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Showing 1 to 20 of 355 for “"Welsh"”.
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The Welsh Revival (1904-1905): Recovering the Role of Welsh Women
The Welsh Revival of 1904-05 marked a period of social and religious change throughout Wales. For eighteen months, chapels were filled and public houses emptied as the country was engulfed in an emotional, religious frenzy, which many believed to be the work of God. Previous research has focused on …
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Rewriting a Mythic Nation : Welsh Women Writers Recovering Welsh Myth and Folklore
This thesis examines the function of Welsh mythology, fairy tale and folklore in a selection of works by twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglophone Welsh women writers who choose to engage with such source material. Its aim is to provide a critical response to those recoveries through feminist …
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The impact of the introduction of Welsh language policies by Welsh Health Authorities
… reasons underlying policies on the use of the Welsh language which have been produced by Health Authorities within Wales.<br/><br/>This includes an examination of a range of macro and micro factors which may have had some bearing on the issue.<br/><br/>To ensure that the research is in part …
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Images of Welsh Women as Portrayed by Anglo-Welsh Women Novelists, 1850-1985.
… effectively confined women to the home.<br/><br/>Welsh women's history has mostly remained hidden, but recent studies of nineteenth century female education have highlighted the extent to which English middle class domestic ideology influenced Welsh society. To counteract the undesirable images of …
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The Welsh soldier: 1283-1422
… a study of the reality – and the myth – of the ‘Welsh soldier’ in the later middle ages. The final defeat of the Princes of Gwynedd in 1283 was formalised by the division of the principality of Gwynedd and the ‘feudalisation’ of its territory set out in the statute of Wales proclaimed at Rhuddlan …
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Gereint and its Welsh Contexts
… in the culture, politics, and rhetoric of the Welsh narrative tradition. The text is placed in its Welsh contexts, historical and literary, and interpretations are considered. Without reference to the French "romance” tradition, a purposeful “native tale” can be discerned. There are three …
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RUSSO-SEYMOUR-WELSH ON PERCOLATION MODELS
… thesis, we summarize the recent Russo-Seymour-Welsh (RSW) results and the application of the RSW result to evaluate crossing probabilities at criticality for both the Voronoi percolation and random cluster model. The statements and proofs follow closely the individual work of Tassion and the …
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Welsh Manipulations of the Matter of Britain
<p>"Welsh Manipulations of the Matter of Britain" examines the textual relationships between Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae and the Welsh Brut y Brenhinedd in the Cotton Cleopatra manuscript. This thesis initially provides an overview of the existing scholarship surrounding the …
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The Role of Welsh Language Journalism in Shaping the Construction of Welsh Identity and the National Character of Wales.
Ever since Edward I subjugated the Welsh in 1282 and, a little over 250 years later, Henry VIII attempted to wipe the country off the map, Wales has lived in the overpowering shadow of its powerful English neighbour. Unlike Scotland, Wales did not develop its own legal and banking systems and …
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ATTITUDES AND MOTIVATIONS OF WELSH NATIONALIST PARTY ACTIVISTS
… a group of activist members of Plaid Cymru, the Welsh Nationalist Party, whose motivations and attitudes are diagnosed, together with their consequences for political action. The importance of cultural and idealistic as against political and economic motivations is examined, while the major …
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Welsh Identity and Adam Usk’s Chronicle (1377-1421)
Adam Usk, a Welsh lawyer, wrote a chronicle during the early fifteenth century. In the work he recounts events that took place during his lifetime including the Glyndŵr rebellion in Wales (1400- 1415). In modern scholarship, however, Adam’s chronicle has been categorised as an ‘English’ chronicle …
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Dawn dweud: A study of colloquial and idiomatic welsh
… of the vagaries of colloquial and idiomatic Welsh. It includes proverbs, idioms, slang, set-phrases, dialect forms, varieties of pronunciation and, with many common words, colloquial varieties of meaning. In addition, the grammatical variations of colloquial and idiomatic Welsh are also …
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Narratives of trust, accountability and autonomy in Welsh education
… in time. It does so specifically because the Welsh education system is engaged in a period of significant reform and review. Many of the intended reforms are directly related to trust, accountability and autonomy. <br/><br/>The project explores the interview responses of twelve secondary …
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How is Welsh Government supporting Anchor Companies in Wales?
… arm of the National Assembly for Wales, the Welsh Government has gained powers in economic development. Cooke (2003) however, suggests that a weak devolution settlement has prevented Welsh Government from developing innovative economic policies and that a more powerful government is …
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The personnel of English and Welsh castles, 1272-1422
… castles by constables or owners of English or Welsh castles will be dealt with when examining the career of these people. The results of this study will be compared with those of scholars in other areas of Europe where the personnel of castles has been examined in more detail, hopefully adding …
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Mutation and the syntactic structure of modern colloquial Welsh
… of initial consonantal mutation in modern Welsh, and explore the syntactic structure of this language: I will concentrate on the syntax of Colloquial rather than Literary Welsh. It transpires that mutation phenomena can frequently be cited as evidence for or against certain syntactic …
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Ecology of acidification and recovery in Welsh upland streams
This study investigates the current impact of acid deposition on the structure and function of benthic communities in streams of contrasting pH in mid-Wales, UK, and examines barriers to biological recovery across the sites. The results of field surveys across 30 streams revealed sustained effects …
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Ble mae’r Gymraeg? Where’s the Welsh? An investigation into the language of social interactions of secondary school students in a Welsh-medium secondary school.
… increase in the number of pupils from non-Welsh-speaking homes attending bilingual and Welsh-medium schools in Wales, the adoption of the language for social use amongst such pupils in anglicised regions of the country has been a matter of concern. This has led some to maintain that, for …
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