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Book Wales  1880 1914

    Book Details:
  • Author : Trevor Herbert
  • Publisher : Cardiff : University of Wales Press
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Wales 1880 1914 written by Trevor Herbert and published by Cardiff : University of Wales Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wales 1880 1914

Download or read book Wales 1880 1914 written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wales

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  • Author : Gillian HARPER
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Wales written by Gillian HARPER and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book For Women  For Wales and For Liberalism

Download or read book For Women For Wales and For Liberalism written by Ursula Masson and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the neglected history of women who were active in Liberal politics, campaigning for women's rights, the vote, and a full role for women in Welsh public life, at the end of the nineteenth century, and before the First World War. The over-arching argument of the book is that Welsh women's Liberal politics was distinctive, in its attempt to integrate an understanding of Liberalism which they shared with their English counterparts, and which included the aim of full equality for women, with a distinctively Welsh political agenda, and constructions of Welsh national identity. These constructions sometimes included a positive view of women in the nation, but in times of political crisis redefined gender on a more reactionary model.

Book The Age of Decadence

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  • Author : Simon Heffer
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2021-04-06
  • ISBN : 1643136712
  • Pages : 912 pages

Download or read book The Age of Decadence written by Simon Heffer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly detailed history of Britain at its imperial zenith, revealing the simmering tensions and explosive rivalries beneath the opulent surface of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. The popular memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly, and thriving country. Britain commanded a vast empire: she bestrode international commerce. Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil liberties their grandparents only dreamed of and enjoying an expanding range of comforts and pastimes. The mood of pride and self-confidence can be seen in Edward Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance marches, newsreels of George V’s coronation, and London’s great Edwardian palaces. Yet beneath the surface things were very different In The Age of Decadence, Simon Heffer exposes the contradictions of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain. He explains how, despite the nation’s massive power, a mismanaged war against the Boers in South Africa created profound doubts about her imperial destiny. He shows how attempts to secure vital social reforms prompted the twentieth century’s gravest constitutional crisis—and coincided with the worst industrial unrest in British history. He describes how politicians who conceded the vote to millions more men disregarded women so utterly that female suffragists’ public protest bordered on terrorism. He depicts a ruling class that fell prey to degeneracy and scandal. He analyses a national psyche that embraced the motor-car, the sensationalist press, and the science fiction of H. G. Wells, but also the nostalgia of A. E. Housman.

Book Women   s Writing from Wales before 1914

Download or read book Women s Writing from Wales before 1914 written by Jane Aaron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay collection rediscovers and reassesses a host of still little-known, pre-1914, Welsh women writers. In the last few decades considerable advances have been made towards rediscovering, contextualising, and analysing women’s writing from Wales. The combined influences of the post-1960s women’s movement, the 1990s Welsh devolution successes, and the development of the ‘Four Nations’ school of British literary criticism, have together effected significant advances in the field of Welsh feminist literary studies. This book focuses in particular on: the fifteenth- to eighteenth-century Welsh-language bards, such as Gwerful Mechain, Angharad James, and Marged Dafydd; the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English-language poets, including Katherine Philips, Jane Brereton, Anne Penny, and Anne Hughes; contributors to the Romantic movement in Wales, such as the poets and novelists Mary Robinson and Ann of Swansea; the mid-nineteenth-century protesting voice of polemicists such as Jane Williams (Ysgafell); the Victorian English-language novelists, for example Louisa Matilda Spooner, Anne Beale, Amy Dillwyn, Allen Raine, and Mallt Williams, and their concern with national, class, and gender identities; and early twentieth-century Welsh-language writers engaged with Welsh Home Rule and women’s suffrage issues, such as Gwyneth Vaughan and Eluned Morgan. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women's Writing. Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

Book Welsh history and its sources

Download or read book Welsh history and its sources written by The Open University and published by The Open University. This book was released on with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 25-hour free course explored teaching and learning resources for understanding Welsh history and the way it is studied.

Book Wales and Socialism

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  • Author : Martin Wright
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Wales and Socialism written by Martin Wright and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Opposition to the Great War in Wales 1914 1918

Download or read book The Opposition to the Great War in Wales 1914 1918 written by Aled Eirug and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Original research and unprecedented knowledge provided about the conscientious objectors from Wales during the Great War. - In-depth original description and analysis of the activity of the pacifist anti-war movement in Wales and its extent, including the activity of the Fellowship of Reconciliation and key chapels and ministers. - In depth original description and analysis of the political anti-war movement, including the Independent Labour Party and the left within the South Wales Miners Federation. It assesses the impact of the the anti-war movement in key areas in Wales such as Merthyr Tydfil and Briton Ferry, where the ILP was strongest.

Book Graduate Women and Work in Wales  1880   1939

Download or read book Graduate Women and Work in Wales 1880 1939 written by Beth Jenkins and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the social backgrounds, educational experiences and subsequent lives of women who attended the university colleges in Wales from their inception to the outbreak of the Second World War. Using a sample of 2,000 graduates, the book foregrounds the experience of working-class women and critically assesses the claim of social inclusivity built around education in Wales. It charts changes and continuities in women’s career prospects; explores graduates’ relationship with the communities in which they studied, lived, and worked; and, finally, examines the extensive networks which underpinned their personal and professional lives.

Book  Yn Llawn O D  n Cymreig   full of Welsh Fire

Download or read book Yn Llawn O D n Cymreig full of Welsh Fire written by Neil Evans and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book For Women  For Wales and For Liberalism

Download or read book For Women For Wales and For Liberalism written by Ursula Masson and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the neglected history of women who were active in Liberal politics, campaigning for women’s rights, the vote, and a full role for women in Welsh public life, at the end of the nineteenth century, and before the First World War. The over-arching argument of the book is that Welsh women’s Liberal politics was distinctive, in its attempt to integrate an understanding of Liberalism which they shared with their English counterparts, and which included the aim of full equality for women, with a distinctively Welsh political agenda, and constructions of Welsh national identity. These constructions sometimes included a positive view of women in the nation, but in times of political crisis redefined gender on a more reactionary model.

Book A History of Modern Wales 1536 1990

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.

Book High Society

Download or read book High Society written by Pamela Horn and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Women s Movement in New South Wales

Download or read book The Women s Movement in New South Wales written by Joan E. Cobb and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Miners  Houses

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  • Author : M. J. Daunton
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Miners Houses written by M. J. Daunton and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Wales

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  • Author : John Graham Jones
  • Publisher : University of Wales Press
  • Release : 2014-11-15
  • ISBN : 1783161698
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book The History of Wales written by John Graham Jones and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an engaging, best-selling volume reproduced with text panels that provide brief biographies of historical figures and descriptions of major historical sites in Wales. As the only concise history of Wales currently available in print, this book is an ideal introductory study for the general reader. From primitive Stone Age cave-dwellers who were the earliest recorded inhabitants of Wales, through settlement by the Celts before the Roman and Norman invasions, this book leads the reader through the age of the native Welsh princes that culminated with the eventual conquest of Wales by Edward I in 1282. Later seminal themes include the passage of the so-called Union legislations of 1536 and 1543, the impact of successive religious changes, the agrarian and industrial revolutions, and the severe interwar depression of the twentieth century. This new edition concludes with a discussion of the far-reaching political, social and economic changes covering the momentous period from the close of the twentieth century to the present day.