Wales glossary
Wales glossary
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Illustrated London NewsIllustrated newspaper founded in 1842, dealing with domestic and international news. | |
IndemnityA sum paid as compensation for loss or by one party in a conflict to another to secure peace. | |
Independent LiberalsThe Liberal MPs who refused to support the National (in practice Conservative) government after the election of October 1931. | |
IndependentsThe name given historically to chapels of the Congregationalist denomination and still used for Welsh-language Congregationalist chapels. They were noted for democratic chapel government. | |
IndulgencesIn Roman Catholicism, remission of purgatorial atonement for sin secured by canonical penance. | |
InfillingThe process of building on land within town walls. | |
IngeniatorLiterally, engineer. | |
Insured WorkersThose workers who, in partnership with their employers, had paid unemployment insurance contributions under the 1920 Unemployment Insurance Act. Included almost all categories of workers except domestic workers, agricultural labourers and civil servants. | |
InterdictA church decree depriving groups of people or communities of all church services and sacraments. The Pope imposed a full interdict on King John’s England from 1208–14. | |
Iolo MorgannwgEdward Williams (1747–1826). Stonemason, polymath and democrat — also literary forger and inventor of the Gorsedd. | |
Irish Coercion BillProjected legislation of 1880, passed in 1881, to restore order in Ireland after the Irish National Land League had organised tenants into resisting eviction from their land. The first legislation for which the Parliamentary device of the closure was imposed by the Speaker of the House of Commons. | |
Irish Home RuleThe movement to give Ireland independence from the rest of Britain. | |