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National Museums is the first book to explore the national museum as a cultural institution in a range of contrasting national contexts. Composed of new studies of countries that rarely make a showing in the English-language studies of museums, this book reveals how these national museums have been used to create a sense of national self, place the nation in the arts, deal with the consequences of political change, remake difficult pasts, and confront those issues of nationalism, ethnicity and multiculturalism which have come to the fore in national politics in recent decades. National Museums combines research from both leading and new researchers in the fields of history, museum studies, cultural studies, sociology, history of art, media studies, science and technology studies, and anthropology. It is an interrogation of the origins, purpose, organisation, politics, narratives and philosophies of national museums.
Iorwerth C. Peate's outstanding achievement was to create a National Folk Museum at St. Fagans. It was Peate who dreamt of an open-air museum in Wales on the Scandinavian model where the visitor could view the way of life of past ages. It was he, too, more than anyone else, who strove to see the dream realized and to establish the study of folk life as a respected academic discipline in Britain. The story of these accomplishments, and of the opposition Peate encountered within the National Museum of Wales, for example is lucidly outlined by Catrin Stevens. She also presents a clear and useful appraisal of Peate's academic writing in the field of folk studies. "
Beautiful collection of essays and photographs, showing Green's choice of the 100 most significant objects in Welsh history. Evoking key moments in Wales' past through tangible, physical artefacts, they include a hand axe from 32,000 BC, William Morgan's Bible and Catatonia's first release. Reprint. Originally Published by Gwasg Gomer in 2018.
Martin Parr's work is famous for its humour and his quirky vision of British life. The book reflects Parr's unique vision, humour and style as he looks at aspects of life and popular culture in Wales, from his famous love of beaches and beach holidays - in sun or rain - to coal mining and the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show.
An ambitious and extremely comprehensive reference book with hundreds of colour photos, presenting the whole of Wales' maritime history.
Cefndir casgliad celf byd-enwog Amgueddfa Cymru. Hanes chwiorydd Gregynog yn defnyddio'r cyfoeth a grëwyd gan y Chwyldro Diwydiannol yng Nghymru a'u cydwybod crefyddol i drawsnewid bywyd diwylliannol Cymru. Mae'r llyfr yn cyd-fynd â'r arddangosfa bwysig sy'n dathlu canmlwyddiant yr Amgueddfa yn Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd. Adargraffiad; cyhoeddwyd gyntaf yn 2007. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
The caves of the Elwy valley contain evidence of the earliest human occupation of Wales, the site at Pontnewydd having transformed understanding of human settlement. This monograph documents the results of 20 years of field research.
Slates from quarries in Wales once went to roof the world. By the late nineteenth century as many as a third of all the roofing slates produced worldwide came from Wales, competing with quarries in France and the United States. This book traces the industry from its origins in the Roman period, its slow medieval development and then its massive expansion in the nineteenth century – as well as through its long drawn-out decline in the twentieth.
The purpose of the book is to give visitors to the medieval castles of Wales a concise but informative description of the main publicly accessible sites in a convenient format. An introductory chapter outlines the development of castle architecture in Britain, drawing on Welsh examples, with a number of ‘box features’ that elaborate more fully on particular aspects, such as gatehouses, or key personalities such as Llywelyn Fawr. Five chapters form a regionally based gazetteer of the castles described. Each entry is prefaced with a key to arrangements at each castle, such as whether there is an entry charge. The know history of any given site is then summarized, and this is then followed by the core of each entry, namely the description of the visible remains, to enable visitors to navigate their way around. Some of the descriptions of the larger sites are accompanied by plans. A final chapter provides a brief overview of castle-like buildings dating from the seventeenth century onwards, and this is followed by a guide to further reading.