A Short History of Wales
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About This Book
Sir Owen Morgan Edwards (1858-1920) was a Welsh historian, an educationalist and a prolific writer, starting and editing the periodical Cymru in 1892 and Cymru'r Plant for children in 1894, intended to arouse interest among the people of Wales in their own language and history. He wrote a number of books on Welsh history.
Chapters (220)
- A SHORT HISTORY OF WALES
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- I WALES
- II THE WANDERING NATIONS
- III ROME
- IV THE NAME OF CHRIST
- V THE WELSH KINGS
- VI THE LAWS OF HOWEL
- VII THE NORMANS
- VIII GRIFFITH AP CONAN AND GRIFFITH AP REES
- IX OWEN GWYNEDD AND THE LORD REES
- X LLYWELYN THE GREAT
- XI THE LAST LLYWELYN
- XII CONQUERED WALES
- XIII CASTLE AND LONG-BOW
- XIV THE RISE OF THE PEASANT
- XV OWEN GLENDOWER
- XVI THE WARS OF THE ROSES
- XVII TUDOR ORDER
- XVIII THE REFORMATION
- XIX THE CIVIL WAR
- XX THE GREAT REVOLUTION
- XXI HOWEL HARRIS
- XXII THE REFORM ACTS
- XXIII EDUCATION
- XXIV LOCAL GOVERNMENT
- XXV THE WALES OF TO-DAY
- AN OUTLINE OF WELSH POLITICAL HISTORY
- INFLUENCES UNDER WHICH THE HISTORY OF WALES WAS FORMED
- THE PEOPLE WHO CAME INTO WALES
- I. THE WALES OF THE PRINCES
- II. THE WALES OF THE PEOPLE.
- TABLE I.—THE HOUSE OF CUNEDDA
- TABLE II.—GWYNEDD
- TABLE III.—DYNEVOR
- TABLE IV.—POWYS
- TABLE V.—MORTIMER
- TABLE VI.—TUTOR
- APPENDIX A—PARLIAMENTARY REFORM IN WALES [109]
- FOOTNOTES
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