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Wales --- Economic conditions --- Cambria --- Cymric --- Gwalia --- Cymru --- England and Wales --- Economic history --- History, Economic --- Economics
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The sources for the history of medieval Wales are scanty, sporadic and physically scattered. Neither in archival, narrative nor archaeological remains is Wales comparable to England, and what survives is less accessible, for there has been a notable reluctance among Welsh scholars to produce guides and surveys for this difficult corpus of material. The purpose of Medieval Wales is to examine the history and survival of records produced by administrations inside what is now Wales, princely, seigneurial, ecclesiastical, municipal; to indicate the relevance of English official records to students of Welsh history; to give an introduction to the main narrative sources; to put the work of the Welsh antiquaries into a wider context; to re-examine the whole question of independent Welsh coinage; and to bring together discussion of Welsh archaeological remains, place-name studies and early cartography.
Wales --- Cambria --- Cymric --- Gwalia --- Cymru --- England and Wales --- History --- Arts and Humanities
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Why do so few institutions in the legal sector have professional records managers or archivists on their staff? This book is the culmination of a three year project by experienced archivist and records managers on private sector legal records at risk in England at Wales. It summarises the work of the Legal Records at Risk (LRAR) project and its predecessors, diagnoses the problems of preservation of archives in the legal sector in England and Wales and outlines a national strategy for such records.
Law --- England. --- Wales. --- Cambria --- Cymric --- Cymru --- Gwalia --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra
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The humorously self-styled 'late' Thomas Pennant (1726-98) published this short autobiographical survey in 1793. A prominent Welsh naturalist and antiquary, he was known more for his energy and meticulous methodology than for original scientific genius. Yet he helped popularise natural history with beautifully illustrated works such as his History of Quadrupeds, the third edition of which is also reissued in this series. Moreover, he is credited with preserving thorough records of antiquities that were later damaged or destroyed. Samuel Johnson, who toured Scotland after Pennant, praised him as 'the best traveller I ever read'. More than a mere travelogue, Pennant's Literary Life is full of delightful vignettes - his meeting with the 'wicked wit' Voltaire, his affection for his faithful servant and illustrator Moses Griffith, and his poetic critique of certain hypocritical clergy. The appendices contain several of Pennant's shorter pieces on diverse topics, from anthropology to politics.
Zoologists --- Patagonians --- Wales --- Politics and government --- Indians of South America --- Animal scientists --- Biologists --- Cambria --- Cymric --- Gwalia --- Cymru --- England and Wales
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The book explores the complex and shifting geographies of rural Wales in the twenty first century. Written by experts in their fields and drawing on a broad range of academic work, the book focuses on social, cultural, economic, welfare and environmental themes. Particular attention is given to the changing relations between people, place and environment in rural Wales. The book uses these accounts of the social, economic and environmental geographies of rural Wales to provide a broader critique of rural geography and rural studies in the UK and other developed countries.
Wales --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- Environmental conditions. --- Wales -- Rural conditions. --- Wales. --- Cambria --- Cymric --- Gwalia --- Cymru --- England and Wales --- Rural conditions. --- E-books
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Welsh, like the other Celtic languages, is best known amongst linguists for its verb-initial word order and its use of initial consonant mutations. However it has many more characteristics which are of interest to syntacticians. This book, first published in 2007, provides a concise and accessible overview of the major syntactic phenomena of Welsh. A broad variety of topics are covered, including finite and infinitival clauses, noun phrases, agreement and tense, word order, clause structure, dialect variation, and the language's historical Celtic background. Drawing on work carried out in both Principles and Parameters theory and Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, it takes contemporary colloquial Welsh as its starting point and draws contrasts with a range of literary and dialectal forms of the language, as well as earlier forms (Middle Welsh) were appropriate. An engaging guide to all that is interesting about Welsh syntax, this book will be welcomed by syntactic theorists, typologists, historical linguists and Celticists alike.
Welsh language --- Cambrian language --- Cambric language --- Cymraeg language --- Cymric language --- Brythonic languages --- Syntax. --- Syntax --- Celtic languages --- Celtic philology --- Indo-European languages --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics
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Great Britain --- Wales --- Population --- -History. --- History. --- Cambria --- Cymric --- Gwalia --- Cymru --- England and Wales --- Revolution industrielle --- Demographie --- Grande-bretagne --- Angleterre --- Histoire --- 19e-20e siecles --- Conditions economiques --- 18e-19e siecles --- Conditions sociales
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What role did the parish play in people's lives in England and Wales between 1700 and the mid-twentieth century? By comparison with globalisation and its dislocating effects, the book stresses how important parochial belonging once was. Professor Snell discusses themes such as settlement law and practice, marriage patterns, cultures of local xenophobia, the continuance of out-door relief in people's own parishes under the new poor law, the many new parishes of the period and their effects upon people's local attachments. The book highlights the continuing vitality of the parish as a unit in people's lives, and the administration associated with it. It employs a variety of historical methods, and makes important contributions to the history of welfare, community identity and belonging. It is highly relevant to the modern themes of globalisation, de-localisation, and the decline of community, helping to set such changes and their consequences into local historical perspective.
Parishes --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- History --- England --- Wales --- Social conditions --- Church polity --- Cambria --- Cymric --- Gwalia --- Cymru --- England and Wales --- History. --- Arts and Humanities
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England --- Wales --- Historical geography. --- Pays de Galles --- Historische geografie --- Groot-Brittanië. --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- Cambria --- Cymric --- Gwalia --- Cymru --- England and Wales --- Geografie --- Landschapskunde --- Angleterre --- Géographie historique --- GEOGRAPHIE HISTORIQUE --- ANGLETERRE --- PAYS DE GALLES
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