Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Studies in Welsh History: Cardiganshire and the Cardi, c.1760-c.2000 - Locating a Place and Its People — Locating a Place and Its People
Studies in Welsh History: Cardiganshire and the Cardi, c.1760-c.2000 - Locating a Place and Its People — Locating a Place and Its People
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Mae'r gyfrol hon yn edrych ar sir Geredigion a'i phobol (y Cardis) ers canol y ddeunawfed ganrif. Y mae'r darlun wedi newid yn ddramatig gyda threigl y blynyddoedd, ac mae'r llyfr hwn yn astudio'r newidiadau hynny er mwyn cynnig darlun cyflawn o'r ardal arbennig hon o Gymru a'i thrigolion.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
This book explores the ways in which the distinctive Welsh county of Cardigan and its inhabitants (known as Cardis) have been represented during the late modern era. The image of both Cardiganshire and the Cardi changed considerably during this period, and this representational history examines the reasons why these shifts took place.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9780708323946
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9780708323946
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Studies in Welsh History: Cardiganshire and the Cardi, c.1760-c.2000 - Locating a Place and Its People — Locating a Place and Its People
- Sub Title
- Locating a Place and Its People
- Awdur / Author
- Benbough-Jackson, Mike
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- £6.99
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- £6.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Non-Stock Item - Ordered on request
- Availability Status (CY)
- Archebir yn ôl y galw
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2011-07-08
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 290 pages
- Size
- 138 × 216 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Hanes, Hanes Lleol, Arferion Gwlad, Llên Gwerin (yn Saesneg) | EN: History, Welsh Life and Customs, Local History, Folk Tales (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Hanes Lleol (yn Saesneg) | EN: Local History (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Mike Benbough-Jackson is a Senior Lecturer in History at Liverpool John Moores University. He is the author of a number of articles on the cultural and social history of Wales and the Welsh.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
The author, a senior lecturer in history at Liverpool John Moores University during recent years, is well known for his slim volume Cardiganshire: the Concise History published in 2007 by the University of Wales Press in its series on the history of various Welsh counties. The present volume, a revision of the author’s doctoral thesis, considers the image of ‘the Cardi’, described as ‘a hard-headed, thrifty, business-minded individual whose mores set him apart from his countryman’, and comparable with conventional images of the Yorkshireman in England and the Aberdonian in Scotland. Although the appeal of the volume might have been enriched by the inclusion of more illustrative material, the research underpinning it is awesomely extensive and complete, including many disparate archival sources, official papers and reports, a wide range of newspaper and journal material, contemporary sources including poetry and prose works, and travel guides. The thoughts and ideas of numerous individuals, among them politicians and public figures, serious and amateur academics, tinkers and countrymen, and joke-writers, are all considered fully and given an equal place in the compelling analysis. The author adopts a fairly tight chronological framework, and the analysis runs from the middle of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first. Consideration of outside influences and inroads into Cardiganshire at the beginning of this lengthy period leads to an analysis of the much-increased contact with other areas, primarily in the wake of the arrival of the railway and accelerated trading links. Outsiders and visitors still commented on features such as ‘a lack of religious attendance, illegitimacy, idleness and vanity’, allegedly prominent among the Cardiganshire population (p. 110). From about the 1870s onwards, Benbough-Jackson shows how the county and its inhabitants displayed a much greater distinctiveness. Those who migrated to south Wales formed their own discrete, self-contained groupings in the industrial valley communities. During the inter-war years, the county’s image was moulded by the continuing striking prevalence of farming in Cardiganshire and its steadily declining population in the wake of large-scale migration. This individuality was, at one and the same time, ‘criticized and complimented in equal measure’ by observers. Then, from about the mid-point of the twentieth century, the county’s characteristics perceptibly weakened and the traditional image of the Cardi was generally disliked in the wake of the ever-increasing encroachment of the State, but a certain element of county individualism still persists to the present day. The author’s overall conclusion is that Cardiganshire, in spite of its isolation and relatively small size, attained a distinctive cultural presence within Wales, and indeed beyond, much greater than many observers anticipated. The rich array of material accumulated by the author amply confirms this.
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