Welsh history and its sources

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Welsh history and its sources provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 25 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

Overview
  • This free course, Welsh history and its sources, is a teaching and learning resource for anyone interested in Welsh history. It contains study materials, links to some of the most important ...

Syllabus
    • Introduction
    • Learning outcomes
    • 1 Overview
    • 1 Overview
    • 1.1 How the course works and what it contains
    • 1.1.1 Background
    • 1.1.2 Sources and resources
    • 1.1.3 Weblinks
    • 1.1.4 History tools
    • 2 Welsh history: text resources
    • 2 Welsh history: text resources
    • 2.1 Introduction
    • 2.1.1 Edward I and Wales
    • 2.1.2 The Edwardian Conquest and its Military Consolidation
    • 2.1.3 Tudor Wales
    • 2.1.4 The Lower Orders
    • 2.1.5 The Remaking of Wales in the Eighteenth Century
    • 2.1.6 Beginnings of Radicalism
    • 2.1.7 People and Protest: Wales 1815–1880
    • 2.1.8 Parliament and People in Mid-Nineteenth Century Wales
    • 2.1.9 Wales 1880–1914
    • 2.1.10 From Riots to Revolt: Tonypandy and The Miners' Next Step
    • 2.1.11 Wales between the Wars
    • 2.1.12 Social Reactions to Economic Change
    • 2.1.13 Post-War Wales
    • 2.1.14 Wales and the Wider World
    • 3 Welsh history: audio resources
    • 3 Welsh history: audio resources
    • 3.1 Introduction
    • 3.2 The Normans in Wales
    • 3.2.1 The Welsh experience of the Norman conquest
    • 3.3 Crown, conquest and communities
    • 3.3.1 The ‘warlike Welsh’
    • 3.3.2 Llywelyn ap Gruffydd
    • 3.3.3 The conquest of Wales
    • 3.4 Tudor Wales
    • 3.4.1 The aftermath of the Glyndwr rebellion
    • 3.4.2 The Tudors
    • 3.5 People and belief
    • 3.5.1 The Welsh New Testament
    • 3.5.2 Welsh religious life before the Reformation
    • 3.5.3 The Reformation in Wales
    • 3.6 Love and learning
    • 3.6.1 Eighteenth-century tourism of Wales
    • 3.7 Crisis
    • 3.7.1 Welsh nonconformity
    • 3.8 From blue books to white gloves
    • 3.8.1 Public houses
    • 3.8.2 Social unrest
    • 3.8.3 Iolo Morganwg
    • 3.9 Work and play
    • 3.9.1 Mealtimes
    • 3.9.2 The chapel
    • 3.9.3 The Sunday Closing Act
    • 3.9.4 Welsh rugby
    • 3.10 Secret sins
    • 3.10.1 Rural Wales
    • 3.11 Triumph and tragedy
    • 3.11.1 Colliery disasters
    • 3.12 To hell and back
    • 3.12.1 The impact of World War I
    • 3.12.2 Welsh women in World War I
    • 3.12.3 Coal cutting
    • 3.12.4 The coalfield community
    • 3.13 The Great Depression
    • 3.13.1 Women's lives in the Great Depression
    • 3.14 A new Jerusalem
    • 3.14.1 Wales in the 1950s and 1960s
    • 3.15 On a border in history
    • 3.15.1 The Welsh language movement
    • 3.15.2 A golden age of Welsh rugby
    • 3.15.3 Welsh identity
    • 4 Welsh history: video resources
    • 4 Welsh history: video resources
    • 4.1 Introduction
    • 4.2 Coast video extracts
    • 4.3 The celebrated Cyfarthfa band
    • 5 Welsh history: case study of David Lloyd George
    • 5 Welsh history: case study of David Lloyd George
    • 5.1 Overview
    • 5.2 Introduction
    • 5.3 ‘The Greatest Welshman Yet Born’? David Lloyd George and Wales
    • 5.4 Lloyd George, Wales and the world
    • 5.5 The individual in history
    • 5.6 References and further reading
    • 6 Welsh history: map and diagram resources
    • 6 Welsh history: map and diagram resources
    • 6.1 Introduction
    • 6.2 Edward I and Wales
    • 6.3 Tudor Wales
    • 6.4 The remaking of Wales in the eighteenth century
    • 6.5 People and protest
    • 6.6 Wales 1880–1914
    • 6.7 Wales between the Wars
    • 6.8 Post-War Wales
    • 7 Welsh history: image resources
    • 7 Welsh history: image resources
    • 7.1 Introduction
    • 7.2 Edward I and Wales
    • 7.3 Tudor Wales
    • 7.4 The remaking of Wales in the eighteenth century
    • 7.5 People and protest
    • 7.6 Wales 1880–1914
    • 7.7 Wales between the Wars
    • 7.8 Post-War Wales
    • 8 Welsh history: weblinks
    • 8 Welsh history: weblinks
    • 8.1 Introduction
    • 8.1.1 Libraries, archives and museums
    • 8.1.2 Histories
    • 8.1.3 Sites, buildings and landscapes
    • 9 Welsh history: glossary
    • 9 Welsh history: glossary
    • 10 Bibliography of Welsh history
    • Conclusion
    • Acknowledgements