Tag: Victorian Wales

• 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

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• St David, Feast and Nation: Faith, Respectability, and the Welsh Diaspora

  

  Saint David, Dewi Sant, stands at the centre of Welsh national consciousness in a manner unmatched by most European patron saints. His importance lies not only in religion, but in the way successive generations of Welsh people have used his memory to articulate identity, morality, and belonging. Nowhere is this clearer than in the evolution…

  Antony David Davies

  Religion

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