Diary of a Welsh Swagman, 1869-1894

Diary of a Welsh Swagman, 1869-1894 PDF Author: Joseph Jenkins
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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First published in 1975, and now reprinted from the 1992 edition, this diary records the experiences of a Welshman who arrived in Australia in 1869 at the age of 51 and spent the next 25 years working on farms in the Ballarat and Castlemaine area and as a street worker for the Maldon council. The diary has been abridged and notated by the author's grandson.

Diary of a Welsh Swagman, 1869-1894

Diary of a Welsh Swagman, 1869-1894 PDF Author: Joseph Jenkins
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Book Description
First published in 1975, and now reprinted from the 1992 edition, this diary records the experiences of a Welshman who arrived in Australia in 1869 at the age of 51 and spent the next 25 years working on farms in the Ballarat and Castlemaine area and as a street worker for the Maldon council. The diary has been abridged and notated by the author's grandson.

Diary of a Welsh Swagman

Diary of a Welsh Swagman PDF Author: Willam Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Pity the Swagman

Pity the Swagman PDF Author: Bethan Phillips
Publisher: Cymdeithas Lyfrau Ceredigion
ISBN: 9781902416472
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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The Welsh in an Australian Gold Town

The Welsh in an Australian Gold Town PDF Author: Robert Llewellyn Tyler
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783161736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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This book’s focus is the Welsh immigrant community in the Ballarat/Sebastopol gold mining district of Victoria, Australia during the second half of the nineteenth century. The book provides an analysis of a Welsh community as it existed in a particular area and the ways in which it changed during a specific period of time and considers all aspects of the Welsh immigrant experience.

Red Hearts and Roses?

Red Hearts and Roses? PDF Author: Rhiannon Ifans
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786833727
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Who was Saint Valentine, the saint who gave his name to the festival of lovers in Wales? Where do red hearts and roses fit in? Or do they? This volume addresses these questions, but focuses more specifically on the previously unpublished Welsh poetry written over the centuries on the feast day of Saint Valentine in mid-February, the one saint’s day in the Christian calendar of saints that does not depend on the Church for a celebration of the feast day – far from resembling anything else on offer in any other part of Britain, these Welsh songs are lyrical, expressive, and often in cynghanedd (the concept of sound-arrangement within a line). This volume analyses the first extant Welsh Saint Valentine’s Day poems, and advances a new understanding of societal propriety in settings where citizens paid great attention to tradition. In so doing, it offers new insights into the tradition of observing Saint Valentine’s Day in Wales and, indeed, argues that although it is the fifth-century Dwynwen who is today considered to be the patron saint of Welsh lovers, Saint Valentine also handed out aid and sympathy to lovers in Wales over many centuries. To read Rhiannon Ifans article on her volume, visit Parallel.Cymru website https://parallel.cymru/rhiannon-ifans-red-hearts-and-roses/

Soil Acidity and Plant Growth

Soil Acidity and Plant Growth PDF Author: A Robson
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0323156223
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 319

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Soil Acidity and Plant Growth emerged from concerns over increasing acidification of soils under improved pastures over wide areas of southern Australia. While the book has its origin in the problems of acidification of Australian soils under pastures, the authors examine soil acidity within a much broader framework, making their views relevant to all agricultural and natural ecosystems on acid soils. The book's first two chapters discuss the chemistry of soil acidity and the ecological processes leading to it. This is followed by separate chapters on biological responses to soil acidity, covering mineralization of soil nitrogen, incidence of plant diseases, plant mycorrhizal associations, symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legumes, and genetic variability in plant response to toxicities. The remaining chapters focus on the correction of soil acidity problems by liming. These include studies on the rates of application and effectiveness of liming materials; and the development and use of computer modelling procedures to help researchers identify the effects and interactions of soil pH on component processes and to provide assistance to farmers in the management of long-term subterranean clover pastures.

Nearly Out of Heart and Hope

Nearly Out of Heart and Hope PDF Author: Miles Fairburn
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 9781869401184
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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"Based on the 800,000-word diary of James Cox, an itinerant labourer living in New Zealand between 1880 and 1925 ... a rare record of the daily life of a permanent member of the colonial working class"--Back cover.

Everyone’s Theater

Everyone’s Theater PDF Author: Michael Meeuwis
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472125796
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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Nearly all residents of England and its colonies between 1860 and 1914 were active theatergoers, and many participated in the amateur theatricals that defined late Victorian life. The Victorian theater was not an abstract figuration of the world as a stage, but a media system enmeshed in mass lived experience that fulfilled in actuality the concept of a theatergoing nation. Everyone’s Theater turns to local history, the words of everyday Victorians found in their diaries and production records, to recover this lost chapter of theater history in which amateur drama domesticates the stage. Professional actors and playwrights struggled to make their productions compatible with ideas and techniques that could be safely reproduced in the home—and in amateur performances from Canada to India. This became the first true English national theater: a society whose myriad classes found common ground in theatrical display. Everyone’s Theater provides new ways to extend Victorian literature into the dimension of voice, sound, and embodiment, and to appreciate the pleasures of Victorian theatricality.

Prayer, providence and empire

Prayer, providence and empire PDF Author: Joseph Hardwick
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526135418
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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European settlers in Canada, Australia and South Africa said they were building ‘better Britains’ overseas. But their new societies were frequently threatened by devastating wars, rebellions, epidemics and natural disasters. It is striking that settlers turned to old traditions of collective prayer and worship to make sense of these calamities. At times of trauma, colonial governments set aside whole days for prayer so that entire populations could join together to implore God’s intervention, assistance or guidance. And at moments of celebration, such as the coming of peace, everyone in the empire might participate in synchronized acts of thanksgiving. Prayer, providence and empire asks why occasions with origins in the sixteenth century became numerous in the democratic, pluralistic and secularised conditions of the ‘British world’.

Droughts, Cyclones & Floods

Droughts, Cyclones & Floods PDF Author: Don Garden
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
ISBN: 1921509384
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Droughts, Floods and Cyclones is the most comprehensive study of this phenomenon, examining the impact of a series of El Niño events in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and French Polynesia in the second half of the nineteenth century.