Author: Dylan Rees
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
An elegantly written and comprehensive survey of the history of Carmarthenshire from prehistoric times to the present day. The formative changes and developments in all aspects of life and activity are examined and placed within a broader historical context.
Carmarthenshire
Author: Dylan Rees
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
An elegantly written and comprehensive survey of the history of Carmarthenshire from prehistoric times to the present day. The formative changes and developments in all aspects of life and activity are examined and placed within a broader historical context.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
An elegantly written and comprehensive survey of the history of Carmarthenshire from prehistoric times to the present day. The formative changes and developments in all aspects of life and activity are examined and placed within a broader historical context.
Ymddiddan Myrddin a Thaliesin, (o Lyfr Du Caerfyrddin)
Author: Alfred Owen Hughes Jarman
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 9780708302583
Category : Merlin (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 9780708302583
Category : Merlin (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
A History of Carmarthenshire
Author: Sir John Edward Lloyd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carmarthenshire (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carmarthenshire (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion
Author: Thomas Lloyd
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300101799
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
This sixth volume of the Buildings of Wales series covers two counties, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (formerly Cardiganshire) in the south-west of Wales. Like the same authors' Pembrokeshire, the volume covers an architecture still little known, hut encompassing a sweep from prehistoric chambered tombs to the high technology of the world's largest single-span glasshouse. The Buildings of Wales, founded by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-83), will, when complete, document and describe the architecture of the Principality in seven regional volumes, complementing the sister series on England, Ireland and Scotland. In each one a gazetteer details all buildings of significance from megalithic tombs and Iron Age hill-forts, via grand seventeenth-century houses to Victorian domestic extravaganzas, great industrial centres and monumental public buildings. The countryside is explored to reveal churches, chapels, farmhouses, and traces of early industry. The gazetteer is complemented by an introduction which explains the broader context and builds a complete picture of the country's architectural identity. Each work is illustrated by numerous maps, plans and photographs, completed by glossaries and indexes, and gives a comprehensive and illuminating survey of the buildings of Wales.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300101799
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
This sixth volume of the Buildings of Wales series covers two counties, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (formerly Cardiganshire) in the south-west of Wales. Like the same authors' Pembrokeshire, the volume covers an architecture still little known, hut encompassing a sweep from prehistoric chambered tombs to the high technology of the world's largest single-span glasshouse. The Buildings of Wales, founded by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-83), will, when complete, document and describe the architecture of the Principality in seven regional volumes, complementing the sister series on England, Ireland and Scotland. In each one a gazetteer details all buildings of significance from megalithic tombs and Iron Age hill-forts, via grand seventeenth-century houses to Victorian domestic extravaganzas, great industrial centres and monumental public buildings. The countryside is explored to reveal churches, chapels, farmhouses, and traces of early industry. The gazetteer is complemented by an introduction which explains the broader context and builds a complete picture of the country's architectural identity. Each work is illustrated by numerous maps, plans and photographs, completed by glossaries and indexes, and gives a comprehensive and illuminating survey of the buildings of Wales.
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
Author: Samuel Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Carmarthen Pals
Author: Steven John
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Carmarthenshire Battalion was one of the early units raised in 1914 as a result of Lord Kitchener's expansion of the regular army by 500,000 men for the duration of the Great War. Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, had a vision of a Welsh Army Group and massive efforts were made to recruit and form Welsh fighting units. The first 200 recruits for the Carmarthen Pals came from Bolton, strangely enough, but later they were mainly drawn from the County and wider Wales. Initial training was at Rhyl. In April 1915 the Battalion became part of 114 Brigade, 38 (Welsh) Division and after completing training and equipping it crossed to France in December 1915. From early 1916 until the Armistice the Carmathen Pals fought with distinction. Initially at Givency, it moved to the Somme in May 1916 and attacked Mametz Wood in the early days of that most terrible July offensive. Thereafter the Battalion moved to the Ypres Salient and in July 1917 attacked Pilckem Ridge. Moves south to Armentieres district, then the Albert Sector followed. In the closing months of the War alone the Pals suffered 40 officer and 900 other rank killed and wounded as they pushed the Germans back capturing Ancre and crossing the Canal du Nord and Selle rivers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Carmarthenshire Battalion was one of the early units raised in 1914 as a result of Lord Kitchener's expansion of the regular army by 500,000 men for the duration of the Great War. Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, had a vision of a Welsh Army Group and massive efforts were made to recruit and form Welsh fighting units. The first 200 recruits for the Carmarthen Pals came from Bolton, strangely enough, but later they were mainly drawn from the County and wider Wales. Initial training was at Rhyl. In April 1915 the Battalion became part of 114 Brigade, 38 (Welsh) Division and after completing training and equipping it crossed to France in December 1915. From early 1916 until the Armistice the Carmathen Pals fought with distinction. Initially at Givency, it moved to the Somme in May 1916 and attacked Mametz Wood in the early days of that most terrible July offensive. Thereafter the Battalion moved to the Ypres Salient and in July 1917 attacked Pilckem Ridge. Moves south to Armentieres district, then the Albert Sector followed. In the closing months of the War alone the Pals suffered 40 officer and 900 other rank killed and wounded as they pushed the Germans back capturing Ancre and crossing the Canal du Nord and Selle rivers.
Secret Sins
Author: David Russell Davies
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783165456
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition of his very successful book, ‘Secret Sins’. Behind the facade of idyllic rural life, there was a twilight world of mental illness, suicide, crime, vicious assaults, infanticide, cruelty and other assorted acts of depravity. This almost anecdotal historical study is often funny, sometimes disturbing, always revealing.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783165456
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition of his very successful book, ‘Secret Sins’. Behind the facade of idyllic rural life, there was a twilight world of mental illness, suicide, crime, vicious assaults, infanticide, cruelty and other assorted acts of depravity. This almost anecdotal historical study is often funny, sometimes disturbing, always revealing.
Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales
Author: Thomas Nicholas
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green, Reader
ISBN:
Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green, Reader
ISBN:
Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
A Concise History of Wales
Author: Geraint H. Jenkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521823676
Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521823676
Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
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.
Folk-lore of West and Mid-Wales
Author: Jonathan Ceredig Davies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description