Wales glossary
Wales glossary
Friday, 10 May 2024, 7:15 AM
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Course: Welsh history and its sources (CYMRU_1)
Glossary: Wales glossary
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GatehouseSee Concentric. |
GavelkindSee Cyfran. |
Geddes’ AxeThe economy measures of 1922 formulated by Sir Eric Geddes. |
Gee, Thomas(1815-1898) Denbigh-born Nonconformist preacher and publisher. |
General StrikeThe strike of all the major trade unions in May 1926. The TUC called off the strike after nine days and the miners were left to fight on alone. |
George of HanoverProtestant German prince who succeeded the childless Queen Anne as King George I in 1714. |
Giraldus Cambrensis/ Gerallt Cymro /Gerald of Wales(c.1146–1223) Archdeacon of Brecon. Undertook famous itinerary around Wales in 1188 with Bishop Baldwin to recruit soldiers for the third crusade. Resulted in one of the most important of medieval source writings, the Itinerarium Kambriae (The Journey through Wales). Great proponent of independence of see of St Davids from Canterbury. |
Gladstone, W. E.MP from 1832. Leader of the Liberal Party from 1867. Four times Prime Minister. |
Glamorganshire CanalConstructed between 1790 and 1798, from Merthyr Tydfil to Cardiff, to transport iron to the sea for export. The canal was 25 miles long, with 50 locks. |
Glan-y-gors, JacJohn Jones (1766–1821), satirical poet living in London; published the views of Tom Paine in Seren tan Gwmwl (1795) and Toriad y Dydd (1797). |
GlendowerAnglicised form of the name Owain Glyndŵr, whose rising against the English king after 1400 gave Wales a brief period of independence. |
Glyndŵr RevoltSee Owain Glyndŵr. |
Gnoll EstateOne of the main landed estates in Neath, West Glamorgan. |
GobAn empty space from which coal has been taken in the long-wall system of mining, or the rubbish used to fill it. |
Gold StandardThe means of regulating the currency and money supply suspended during the First World War. Restored by Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in 1925. It led, effectively, to a ten per cent rise in the external value of sterling. |
G.O.M.Grand Old Man. W. E. Gladstone’s nickname. |
GorseddBardic organisation and ceremonial invented by Morganwg, Iolo in the 1790s. |
Gray, Thomas(1716–71) English poet. |
Great SessionsSee Courts of Great Sessions. |
Great Western RailwayThe Great Western Railway Company was founded in 1833 to construct a railway link between south Wales, the south west of England, and London. Brunel was appointed its chief engineer, and the project involved the building of the Severn Tunnel. |
Gresford Colliery disaster, Wrexham (1934)On 22 September 1934, 266 men killed in underground explosion. |
GwenalltSee Jones, D. Gwenallt. |
GwladfaColony or national home for the Welsh in America. |
GwyneddMedieval native Welsh princedom in north Wales. |
GwyneddigionLiterary and cultural society of the London Welsh, founded in 1770. It promoted eisteddfodau and the publication of Welsh manuscripts. |
Gwyn, St. Richard(c.1537–1584) Roman Catholic teacher in north Wales hanged, drawn and quartered under the Elizabethan anti-recusancy legislation. (See recusants.) |