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Time: 25 hours
Level: Introductory
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 Introduction Resource- This unit is a teaching and learning resource for anyone interested in Welsh history. It contains study materials, links to some of the most important institutions that contribute to our understanding...
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- How the unit works and what it contains Resource
- This unit has been designed to help anyone with an interest in the history of Wales to find key information and to begin understanding the way that historians of Wales do their work. It is aimed both at...
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| | 2 Welsh history: text resources
- 2.1 Introduction Resource
- Each of the selections in this section is taken from one of the volumes in the Welsh History and its Sources series. Each book contained an introductory overview followed by a series of essays. Each one...
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| | 3 Welsh history: audio resources
- 3.1 Introduction Resource
- The following audio resource files are extracts from a series of seventeen BBC Radio Wales programmes first broadcast in 1999. They include discussion by eminent Welsh historians, many of whom have contributed...
- The Normans in Wales Resource
- Huw Pryce discusses the Welsh experience of the Norman Conquest. The contemporary poem Rhigyfarch's Lament describes the conquest of Dyfed.
- Crown, conquest and communities Resource
- Huw Pryce discusses the militarism of the Welsh in the twelfth century.
- Tudor Wales Resource
- A.D. Carr and Matthew Griffiths describe the aftermath of Owain Glyndwr's rebellion.
- People and belief Resource
- A discussion of the translation of the New Testament into Welsh, and of the state of Welsh spiritual life at the time of the Reformation.
- Love and learning Resource
- Philip Jenkins discusses changes in English attitudes to the landscape of Wales in the 1760s with the development of the Romantic movement.
- Crisis Resource
- Neil Evans discusses Nonconformist religion in nineteenth-century Wales.
- From blue books to white gloves Resource
- Neil Evans describes the function of pubs in Wales in the nineteenth century.
- Work and play Resource
- Elin Jones discusses the impact of industrialisation and shift work on mealtimes in nineteenth-century Wales.
- Secret sins Resource
- Bill Jones discusses conditions in nineteenth-century rural Wales, and the attractions of urban areas.
- Triumph and tragedy Resource
- Bill Jones examines the impact of colliery disasters on communities in Wales.
- To hell and back Resource
- Keith Strange describes the impact of the Great War on the political, economic and cultural life of Wales.
- The Great Depression Resource
- Ioan Matthews, Deirdre Beddoe and Sian Rhiannon Williams discuss the experience of women in Wales during the depression of the 1930s.
- A new Jerusalem Resource
- Christine Stephens discusses the effect of increasing affluence and the influence of the USA. Rock’n’roll arrives in Wales.
- On a border in history Resource
- Chris Williams discusses the impact of Saunders Lewis's 1962 radio broadcast Tynged yr Iaith (The Fate of the Language).
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| | 4 Welsh history: video resources
- 4.1 Introduction Resource
- In this section two video resources, describing different aspects of Welsh history, are presented. These complement the materials presented in the previous text and audio sections. They also offer you...
- 4.2 Coast video extracts Resource
- Extract 1
- 4.3 The celebrated Cyfarthfa band Resource
- In the middle of the nineteenth century, Merthyr Tydfil was the world's greatest supplier of iron and the largest town in Wales. It was dominated by Cyfarthfa Castle, the huge and ostentatious home of...
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| | 5 Welsh history: case study of David Lloyd George
- 5.1 Overview Resource
- This section contains a short ‘taster’ from the Open University's fifteen-week course A182 Small country, big history: themes in the history of Wales. The sample material presented in this section looks...
- 5.2 Introduction Resource
- This extract of material is taken from the opening section of the final case study in A182 Small country, big history: themes in the history of Wales. In it Professor Chris Williams discusses the extent...
- 5.3 ‘The Greatest Welshman Yet Born’? David Lloyd George and Wales Resource
- ‘Lloyd George Knew My Father, Father Knew Lloyd George’
- 5.4 Lloyd George, Wales and the world Resource
- What I hope the activity in Section 5.3 reveals is that a full appreciation of David Lloyd George's political career would take us well beyond the confines of Wales and the Welsh nation. As Prime Minister...
