Wales glossary
Wales glossary
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Salesbury, WilliamImportant Welsh scholar, notable particularly for his translation of the New Testament into Welsh in 1567. | |
Salt Lake CityState capital of Utah and international headquarters of the Mormons. | |
Sandby, Paul(1725–1809) English watercolourist and engraver. | |
Sankey CommissionThe Royal Commission on the coal industry which in 1919 advocated state ownership of the industry. The report was rejected by the government. | |
SansculottesLiterally, without knee-breeches. Term applied to ultra-democrats of the French Revolution, especially to poor, ill-clad leaders of the populace. | |
SaracensName given to the Muhammadans of Syria and Palestine. Later used to denote all ‘infidel’ nations against whom crusades were preached. | |
Scotch CattleSecret societies of colliers mainly in Monmouthshire in the 1820s and 1830s who enforced community sanctions against blackleg workers and profiteers by direct action. The colliers wore masks and cattle skins and were led by a man rigged out with a horned bull's head. | |
Scotch LawSee Scotch Cattle. | |
ScriptoriumThe manuscript copying and illuminating section of a monastic house: the copying was often done in open carrels in the cloister rather than in a special room. | |
Second Severn CrossingA bridge which carries the M4 across the River Severn. Work on the crossing began in 1992 with completion in 1996. | |