Wales glossary
Wales glossary
Monday, 29 April 2024, 2:38 AM
Site: Open Learning
Course: Welsh history and its sources (CYMRU_1)
Glossary: Wales glossary
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Taff Vale RailwayBuilt between 1836 and 1841 between Merthyr Tydfil and Cardiff, with Brunel as chief engineer. Subsequently, numerous branch lines were constructed – reaching Maerdy at the head of the Rhondda Fach in 1856. Construction involved the building of a substantial viaduct at Pontypridd. |
TaliesinSixth-century poet, the author of a number of poems contained in the fourteenth-century Book of Taliesin. |
Tân yn Llŷn(‘Fire in Llŷn’). On 8 September 1936 Lewis, Saunders, D.J. Williams and Lewis Valentine – three members of Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru, started a fire at a government ‘bombing school’ at Penyberth on the Llŷn Peninsula. Following the failure of a Caernarfon jury to agree a verdict, the trial was reheard in London, where the three were convicted and sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment. |
Tenant-in-chiefA magnate holding land directly from the king, as Llywelyn and the greater earls did. |
Test and Corporation ActsActs of 1661, 1673 and 1678 which prevented non-Anglicans from holding public office or being on municipal corporations. The Acts were repealed in 1828. |
Thomas, D. ALater Lord Rhondda. Liberal MP, coalowner, ally of Lloyd George. Helped create Cymru Fydd – and destroy it. |
Thomas, Dylan(1914–1953). Swansea-born poet, dramatist and short-story writer of international standing. |
Thomas, Gwyn(1913–1981), novelist and playwright , from Porth, Rhondda. |
Thomas, Ronald Stuart (R.S.)(1913–2000), Church in Wales minister and poet from Cardiff, who lived for most of his life in north Wales. |
TitheThe tenth of a person’s income given to supporting a church – in this case, the established Church of England. |