The Edge Of Cymru
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The Edge Of Cymru
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Author : Julie Brominicks
language : en
Publisher: Seren
Release Date : 2023-03-06
The Edge Of Cymru written by Julie Brominicks and has been published by Seren this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-06 with Travel categories.
In the course of a year Julie Brominicks walked around the edge of Wales, having left her job in environmental education at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth. As an English incomer and a Welsh learner with a long association with the country, she was interested in what Wales meant, and how she did, or didn't, fit in to it. The result is a fascinating alternative travelogue, which merges topography, history, environmentalism and observation of nature, to produce the 'long view' of Wales, discovering the roots of the present in the past, sometimes the distant past. Brominicks' observations of the places and people she discovers around Wales are lively and well-written, although this is her journey (in many senses of that word) the narrative is at least as interested in who she meets and what she sees, especially of 'ordinary life'. She brings the everyday to life in thought-provoking ways, her book a new way of looking at the place where we live and the people with whom we live our lives, knowingly and unknowingly. Her writing is lyrical, studded with engaging and striking coinages and images which take the reader along the journey with her, both entertained and informed. The Edge of Cymru is a refreshingly new way of looking at place, identity, memory and belonging, especially through an environmental lens. It rewards the reader, whether they are interested in Wales specifically, or the world generally. "Bursts with beautiful, descriptive prose, which picks up the minutia of each moment... Brominicks skilfully examines broad social, environmental, political, economic and even geological changes without the book feeling dry... as accessible as a novel and would make a great holiday read as much as a bedside book." – Countryfile Magazine
Edge Of Cymru
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
Edge Of Cymru written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with categories.
Edging The City
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Author : Peter Finch
language : en
Publisher: Seren
Release Date : 2022-06-27
Edging The City written by Peter Finch and has been published by Seren this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-27 with Travel categories.
"What Edging the City does so effectively, though, is defamiliarize and enrich these landscapes, with allusion, digression and depth, all painted in seemingly effortless poetic prose. Finch lifts the apparently mundane to a place of real literary significance, giving some of these lesser-known quarters the attention they deserve."– Nation.Cymru Finch's writing is as jovial as it is fascinating...Edging The City is engaging in every sense of the word." – Buzz Magazine Peter Finch is perhaps the foremost chronicler of Cardiff, past and present. His response to the 2020 lockdown restrictions confining people to their local authority area was to begin walking the boundary of his. Full of insights and discoveries that will delight walkers and armchair travellers alike, Edging the City offers a view of Cardiff like no other.
Writing On The Edge
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Author : David T. Lloyd
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-06-08
Writing On The Edge written by David T. Lloyd and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Complex and controversial issues have accompanied the development of English-language literature in Wales, generating a continuing debate over the nature of Welsh writing in English. The main issues include the claim of some Welsh-language writers to represent the only authentic literature of Wales, the question of whether or not an extended literary tradition in English has existed in Wales, the absence (until fairly recently) of a publishing apparatus for English-language writers, the rise of a Welsh nationalism committed to preserving the Welsh language, and the question of whether English-language literature in Wales can be distinguished from English literature proper. The primary impulse for the interviews with the thirteen writers and editors in Writing on the Edge was to explore these and other issues relating to the literary and cultural identity in Wales in the last decade. The book's title reflects these ongoing debates about the nature and direction of contemporary Welsh literature in English, which is often perceived as peripheral both to Welsh-speaking Wales and to the literary culture of England. As one of the contributors to the volume says This is what it is to be Welsh ... It's an edge. There's no moment of life in Wales that hasn't got that edge, unless you decide you're not Welsh.
On The Edge
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Author : Robert Duck
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-22
On The Edge written by Robert Duck and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-22 with History categories.
