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...determining factor: while the quarrymen of Bethesda and Blaenau Ffestiniog are one side of the coin, on the other its collieries produced the Rhondda’s famed choirs of Pendyrus and Treorchy, while in west Wales the poured molten metal of the metallurgical works of the Swansea district contributed to the mellow tones we associate with Dunvant and Morriston Orpheus; along...

...determination appealed to Byron, who espoused Italian nationalism and advocated the liberation of the Greeks from the Turks. It seems to have been something of a Romantic trait to identify with such causes, and to get involved in foreign adventures. Similarly, in the twentieth-century the Spanish Civil War attracted ardent and idealistic supporters. Romanticism did not...