Wales glossary
Wales glossary
Tuesday, 21 May 2024, 2:24 PM
Site: Open Learning
Course: Welsh history and its sources (CYMRU_1)
Glossary: Wales glossary
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Secretary of State for WalesThe office of Secretary of State for Wales was created in October 1964 under Harold Wilson’s new Labour government. The Secretary, who in April the following year became head of the newly-created Welsh Office, had responsibility for Welsh issues and for some areas of public expenditure. |
SeigneurialPertaining to a feudal lord rather than to the king. |
Seigneurial demesnesLand worked directly by the lord of the manor’s servants. |
SeisedIn legal possession of property. |
SeneschalOfficial in household of prince to whom control of justice and administration was given. |
Senghennydd colliery disasterAn underground explosion at the Universal Colliery, Senghennydd, Glamorgan, killed 436 miners on 14 October, 1913: the worst disaster in the history of UK coalmining. |
SerfdomSerfs were tied to the lord’s land and went with the land when it changed ownership. |
Severn BridgeThe first Severn Bridge, a suspension bridge, was opened in 1966. |
Severn TunnelConstructed by the Great Western Railway company between 1873 and 1886 to connect the west of England with south Wales by railway. Chief engineer was Brunel. |
Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919Theoretically outlawed the exclusion of women from the professions on grounds of their sex alone. The act was often ignored and, in any case, women were excluded, on marriage, from, for example, the teaching profession. |