contemporary society. A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org
Download or read book Welsh Cottage the Building Traditions of the Rural Poor 1750 1900 written by Eurwyn Wiliam and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astudiaeth o gartrefi tlodion cefn gwlad Cymru yn y ddeunawfed ganrif a'r bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg, gan dalu sylw arbennig i'r defnyddiau, y technegau a'r prosesau a ddefnyddid i'w codi, a hynny wedi'i seilio ar dystiolaeth yr adeiladau eu hunain ac ar ddogfennau a disgrifiadau cyfoes. Dros 200 o luniau lliw a du a gwyn. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Download or read book Tradition and Folk Life written by Iorwerth Cyfeiliog Peate and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
