Wales glossary
Wales glossary
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SocinianismDerived from the names of two continental theologians who held Unitarian views (see also Unitarianism). | |
South African War | |
South Wales Miners' Federation‘The Fed’, established in 1898 to represent the interests of coal miners in south Wales. | |
SPCK | |
Speed, John(c.1552–1629) The great map-maker of the early seventeenth century. | |
Spencer Union1930s’ coal miners’ union in the English Midlands which broke away from the official old-established coalfield union. | |
SpragThe prop used to support the roof when working a seam of coal. | |
StallThe pillar and stall method of mining involved taking coal from an area, leaving a pillar of coal to support the roof. The mined area was the chamber or stall assigned to one miner to work. | |
Staniforth, J.M.Joseph Morewood Staniforth (1863–1921) was staff cartoonist for the Cardiff daily newspaper the Western Mail, its sister paper the Evening Express, and also for the Sunday newspaper the News of the World, from the early 1890s until his death. Estimated to have drawn over 15,000 cartoons in the course of his career, some of his most popular work was republished in separate volumes. | |