Welsh Food Stories

Welsh Food Stories
Author: Carwyn Graves
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2022-05-26
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 191527902X

Welsh Food Stories explores more than two thousand years of history to discover the rich but forgotten heritage of Welsh foods – from oysters to cider, salted butter to salt-marsh lamb. Despite centuries of industry, ancient traditions have survived in pockets across the country among farmers, bakers, fisherfolk, brewers and growers who are taking Welsh food back to its roots, and trailblazing truly sustainable foods as they do so. In this important book, author Carwyn Graves travels Wales to uncover the country’s traditional foods and meet the people making them today. There are the owners of a local Carmarthenshire chip shop who never forget a customer, the couple behind Anglesey’s world-renowned salt company Halen Môn, and everyone else in between – all of them have unique and compelling stories to tell about how they contribute to the past, present and future of Welsh food. This is an evocative and insightful exploration of an often overlooked national cuisine, shining a spotlight on the importance – environmentally and socially – of keeping local food production alive.

Wales

Wales
Author: Sir Owen Morgan Edwards
Publisher:
Total Pages: 668
Release: 1895
Genre: Wales
ISBN:

Wales since 1939

Wales since 1939
Author: Martin Johnes
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2013-01-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1847795064

The period since 1939 saw more rapid and significant change than any other time in Welsh history. Wales developed a more assertive identity of its own and some of the apparatus of a nation state. Yet its economy floundered between boom and bust, its traditional communities were transformed and the Welsh language and other aspects of its distinctiveness were undermined by a globalizing world. Wales was also deeply divided by class, language, ethnicity, gender, religion and region. Its people grew wealthier, healthier and more educated but they were not always happier. This ground-breaking book examines the story of Wales since 1939, giving voice to ordinary people and the variety of experiences within the nation. This is a history of not just a nation, but of its residents’ hopes and fears, their struggles and pleasures and their views of where they lived and the wider world.

Godbothering

Godbothering
Author: Rhidian Brook
Publisher: SPCK
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-05-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780281083893

Bestselling novelist and broadcaster, Rhidian Brook, presents a spiritual commentary on our lives and times, drawn from his popular broadcasts on Radio 4's Thought for the Day.

Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales

Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales
Author: Glyn Williams
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2023-10-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000887499

Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales (1978) draws together recent research specifically on Wales, to overcome the overly-English takes on the ‘social structure of modern Britain’. A pattern of relative social deprivation is outlined, and such symptoms of this deprivation as second home ownership, school closure, economic peripheralism and inadequate social services become the marker of Wales’ marginality. The cultural marker of note is the Welsh language, several of the papers discussing its erosion and the steps taken to preserve and maintain it. While ethnicity serves as an integrating force, there are also divisions based upon class, which are discussed.

Contemporary Wales

Contemporary Wales
Author: The Open University
Publisher: The Open University
Total Pages: 195
Release:
Genre:
ISBN:

This 15-hour free course explored key aspects of the economy, society, politics and culture of contemporary Wales from a social science perspective.

Environmental Law and Policy in Wales

Environmental Law and Policy in Wales
Author: Patrick Bishop
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2013-03-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 178316025X

This book is a collective academic response from environmental law scholars sharing an interest in Welsh perspectives on today’s local and global environmental challenges. The editors brought colleagues together at a ground-breaking colloquium at Swansea University in April 2011, seeking to foster new legal approaches at a time that sees a new dynamic toward a devolved Wales, including in the environmental policy field. This afforded the opportunity to reflect on pressing environmental quandaries, and to bring together contributors’ conceptual insights and technical legal know-how in identifying ideas for potential responses and solutions. These environmental problems with palpably global implications, such as climate change, thus require engagement at regional and local levels to look to the future.