Tag: Welsh civic identity

• 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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• Owen Owen (1847-1910) of Machynlleth

  

  Retail, Respectability, and the Democratization of the High Street There is a recognisable Montgomeryshire pattern in the nineteenth century. Men formed in small, chapel-centred communities along the Dyfi valley stepped into the expanding commercial world of Britain and quietly helped to reshape it. Coal and rail have long dominated our understanding of Welsh industrial influence,…

  Antony David Davies

  History

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