Download or read book The Rhondda Our Valley written by Brian Pattimore and published by Titan Inkorp Limited. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Father was a Welsh miner and worked in four mines before being disabled from the mines at the age of 19. I am writing this book in memory of my Father and all Miners. I am proud to be a miner's son in this book I hope to share some of the history of the Rhondda Valley along with some of my poetry. I live in Southampton but still have strong family ties with the Rhondda and return as often as I can. My Father was born in Dinas and I remember as a child I would play on the pipe going over the river to Dinas Station I can still visualize the row of miners cottages before they were pulled down and flats replaced them About the Author Hello I would like to introduce myself I am Brian Pattimore and come from a mining background from the Rhondda Valley. My Father was born in Dinas and my Mother was born in London moved to Wales during the war and met my Father. I was born in Bracknell Berkshire (cant help where I was born) but have always classed myself as Welsh. As a child I spent a lot of time in the Valleys growing up and stayed with my Uncle Davey and Aunty Mary at Harcombe Road Llwynypia. I still have family in the Rhondda and visit when I can. I always say that I'm going home I hope you enjoy this book a combination of facts about the Rhondda and some poems I have wrote about Wales. I am married to Ruth and have four daughters and eleven grandchildren
Download or read book How Black Was My Valley written by Brad Evans and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a searing insight and honest portrayal of post-industrial communities ravaged by decades of abandonment, How Black Was My Valley is the story of lives defined by poverty, catastrophe and the fading dreams of better futures. How Black Was My Valley is a people's history of the former mining communities of South Wales. Weaving together the personal with the political, it offers a damning depiction of the hardship and suffering, the tragedy and pain, as a politically abandoned people went from powering the British Empire and the Great Wars, to a broken post-industrial community, lost in time. It travels with devastating and yet humane insight across the dark shadows of the valley’s history. In doing so, it deals with disaster and resistance; memory and landscapes of despair; the brutal past and the neglected present; hardship and poverty; unemployment and isolation; lack of opportunity and the normalisation of hopelessness; death and suffering; structural violence and everyday subjugation; onto the crises of white male subjectivity and the exponential rise in drug abuse and personal suicide, whose troubling effects can no longer be easily contained within its mountainous walls. This is not a story of resilience. Instead, readers are taken on a journey into an open wound, whose once silent screams can no longer be ignored.
Download or read book Up the Rhondda written by John Geraint and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this kaleidoscopic portrait, John Geraint captures with a filmmaker's eye the exuberant life of this former mining community in changing times. Comic and evocative, the book shows how the values the valley has lived by could guide the Rhondda - and the wider world - towards a better future.
Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Long Field written by Pamela Petro and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of H Is for Hawk, an intimate memoir of belonging and loss and a mesmerizing travelogue through the landscapes and language of Wales Hiraeth is a Welsh word that's famously hard to translate. Literally, it can mean "long field" but generally translates into English, inadequately, as "homesickness." At heart, hiraeth suggests something like a bone-deep longing for an irretrievable place, person, or time—an acute awareness of the presence of absence. In The Long Field, Pamela Petro braids essential hiraeth stories of Wales with tales from her own life—as an American who found an ancient home in Wales, as a gay woman, as the survivor of a terrible AMTRAK train crash, and as the daughter of a parent with dementia. Through the pull and tangle of these stories and her travels throughout Wales, hiraeth takes on radical new meanings. There is traditional hiraeth of place and home, but also queer hiraeth; and hiraeth triggered by technology, immigration, ecological crises, and our new divisive politics. On this journey, the notion begins to morph from a uniquely Welsh experience to a universal human condition, from deep longing to the creative responses to loss that Petro sees as the genius of Welsh culture. It becomes a tool to understand ourselves in our time. A finalist for the Wales Book of the Year Award and named to the Telegraph's and Financial Times's Top 10 lists for travel writing, The Long Field is an unforgettable exploration of “the hidden contours of the human heart.”
