Tag: Powys history

• Arthur Charles Humphreys-Owen (1836–1905): A Liberal Landowner in a Changing Wales

  

  In the political and civic history of Montgomeryshire during the nineteenth century, Arthur Charles Humphreys-Owen stands as a representative figure of a transitional generation. Born into the professional middle ranks of respectable society, but elevated through inheritance into the county gentry, Humphreys-Owen embodied the gradual adaptation of the landed class to the expanding civic and…

  Antony David Davies

  Politics

  Arthur Humphreys-Owen, Berriew history, books, Cambrian Railways, Central Welsh Board for Intermediate Education, David Lloyd George, Education Act 1902 Wales, Edwardian Wales, Glansevern Hall, History, Liberal MP Montgomeryshire, Mid Wales history, Mid Wales railways, Montgomeryshire County Council history, Montgomeryshire gentry, Montgomeryshire history, Nonconformist Wales, Oswestry railway works, Powys history, Rural Wales history, Stuart Rendel, Victorian landowners Wales, Victorian Montgomeryshire, Victorian Wales, Wales, Welsh county gentry, Welsh education history, Welsh Intermediate Education Act 1889, Welsh Liberal Party, Welsh Liberalism, Welsh local government history, Welsh parliamentary history, Welsh political history, writing

• David Gibson-Watt (1918-2002) of Doldowlod Hall

  

  Land, Service, Unionism, and the Passing of a Governing Tradition in Mid-Wales James David Gibson-Watt, later Baron Gibson-Watt, occupies a distinctive place in the political and social history of twentieth-century Wales. He was not merely a Conservative politician associated with Radnorshire, but a representative of a governing culture rooted in landownership, military service, and paternalistic…

  Antony David Davies

  Politics

  1979 Welsh referendum, British state administration, British Unionism, Conservative Party Wales, David Gibson-Watt, Doldowlod House, Forestry in Wales, Hereford and Radnor, History, Keir Starmer, Labour Party, Landed gentry Wales, Llandrindod Wells history, Lord Gibson-Watt, Mid Wales history, Modern Welsh history, montgomeryshire-history, Political history of Wales, Politics, Post-war British politics, Powys history, Radnorshire history, Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, Rural Wales, UK politics, Welsh Conservatism, Welsh constitutional history, Welsh devolution, Welsh estates, Welsh Governance, Welsh Marches, Welsh Office history, Welsh political history, Welsh rural society

• Rhodri Mawr and the First Architecture of Welsh Power

  

  Introduction, Beyond Legend Rhodri Mawr, who died in 878, stands at a structural turning point in Welsh history. He was neither the first king in Wales nor the ruler of a unified nation in any modern sense. Yet during his lifetime the scale at which Welsh politics operated changed perceptibly. What had been a mosaic…

  Antony David Davies

  History

  9th century Britain, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Annales Cambriae, Carolingian Europe, Celtic Britain, Early medieval Wales, Gwynedd, heritage, History, House of Aberffraw, Hywel Dda, Irish Sea world, Medieval Britain, Medieval genealogy, Medieval Welsh kings, Mercia, Offa’s Dyke, Powys, Powys history, Rhodri Mawr, Sedulius Scottus, Seisyllwg, Viking Age Wales, vikings, Welsh constitutional history, Welsh dynasties, Welsh history, Welsh identity, Welsh law, Welsh political history, Welsh princes, Welsh sovereignty, Welsh state formation, writing

• Trevor Owen Davies (1895–1966)

  

  A Farm Boy at Christ Church, Oxford, A Welsh Scholar in Public Life In 1920s Oxford, the halls of Christ Church were filled with the sons of the English landed elite. Among them sat an unlikely figure: a farm labourer from the Dyfi Valley who had traded his plough for Augustine. Trevor Owen Davies was…

  Antony David Davies

  Religion

  20th-century-wales, Augustine theology, BBC Religious Advisory Council, Brecknockshire history, Caeadda, Calvinistic Methodism, Christ Church Oxford, christianity, History, Justice of the Peace Wales, Llanwrin, llyfnant-valley, Machynlleth County School, Mid Wales history, Montgomeryshire, Oxford theology, Powys history, Presbyterian Church of Wales, Reformed theology, Rural Wales, Social history, Trefeca College, Trevecka College, Trevor O Davies, Trevor Owen Davies, University College Aberystwyth, Wales, Welsh biography, Welsh broadcasting history, Welsh chapel culture, Welsh clergy, Welsh education history, Welsh history, Welsh intellectual history, Welsh ministers, Welsh Nonconformity, Welsh Public Life, Welsh rural society

• When an English City Drowned a Welsh Village: Llanwyddyn and the Making of Lake Vyrnwy

  

  In the summer of 2018, after weeks of sustained heat, the waters of Lake Vyrnwy receded to levels rarely seen in recent decades (source 1). Along the exposed margins of the reservoir, fragments of masonry and faint outlines of foundations emerged from the silt, traces of lanes and walls briefly visible once more (source 1).…

  Antony David Davies

  Culture

  adventure, books, Capel Celyn, drowned villages, extractive economy, Gothic Revival architecture, History, infrastructure and power, Lake Vyrnwy, Liverpool Corporation Waterworks Act 1880, Liverpool waterworks, Llanwyddyn, lost villages UK, montgomeryshire-history, nineteenth century Wales, Powys history, public health reform, resource extraction Wales, rural parish life, social history of Wales, St Wyddelan, submerged communities, travel, Tryweryn, upland communities, Victorian engineering, victorian-wales, Wales, water politics, Welsh Chapels, Welsh heritage, Welsh industrial history, Welsh landscape history, Welsh Nonconformity, Welsh-English relations, welsh-rural-history