Wales glossary
Wales glossary
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St. Fagans, Battle of(8 May 1648) Taking place near present-day Cardiff, in terms of numbers engaged it was the biggest battle fought in Wales. Government troops under Thomas Horton, defeated a Welsh rebel force (made up of disaffected Parliamentarians and Glamorgan localists) under Rowland Laugharne. | |
St Fagans National History MuseumFounded in 1946 in the grounds of St. Fagans Castle, a 16th-century manor house in Glamorgan, it was originally called the ‘Welsh Folk Museum’ and was set up to provide reconstructed examples of Welsh vernacular architecture. Most buildings are domestic, but the museum now includes a working-men’s institute, a mill, several workshops, a nonconformist chapel and a medieval parish church. | |
Stipendiary MagistratePaid magistrate as opposed to voluntary, unpaid justices of the peace. | |
Stopes, MarieMost famous of twentieth-century advocates of birth control. Founded the first United Kingdom birth control clinic in 1921. | |
Stukeley, William(1687–1765) English antiquary, especially interested in Druidism. | |
SubsidyA form of taxation for a specified purpose. | |
SuffrageThe right to vote in parliamentary elections. | |
Sunday Closing (Wales) Act, 1881Prohibited the selling of alcohol in Wales on Sundays. This was in response to the growing influence of the Temperance Movement, which began in the United Kingdom in the 1830s and gained wide support in the second half of the century – notably, in Wales, amongst the nonconformist denominations. | |
Sunday SchoolSchools held by the religious denominations on Sundays as part of worship. Reading taught from the Bible and, in Wales, embraced adults as well as children. In Wales conducted very largely in the Welsh language. Came to have an important social and, to some extent, recreational function. | |