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Introduction

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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 of the history of Wales, and a pool of resources that can help you understand Welsh history and the way it is studied.

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Learning outcomes

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By the end of this unit you should be able to:

understand some of the basic themes and issues that have been the focus for historians of Wales;
be aware of a variety of approaches employed by historians in interpreting and constructing history generally and Welsh history specifically;
understand issues that contribute to the cultural identity of Wales.

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1.1.1 Background

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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 those who are generally interested in the subject and may have a good knowledge of Welsh history already, and at those who are relatively new to the subject. So, while some of the material (such as the taster material from the OU course Small country, big history: themes in the history of Wales) provides a short programme of study devoted to a very specific topic, much of the material included in the unit as a whole can be used and studied in a variety of ways.

The unit title, Welsh history and its sources, was the generic title for a series of books that was prepared at The Open University in Wales between 1988 and 1995, and edited by Trevor Herbert and Gareth Elwyn Jones. The seven volumes in the series were made possible by a Welsh Office grant and brought together the work of more than forty historians of Wales.

The series was important because it did not just provide a rich array of materials about Welsh history; it also explained the way that historians of Wales work by showing the relationship between their writings about Welsh history and the evidence or sources upon which those writings are based. The variety of material contained in this unit not only continues the legacy of the original Welsh history and its sources project, it also extends it and makes it suitable for an online environment.

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1.1.2 Sources and resources

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This unit contains a wide range of materials presented in different media formats that are freely available for you to use. It contains a substantial number of essays and source materials from the original Welsh history and its sources series of books, as well as maps, pictures and sound clips. If you wish to use the videos offline, we recommend that you download the higher resolution version.

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1.1.3 Weblinks

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The weblinks section of this unit guides you to some of the best online resources for the study of Welsh history. We have looked at all the sites we give links to, and we are sure that they will be helpful to you. Some, such as the enormously impressive online resources of the National Library of Wales, provide a vast array of online sources.

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1.1.4 History tools

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This unit contains very basic devices that will enable you to make a start in your exploration of Welsh history.

There are three primary tools for you to explore:

The Welsh history timeline provides a basic overview of the more important events in the history of Wales.
The glossary of Welsh history is a searchable database of words and phrases that figure prominently in writings about the history of Wales.
A bibliography of Welsh history.

The Welsh history timeline is presented to you as a series of Compendium maps. Compendium is a knowledge map software tool for visual thinking, used within the OpenLearn website. For more details on how to use Compendium and to see some examples of how it can be used, read the OpenLearn QuickStart Guide.

The glossary of Welsh history is also accessible by selecting the link provided in the text. It will be presented to you as a navigable set of glossary pages in alphabetical order.

The bibliography of Welsh history allows you both to pursue your own interests by discovering further reading and to gain an overview of the scope of Welsh historical scholarship.

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1.1.5 Links to other education resources

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2.1 Introduction

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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 of these essays was linked and cross-referenced to documentary source material that the author had investigated when writing her/his essay.

We have included here the introductory essays from each of the seven volumes along with one essay from each volume and the source materials that are related to it. Each essay can be accessed by selecting the view document option. The essay will then be presented as a PDF document in a separate window.

Throughout the essays, you will see words in italics. Some of the authors use italics for the Welsh language, but italics also indicate entries in the glossary in Section 9. If you look up these words in the glossary, you will find some more information about them.

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2.1.1 Edward I and Wales

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This is the introductory essay to the volume Edward I and Wales. It was written by Professor R.R. Davies, at that time Professor of History at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Click 'view document' to open Edward I and Wales (8 pages, 0.06 MB)

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Introduction

Learning outcomes

1.1.1 Background

1.1.2 Sources and resources

1.1.3 Weblinks

1.1.4 History tools

1.1.5 Links to other education resources

2.1 Introduction

2.1.1 Edward I and Wales

2.1.2 The Edwardian Conquest and its Military Consolidation

2.1.3 Tudor Wales

2.1.4 The Lower Orders

2.1.5 The Remaking of Wales in the Eighteenth Century

2.1.6 Beginnings of Radicalism

2.1.7 People and Protest: Wales 1815–1880

2.1.8 Parliament and People in Mid-Nineteenth Century Wales

2.1.9 Wales 1880–1914

2.1.10 From Riots to Revolt: Tonypandy and The Miners' Next Step

2.1.11 Wales between the Wars

2.1.12 Social Reactions to Economic Change

2.1.13 Post-War Wales

2.1.14 Wales and the Wider World

3.1 Introduction

3.1.1 Listening to the audio

3.2.1 The Welsh experience of the Norman conquest

3.3.1 The ‘warlike Welsh’

3.3.2 Llywelyn ap Gruffydd

3.3.3 The conquest of Wales

3.4.1 The aftermath of the Glyndwr rebellion

3.4.2 The Tudors

3.5.1 The Welsh New Testament

3.5.2 Welsh religious life before the Reformation

3.5.3 The Reformation in Wales

3.6.1 Eighteenth-century tourism of Wales

3.7.1 Welsh nonconformity

3.8.1 Public houses

3.8.2 Social unrest

3.8.3 Iolo Morganwg

3.9.1 Mealtimes

3.9.2 The chapel

3.9.3 The Sunday Closing Act

3.9.4 Welsh rugby

3.10.1 Rural Wales

3.11.1 Colliery disasters

3.12.1 The impact of World War I

3.12.2 Welsh women in World War I

3.12.3 Coal cutting

3.12.4 The coalfield community

3.13.1 Women's lives in the Great Depression

3.14.1 Wales in the 1950s and 1960s

3.15.1 The Welsh language movement

3.15.2 A golden age of Welsh rugby

3.15.3 Welsh identity

4.1 Introduction

Watching the video

4.2 Coast video extracts

4.3 The celebrated Cyfarthfa band

5.1 Overview

5.2 Introduction

5.3 ‘The Greatest Welshman Yet Born’? David Lloyd George and Wales

Activity

Discussion

5.4 Lloyd George, Wales and the world

5.5 The individual in history

5.6 References and further reading

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Edward I and Wales

6.3 Tudor Wales

6.4 The remaking of Wales in the eighteenth century

6.5 People and protest

6.6 Wales 1880–1914

6.7 Wales between the Wars

6.8 Post-War Wales

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Edward I and Wales

7.3 Tudor Wales

7.4 The remaking of Wales in the eighteenth century

7.5 People and protest

7.6 Wales 1880–1914