The History of Wales

John Graham Jones

Description

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.

Preface
1. Pre-Norman Wales
2. From Norman Conquest to Edwardian Conquest
3. From Conquest to Union
4. Post-Union Wales
5. Stuart Wales
6. Methodism and Radicalism
7. The Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions
8. Politics, Nonconformity and Education
9. Wales, 1880-1939
10. Modern Welsh Society
11. Wales in the New Millennium

Sujets

• Histoire
• Great Britain
• History
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 novembre 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783161690
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

Extrait

THE HïSTORY OF WALES

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THE HïSTORY OF WALES

J. GRAHAM JONES

CARDIFF UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2014

© J. Graham Jones, 2014

First published in 1990 Reprinted in 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997

Second edition published in 1998 Reprinted in 2000, 2005

Third edition published in 2014

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to The University of Wales Press, 10 Columbus Walk, Brigantine Place, Cardiff CF10 4UP.

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978-1-78316-168-3 eISBN 978-1-78316-169-0

The right of J. Graham Jones to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77, 78 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Printed by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham, Wiltshire

Acknowledgements

Contents

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the Third Edition

 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11

Pre-Norman Wales

From Norman Conquest to Edwardian Conquest

From Conquest to Union

Post-Union Wales

Stuart Wales

Methodism and Radicalism

The Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions

Politics, Nonconformity and Education

Wales, 1880–1939

Modern Welsh Society

Wales in the New Millennium

Important Dates Further Reading Glossary of Terms Index

vii ix xi xiii

1 19 37 55 73 89 109 127 145 161 185

205 211 215 219

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Acknowedgements

The author and publishers wish to thank the copyright holders who have kindly permitted the reproduction of photographs as follows:—

Pentre Ifan (p. 2), Caernarfon Castle (p. 43), The Parliament House, Machynlleth (p. 52), Gwydir (p. 75), Capel Soar-y-Mynydd (p. 94), University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (p. 137), Senedd Debating Chamber (p. 188) and Millennium Stadium (p. 200) by permission of the Photolibrary Wales. Glamorgan Colliery (p. 117) and Ceremony of the Gorsedd of Bards (p. 142) by permission of Alamy. Map of Wales in 1267 (p. 31), Wales in 1284 (p. 38) and the Shires of Wales after the Acts of Union (p. 57), from T. Herbert and G. E. Jones (eds),Edward I and Tudor Wales, by permission of the Open University in Wales. The title-page of the 1588 Bible (p. 67) by permission of Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/The National Library of Wales. Map of the counties and districts of Wales in 1974 (p. 171), drawn by Welsh Office Cartographic Services, based on an Ordnance Survey map, by kind permission of Ordnance Survey © Crown Copyright. NC/04/37793.

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Preace to the Fîrst Edîtîon

This little book is simply an attempt to outline some of the main themes in the history of Wales. The attempt has not been made, as far as I am aware, since Sir John Edward Lloyd, doyen of Welsh historians, published hisA History of Walesin the Benn’s Sixpenny Library Series in 1930. Since then, and especially during the last twenty-five years, the study of Welsh history has enjoyed a quite remarkable renaissance, the fruits of which are at once apparent in the magisterial volumes of the Oxford History of Wales. Within the constraints of space upon me, I have been unable to discuss many aspects of our rich and colourful past and have dealt only briefly with others to which I would gladly have devoted more attention. In particular, I am painfully aware that the few references to Welsh literature which the volume contains are woefully sketchy and inadequate. In this book the county names in use between 1974 and 1996 have been used wherever more appropriate (see map on p. 171) but for the period 1536–1974 references are to the historical county names (see map on p. 57). A number of my colleagues in the Department of Manuscripts and Records of the National Library of Wales have generously assisted me in various ways in the preparation of the book, and I should like to mention in particular Mrs Eirionedd Baskerville, Mr Daniel Huws and Mr Graham Thomas. My friend Dr Prys T. J. Morgan, Reader in History at the University College of Swansea, at a particularly busy time read through the whole of my typescript with characteristic speed and penetration and did much to eliminate factual errors and to improve my cumbersome prose. The errors of

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