Wales glossary
Wales glossary
Friday, 17 May 2024, 8:06 AM
Site: Open Learning
Course: Welsh history and its sources (CYMRU_1)
Glossary: Wales glossary
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Hughes, T. Rowland(1903–1949), novelist and poet from Llanberis, Caernarvonshire. |
Humphreys Owen, A. C.Liberal MP for Montgomery. Barrister. First Chairman of the Central Welsh Board. |
Hundredal JuriesEach county was divided into a number of units, each called a hundred (originally this probably meant a hundred families), and each hundred held its own court for minor offences. Juries played an important part in these courts. |
HundredsSee Hundredal Juries. |
Hunger MarchOne of the most popular forms of protest against unemployment and its consequent privations. The first from south Wales was in 1927 and they continued in the 1930s, mainly to London. |
HusbandmenRanked on the social scale below yeomen. Normally rented land up to perhaps 30 acres. |