Welsh history and its sources: Wales glossary

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Gresford Colliery disaster, Wrexham (1934)

On 22 September 1934, 266 men killed in underground explosion.

Gwenallt

See Jones, D. Gwenallt.

Gwladfa

Colony or national home for the Welsh in America.

Gwynedd

Medieval native Welsh princedom in north Wales.

Gwyneddigion

Literary and cultural society of the London Welsh, founded in 1770. It promoted eisteddfodau and the publication of Welsh manuscripts.

Gwyn, St. Richard

(c.1537–1584) Roman Catholic teacher in north Wales hanged, drawn and quartered under the Elizabethan anti-recusancy legislation. (See recusants.)

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