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Project Gutenberg's Short History of Wales, by Owen M. Edwards

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[ Introduction ] By Owen Edwards, Lincoln College, Oxford.

[ Chapters 1 through_5 ]

CHAPTER I--WALES

CHAPTER II--THE WANDERING NATIONS

CHAPTER III--ROME

CHAPTER IV--THE NAME OF CHRIST

CHAPTER V--THE WELSH KINGS

[ Chapters 6 through 10 ]

CHAPTER VI--THE LAWS OF HOWEL

CHAPTER VII--THE NORMANS

CHAPTER VIII--GRIFFITH AP CONAN AND GRIFFITH AP REES

CHAPTER IX--OWEN GWYNEDD AND THE LORD REES

CHAPTER X--LLYWELYN THE GREAT

[ Chapters 11 through 14 ]

CHAPTER XI--THE LAST LLYWELYN

CHAPTER XII--CONQUERED WALES

CHAPTER XIII--CASTLE AND LONG-BOW

CHAPTER XIV--THE RISE OF THE PEASANT

 

[ Chapters 15 through 19 ]

CHAPTER XV--OWEN GLENDOWER

CHAPTER XVI--THE WARS OF THE ROSES

CHAPTER XVII--TUDOR ORDER

CHAPTER XVIII--THE REFORMATION

CHAPTER XIX--THE CIVIL WAR

 

[ Chapters 20 through 25 ]

CHAPTER XX--THE GREAT REVOLUTION

CHAPTER XXI--HOWEL HARRIS

CHAPTER XXII--THE REFORM ACTS

CHAPTER XXIII--EDUCATION

CHAPTER XXIV--LOCAL GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER XXV--THE WALES OF TO-DAY

Includes

AN OUTLINE OF WELSH POLITICAL HISTORY

INFLUENCES UNDER WHICH THE HISTORY OF WALES WAS FORMED

THE PEOPLE WHO CAME INTO WALES

THE WALES OF THE PRINCES

THE WALES OF THE PEOPLE

THE HOUSE OF CUNEDDA

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM IN WALES

 

 

[ The Fine Print ] [ Introduction ]

[ Chapters 1 through_5 ] [ Chapters 6 through 10 ]

[ Chapters 11 through 14 ] [ Chapters 15 through 19 ] [ Chapters 20 through 25 ]

Also see : [ A Welsh history synopsis by David Fortin ]

[ The Description of Wales by Geraldus Cambrensis originally written in 1194, this text is from the 1912 J. M. Dent edition.]

 

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