The building of railways has had a profound but largely ignored physical impact on Britain's coasts. This book explores the coming of railways to the edge of Britain, the ruthlessness of the companies involved and the transformation of our coasts through
A View From The Edge
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Author : Leslie Griffiths
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2010-09-30
A View From The Edge written by Leslie Griffiths and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Leslie Griffiths is one of the outstanding Christians of his generation. His story begins in real poverty in South Wales and leads him, via ordination, to Haiti to work with some of the poorest people on earth. He experienced Liberation Theology before it had been articulated and was the biographer of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the Roman Catholic priest and Liberation Theologian who became Haiti's President. At home, Leslie Griffiths is one of the very few people to have been elected President of the Methodist Conference whilst still a circuit minister. As minister of Wesley's Chapel, Tony Blair appointed him a working peer in the House of Lords. A writer and broadcaster, he was a long-time contributor to Thought for the Day. This is his remarkable story.
Equality And Public Policy
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Author : Paul Chaney
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2011-01-31
Equality And Public Policy written by Paul Chaney and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-31 with Political Science categories.
Equality of opportunity is a contested concept. It evokes strong emotions from proponents and opponents alike. Enduring issues of inequality and discrimination mean that it remains at the forefront of political priorities in the twenty-first century. Traditional analyses tend to focus on developments at the level of the unitary state or European Union. In contrast, this book underlines the salience of multi-level governance and offers the first detailed comparative analysis of contemporary efforts to promote equality of opportunity in the wake of constitutional reform in the UK. It presents a summary of social theory on equalities in relation to gender, and a full range of social groups and identities - such as disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation and age. It outlines the contemporary evidence base relating to patterns and processes of inequality in the 'devolved' nations. A 'governance perspective' is also advanced; one that details how constitutional law establishing the devolved legislatures contains equality clauses that enable and empower government to promote equality in public policy and law. Analysis reveals the development of distinctive regulatory structures and equalities policy lobbies in each territory. Overall, this volume charts the development of divergent legal rights and public policy on the promotion of equality in the wake of constitutional reform in the UK. Notwithstanding ongoing challenges, it is argued that the move to quasi-federalism is significant for it marks a shift from the predominant, centralised administration of social policy witnessed throughout the twentieth century, to divergent approaches designed to address contrasting socio-economic patterns and processes in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The Journey Is Home
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Author : John Sam Jones
language : en
Publisher: Parthian
Release Date : 2022-11-07
The Journey Is Home written by John Sam Jones and has been published by Parthian this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this clear and absorbing memoir, John Sam Jones writes of a life lived on the edge. It's a story of journeys and realisation, of acceptance and joy. From a boyhood on the coast of Wales to a traumatic period as an undergraduate in Aberystwyth, and on to a scholarship at Berkley on the San Francisco Bay as the AIDS epidemic began to take hold, before returning to Liverpool and north Wales to work in chaplaincy, education, and sexual health. A journey of becoming a writer and chronicler of his experiences with award-winning books and the somewhat reluctant compulsion to become a campaigner for LGBT rights in Wales. The adventure of running a guest house in Barmouth where he eventually became Mayor with his husband, a German academic, whom he had married after a long partnership. Just days after European Referendum they put the business on the market... and then moved to Germany. John is still on that journey.
Catalogue Of The Mesolithic And Neolithic Collections At The National Museums And Galleries Of Wales
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Author : Stephen Burrow
language : en
Publisher: National Museum Wales
Release Date : 2003
Catalogue Of The Mesolithic And Neolithic Collections At The National Museums And Galleries Of Wales written by Stephen Burrow and has been published by National Museum Wales this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Excavations (Archaeology) categories.
This essential and unique aspect of the Museum's collections is comprehensively catalogued for the first time. Contains background information on archaeological finds and their locations.
Growing Wales Civil Society
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Author : John Osmond
language : en
Publisher: Institute of Welsh Affairs
Release Date : 2011
Growing Wales Civil Society written by John Osmond and has been published by Institute of Welsh Affairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book reports a Welsh debate around the key findings of the Carnegie Trusts' Commission of an Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland, published in March 2010. The aim was to ask how the Carnegie findings relate to the emergence of Welsh civil society following a decade of devolution.