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Welsh history and its sources

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This free course, Welsh history and its sources, is a teaching and learning resource for anyone interested in Welsh history. It contains study materials, links to some of the most important institutions that contribute to our understanding of the history of Wales, and a pool of resources that can help you understand Welsh history and the way it is studied. Included in the material is a taster of the Open University course Small country, big history: themes in the history of Wales (A182).

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Overview
  • 1 Overview
  • 1.1 How the course works and what it contains
  • 1.1.1 Background
  • 1.1.2 Sources and resources
  • 1.1.3 Weblinks
  • 1.1.4 History tools
  • 2 Welsh history: text resources
  • 2 Welsh history: text resources
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.1.1 Edward I and Wales
  • 2.1.2 The Edwardian Conquest and its Military Consolidation
  • 2.1.3 Tudor Wales
  • 2.1.4 The Lower Orders
  • 2.1.5 The Remaking of Wales in the Eighteenth Century
  • 2.1.6 Beginnings of Radicalism
  • 2.1.7 People and Protest: Wales 1815–1880
  • 2.1.8 Parliament and People in Mid-Nineteenth Century Wales
  • 2.1.9 Wales 1880–1914
  • 2.1.10 From Riots to Revolt: Tonypandy and The Miners' Next Step
  • 2.1.11 Wales between the Wars
  • 2.1.12 Social Reactions to Economic Change
  • 2.1.13 Post-War Wales
  • 2.1.14 Wales and the Wider World
  • 3 Welsh history: audio resources
  • 3 Welsh history: audio resources
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 The Normans in Wales
  • 3.2.1 The Welsh experience of the Norman conquest
  • 3.3 Crown, conquest and communities
  • 3.3.1 The ‘warlike Welsh’
  • 3.3.2 Llywelyn ap Gruffydd
  • 3.3.3 The conquest of Wales
  • 3.4 Tudor Wales
  • 3.4.1 The aftermath of the Glyndwr rebellion
  • 3.4.2 The Tudors
  • 3.5 People and belief
  • 3.5.1 The Welsh New Testament
  • 3.5.2 Welsh religious life before the Reformation
  • 3.5.3 The Reformation in Wales
  • 3.6 Love and learning
  • 3.6.1 Eighteenth-century tourism of Wales
  • 3.7 Crisis
  • 3.7.1 Welsh nonconformity
  • 3.8 From blue books to white gloves
  • 3.8.1 Public houses
  • 3.8.2 Social unrest
  • 3.8.3 Iolo Morganwg
  • 3.9 Work and play
  • 3.9.1 Mealtimes
  • 3.9.2 The chapel
  • 3.9.3 The Sunday Closing Act
  • 3.9.4 Welsh rugby
  • 3.10 Secret sins
  • 3.10.1 Rural Wales
  • 3.11 Triumph and tragedy
  • 3.11.1 Colliery disasters
  • 3.12 To hell and back
  • 3.12.1 The impact of World War I
  • 3.12.2 Welsh women in World War I
  • 3.12.3 Coal cutting
  • 3.12.4 The coalfield community
  • 3.13 The Great Depression
  • 3.13.1 Women's lives in the Great Depression
  • 3.14 A new Jerusalem
  • 3.14.1 Wales in the 1950s and 1960s
  • 3.15 On a border in history
  • 3.15.1 The Welsh language movement
  • 3.15.2 A golden age of Welsh rugby
  • 3.15.3 Welsh identity
  • 4 Welsh history: video resources
  • 4 Welsh history: video resources
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Coast video extracts
  • 4.3 The celebrated Cyfarthfa band
  • 5 Welsh history: case study of David Lloyd George
  • 5 Welsh history: case study of David Lloyd George
  • 5.1 Overview
  • 5.2 Introduction
  • 5.3 ‘The Greatest Welshman Yet Born’? David Lloyd George and Wales
  • 5.4 Lloyd George, Wales and the world
  • 5.5 The individual in history
  • 5.6 References and further reading
  • 6 Welsh history: map and diagram resources
  • 6 Welsh history: map and diagram resources
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Edward I and Wales
  • 6.3 Tudor Wales
  • 6.4 The remaking of Wales in the eighteenth century
  • 6.5 People and protest
  • 6.6 Wales 1880–1914
  • 6.7 Wales between the Wars
  • 6.8 Post-War Wales
  • 7 Welsh history: image resources
  • 7 Welsh history: image resources
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Edward I and Wales
  • 7.3 Tudor Wales
  • 7.4 The remaking of Wales in the eighteenth century
  • 7.5 People and protest
  • 7.6 Wales 1880–1914
  • 7.7 Wales between the Wars
  • 7.8 Post-War Wales
  • 8 Welsh history: weblinks
  • 8 Welsh history: weblinks
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.1.1 Libraries, archives and museums
  • 8.1.2 Histories
  • 8.1.3 Sites, buildings and landscapes
  • 9 Welsh history: glossary
  • 9 Welsh history: glossary
  • 10 Bibliography of Welsh history
  • 10 Bibliography of Welsh history
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements

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