Download or read book The Allotment Almanac written by Terry Walton and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate guide for all keen gardeners and allotmenteers - The Allotment Almanac by BBC Radio 2 gardener Terry Walton gives key advice on what to do each month, key crops, main tasks and top tips of varieties and is shot through with distilled hard-won experience. Entertaining and informative, you won't need anything else! 'The perfect companion for any allotmenteer, and with Terry Walton, you can't go wrong. His friendly advice will guide you each month, with exactly what you should do on your plot' -- English Garden 'This super little book... for all keen gardeners, especially allotmenteers, who will appreciate the tales but also get some useful tips' -- Kitchen Garden 'What a lovely little book. Takes you through month by month and really well illustrated. Really pleased with it' -- ***** Reader review 'The only companion you will need in the allotment' -- ***** Reader review 'A VERY good book, written from the heart, by a knowledgeable gardener' -- ***** Reader review 'A must-have for gardeners' -- ***** Reader review 'As you read this book you feel Terry at your side chatting to you as if on the plot together - a real joy' -- ***** Reader review **************************************************************************************** From a gardener who has been working on his allotment for over 50 years, this is a brilliant guide to organic vegetable growing and allotment life in general. Month-by-month BBC Radio 2 gardener Terry Walton give us invaluable advice on: - things to do each month - what to watch out for - key crops for the month - top variety tips In addition to this, he peppers this with tales of life on his allotment, creating a charming and heart-warming guide. Taking the gardening reader by the hand and leading them through the gardening year, Terry is the perfect companion, giving technical help, quick tips, reassurance, and plenty of entertainment along the way. What are you waiting for?
Download or read book Minutes of Evidence written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Labour and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the 4th session of the 28th Parliament through the session of the Parliament.
Download or read book A History of Modern Wales 1536 1990 written by Philip Jenkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich in detail but vigorous, authoritative and unsentimental, A History of Modern Wales is a comprehensive and unromanticised examination of Wales as it was and is. It stresses both the long-term continuities in Welsh history, and also the significant regional differences within the principality.
Download or read book An Audience with Queen Victoria written by Ian Lloyd and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Britain's most famous and longest serving rulers, Queen Victoria saw widespread change across her empire. During her sixty-three-year reign, in which she became one of the most powerful and influential people in the world, Victoria met everyone from Florence Nightingale to 'Buffalo Bill', as well as royalty from around the world with whom she exchanged truly unique gifts. After meeting the exalted monarch her subjects often recorded their impressions of her, sometimes favourable and sometimes not, and she wasn't shy with her opinion either. The records range from her less than enamoured assessment of 'Greatest Showman' P.T. Barnum and her opinions about Jack the Ripper, to how much she enjoyed Jane Eyre and the affection she held for her family. An Audience with Queen Victoria examines the meetings and letters exchanged between the Queen and a veritable 'who's who' of her time. Through brand-new archival research, newspapers and interviews with descendants, sit right alongside Victoria and, for the first time, experience queenship from her perspective.
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Download or read book The Rough Guide to Wales written by Catherine Le Nevez and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-colour throughout, The Rough Guide to Wales is the ultimate guide to this beautiful country. With 30 years experience and our trademark 'tell it like it is' writing style, Rough Guides cover all the basics with practical, on-the-ground details, as well as unmissable alternatives to the usual must-see sights. At the top of your list and guaranteed to get you value for money, each guide also reviews the best accommodation and restaurants in all price brackets. We know there are times for saving, and times for splashing out. In The Rough Guide to Wales: - Over 50 colour-coded maps featuring every listing - Area-by-area chapter highlights - Top 5 boxes - Things not to miss section Make the most of your trip with The Rough Guide to Wales. Now available in ePub format.
Download or read book Sessional Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Wales written by Rough Guides and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth edition of the Rough Guide to Wales is the ultimate travel guide to this incredibly varied country, with stunning photography throughout. Whether you want to trek the Pembrokeshire Coast Path or let loose at Green Man festival, have a slap-up meal in foodie Abergavenny or chug through the Snowdonia mountains on the Ffestiniog Railway, you'll find all the practical details and inspiring ideas you'll need. Spanning the length and breadth of Wales, from tiny valley towns to bustling cities, this is the most comprehensive guide to the country. Plan your trip using our colour-coded maps and up-to-date listings on the best places to stay, eat and drink in every corner of Wales. Whether you want detailed background or a quick idea of the highlights of each region, The Rough Guide to Wales has it all. Make the most of your time on EarthTM with The Rough Guide to Wales.
