Geraint H. Jenkins

How Big Is Big F+G

The Welsh language is the oldest living European language. This volume surveys the social history of the language in modern times. Its political status is considered, together with the use of Welsh in the courts, and in religion, education and scholarship. The promotion of the status of Welsh is also discussed, to counteract the stigma attached to it by the language clause of 1536.

The Welsh Language Before the Industrial Revolution

Richard Suggett

Eryn Mant White

Cardiganshire County History Volume 2 is published by the University of Wales Press on behalf of the Ceredigion Historical Society, in association with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. This volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative account, written by distinguished authors in fifteen chapters, of the wide range of social, economic, political, religious and cultural forces that shaped the ethos and character of the county of Cardiganshire over a period of 600 years. This was a period of great turbulence and change. It witnessed conquest and castle-building, the impact of the Glyndŵr rebellion, the coming of the Protestant Reformation, and the turmoil of civil war. Over time, the inhabitants of the county developed a sense of themselves as a distinctive people who dwelt in a recognisable entity. From very early on, literate people took pride in their native patch; in the eyes of the learned Sulien (d. 1091) and his sons, the land of Ceredig was a sacred patria. Poets and scribes burnished the reputation of the county, and a vibrant poem by Siôn Morys in 1577 maintained that it was the best of shires and ‘the fold of the generous ones’.

Medieval and Early Modern Cardiganshire

Cardiganshire County History Volume 2

Mari A. Williams

Mari A. Jenkins

The sixth volume of an authoritative series presenting a penetrating analysis of the social history of the Welsh language during the 20th century, comprising 21 essays by renowned scholars based on thorough research exploring the negative and affirmative aspects of the Welsh language in literary and religious, political and legal, educational and cultural fields.

The Welsh Language in the Twentieth Century

Let's Do Our Best for the Ancient Tongue

Literature, Religion and Society in Wales, 1660-1730

Based on the most recent historical research and current debates about Wales and Welshness, this volume offers the most up-to-date, authoritative and accessible account of the period from Neanderthal times to the opening of the Senedd, the new home of the National Assembly for Wales, in 2006. Within a remarkably brief and stimulating compass, Geraint H. Jenkins explores the emergence of Wales as a nation, its changing identities and values, and the transformations its people experienced and survived throughout the centuries. In the face of seemingly overwhelming odds, the Welsh never reconciled themselves to political, social and cultural subordination, and developed ingenious ways of maintaining a distinctive sense of their otherness. The book ends with the coming of political devolution and the emergence of a greater measure of cultural pluralism. Professor Jenkins's lavishly illustrated volume provides enthralling material for scholars, students, general readers, and travellers to Wales.

A Concise History of Wales

A volume containing a collection of essays by a wide range of leading scholars, based on the rich unpublished material in the Iolo Morganwg papers at the National Library of Wales; the first volume in an inspiring and interdisciplinary series on the most extraordinary figure in the cultural history of Wales. A hardback version was published in October 2005.

The Many Faces of Iolo Morganwg

A Rattleskull Genius

John Trelawny

Sir John Trelawny

The Parliamentary Diaries of Sir John Trelawny, 1858-1865

This is the first full-scale study of the political radicalism of Iolo Morganwg, the renowned Welsh romantic whose colourful life as a Glamorgan stonemason, poet, writer, political activist and humanitarian made him one of the founders of modern Wales. This path-breaking volume offers a vivid portrait of a natural contrarian who tilted against the forces of the establishment for the whole of his adult life. Known as the ‘Bard of Liberty’ or the ’little republican bard’, he moved in highly-politicized circles, embraced republicanism, founded the Gorsedd of the Bards of the Isle of Britain, threw in his lot with Unitarians, promoted a sense of cultural nationalism, and supported the anti-slave trade campaign and the anti-war movement during years of war, oppression and cruelty.

The Political Radicalism of Iolo Morganwg

Bard of Liberty

D. P. Kirby

Ieuan Gwynedd Jones

J. L. Davies

A reprint of the first volume of a comprehensive history of Cardiganshire from earliest times to the coming of the Normans, comprising interesting contributions by eminent scholars on geology and vegetation, archaeology and history, land settlements and early society in the county. 75 maps and diagrams and 38 black-and-white photographs. First published in 1994.

Cardiganshire County History: From the earliest times to the coming of the Normans

This is the first full-scale study of the political radicalism of Iolo Morganwg, the renowned Welsh romantic whose colourful life as a Glamorgan stonemason, poet, writer, political activist and humanitarian made him one of the founders of modern Wales . This path-breaking volume offers a vivid portrait of a natural contrarian who tilted against the forces of the establishment for the whole of his adult life. Known as the "Bard of Liberty" or the 'little republican bard', he moved in highly-politicized circles, embraced republicanism, founded the Gorsedd of the Bards of the Isle of Britain, threw in his lot with Unitarians, promoted a sense of cultural nationalism, and supported the anti-slave trade campaign and the anti-war movement during years of war, oppression and cruelty.

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