- 5.5 The individual in history Resource
- Judging any politician as either ‘hero’ or ‘villain’ is inevitably a subjective exercise, conditioned by our own ideological preferences. It is also a highly artificial device, as few individuals are so...
- 5.6 References and further reading Resource
- Carlyle, T. ([1841] 1907) On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, London, Chapman and Hall.
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| | 6 Welsh history: map and diagram resources
- 6.1 Introduction Resource
- The following map and diagram resources are taken from the seven Welsh History and its Sources books mentioned in Section 1.1. They were specially drawn for the Welsh History and its Sources volumes. Some...
- 6.2 Edward I and Wales Resource
- Resource 1: Principal physical features of Wales
- 6.3 Tudor Wales Resource
- Resource 1: Main physical features of Wales
- 6.4 The remaking of Wales in the eighteenth century Resource
- Resource 1: Place-name map of Wales
- 6.5 People and protest Resource
- Resource 1: Country populations in Wales as shown by census returns
- 6.6 Wales 1880–1914 Resource
- Resource 1: Place-name map of Wales
- 6.7 Wales between the Wars Resource
- Resource 1: Map of Welsh counties
- 6.8 Post-War Wales Resource
- Resource 1: The main administrative units of Wales, showing the ‘old’ (pre-1974) and ‘new’ (1974–1996) county boundaries. (Source: D. Huw Owen (ed.), Settlement and Society in Wales, Cardiff, 1989.)
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| | 7 Welsh history: image resources
- 7.1 Introduction Resource
- The following image resources are taken from the seven Welsh History and its sources books mentioned in Section 1.1. Some appear in the essays presented in Section 2. They cover many aspects of Welsh history,...
- 7.2 Edward I and Wales Resource
- Image 1: Idealized sculpture of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd in Cardiff City Hall. (Source: Cardiff City Council.)
- 7.3 Tudor Wales Resource
- Image 1: Katheryn of Berain – the Llewesog Portrait. (Source: National Museum of Wales.)
- 7.4 The remaking of Wales in the eighteenth century Resource
- Image 1: Sir Watkin Williams Wynn: a portrait by Thomas Hudson, 1740. (Source: National Museum of Wales.)
- 7.5 People and protest Resource
- Image 1: Newtown, Montgomeryshire, c. 1900. (Source: National Library of Wales.)
- 7.6 Wales 1880–1914 Resource
- Image 1: Binding corn into sheaves, Brechfa, Dyfed, c. 1898. (Source: Welsh Folk Museum.)
- 7.7 Wales between the Wars Resource
- Image 1: Cardiff Docks, 1923. (Source: County of South Glamorgan Libraries.)
- 7.8 Post-War Wales Resource
- Image 1: Leaflet advertising events to celebrate the nationalization of the coal industry in 1947. (Source: Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum)
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| | 8 Welsh history: weblinks
- 8.1 Introduction Resource
- The following links represent a series of online resources for the study of Welsh history. Each of the sites has been examined by the unit team and selected as helpful to further your study of Welsh history....
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| | 9 Welsh history: timeline
- 9.1 Welsh history timeline Resource
- The Welsh history timeline provides a basic overview of the more important events in the history of Wales. It is a collation of events that span more than a thousand years. Additionally a selection of...
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| | 10 Welsh history: glossary
- 10.1 The glossary of Welsh history Resource
- The Welsh history glossary is a searchable database of words and phrases that figure prominently in writings about the history of Wales. This resource will open in a separate window. Initially entries...
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| | 11 Bibliography of Welsh history
- 11 Bibliography of Welsh history Resource
- This bibliography, linked below, incorporates the bibliographies of the Welsh History and its Sources books edited by Trevor Herbert and Gareth Elwyn Jones, and published by the University of Wales Press...
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- 12 Further options Resource
- Now you have completed this unit, you might like to:
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