Wales glossary
Wales glossary
Saturday, 11 May 2024, 9:32 PM
Site: Open Learning
Course: Welsh history and its sources (CYMRU_1)
Glossary: Wales glossary
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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. |