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The South Wales Miners 1964-1985
In May 1981, at the South Wales Area NUM annual conference, Area president Emlyn Williams addressed the delegates and told them that the south Wales miners 'are associated in people's minds with resistance and struggles ... There is no doubt in my mind that miners have an historical mission to lead …
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The Role of Dogs in Medieval Wales
This thesis explores the role of dogs in medieval Wales. References to dogs can be found in sources such as the law codes and the Mabinogion and other forms of literature, including hagiography and poetry, providing a wealth of material for understanding what kinds of dogs there were, what they …
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Marketised forensic DNA-profiling in England & Wales
… during the past decade. In England and Wales, forensic expertise is now delivered by way of a commercial market, whilst similar provision in Scotland, and Northern Ireland, remains within the public sector. As a result of marketisation, police forces (and other forensic ‘customers’) have …
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Sacred Greenspace in the South Wales’ Valleys
… in the post-industrial town of Ferndale, South Wales. The area has experienced social and economic changes during the twentieth century, largely due to its transition into a post-industrial landscape, and today is an area of social, physical and cultural uniqueness. The study utilises the sacred …
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Death and Commemoration in Late Medieval Wales
… the attitudes to and commemoration of death in Wales in the period between the end of the thirteenth century and the middle of the sixteenth century by analysis of the poetical work produced during this period. In so doing, this is placed in the wider context of death and commemoration in …
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Representing Wales: experience on screen 1985-2010
… the experience of working in broadcasting in Wales over a period spanning five decades. It focuses on one of my abiding concerns throughout: the under-represented experience of the community (the post-industrial working class of the South Wales coalfield) in which I grew up – and, more …
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Early limestone railways of south-east Wales
… of its day.From the 1790s into the 1840s South Wales and, in particular, the Heads of the Valleys was much the largest producer of iron in Britain. To feed the works with raw materials there was a major system of railroads and tramroads which, except perhaps for the North-eastern coalfield, was …
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Perceptions of Peoples in Early Medieval Wales
… In Chapter 1 I investigate the names used for Wales and the Welsh, and suggest that, whilst these texts continued to view the Welsh as Britons, the rightful inhabitants of all Britain, there is nevertheless an indication of the construction of a specifically Welsh identity, focused on the …
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A Century of Adventism in Wales 1885-1985 A History of Seventh-day Adventism in Wales and the Border Counties
… hundred years they have had a small presence in Wales and the border counties of Hereford and Shropshire. In the nineteen-eighties Seventh-day Adventists are to be found in 184 countries around the world, converts number over 1,000 a day, yet in Wales little is known about their teachings and …
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Economic Analyses of Crime in England and Wales
… the determinants of crime in England and Wales. We firstly apply time series analyses to look for cointegrating relationships between property crimes and unemployment as well as law enforcement instruments. We extend our study by employing panel data and corresponding techniques to control …
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Petitioning Mothers in England and Wales, 1660-1720
… and quarter sessions courts in England and Wales between 1660 and 1720. These petitions reveal the every-day and in extremis situations that mothers of the early modern period faced, including soliciting poor relief, requesting school placements and employment, establishing maintenance for …
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‘Unsettled Minds’ in England and Wales, 1800-1834.
… is that ordinary people in England and Wales experienced a constant state of flux in their mental well-being and moved across an experiential spectrum. This ranged from deeply embedded contentment with the self and their human situation, to confinement, usually in asylums, in mental …
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Harmonious Living: Sustainability, Ecology, and Eco-Islam in Wales
… is an in-depth examination of Eco-Islam in Wales. Eco-Islam refers to the conceptual intersection of Islamic principles with environmental and ecological concerns. It is not necessarily a formalised movement with a centralised structure but rather a broader concept that explores the …
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The Mormon mission to Wales 1840-49 : a reassessment
… assertions made about the Mormon mission to Wales between 1840 and 1849. It has considered the response to the mission by Nonconformist ministers, and in particular, that of the Baptist minister Revd W. R. Davies, Dowlais, and asked whether the primary explanation for Nonconformist opposition …
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How is Welsh Government supporting Anchor Companies in Wales?
GVA per head in Wales during 2014 was 71.4 per cent of the UK average, the lowest amongst the devolved countries and English regions (source: ONS).<br/><br/>This ranking for Wales has not changed since 1998 when it fell below Northern Ireland. In 1989 GVA was 85.4 per cent of the UK average which …
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