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As the author explains in the preface it is "a circular book" and although it begins with the meeting of her parents (Sir George Darwin and Maud du Puy) and ends with Gwen as a student at The Slade, it is not written chronologically, but rather arranged in a series of fifteen themed chapters, each dealing with a particular aspects of life.
Weapons That Made Britain is a British 2004 television documentary series. It was made by independent production company Lion Television (now part of All3media) for Channel 4. It was presented by film fight coordinator and medieval weapons trainer, Mike Loades. The Executive Producer across the series was Bill Locke. [1]
Gwendolen Mary "Gwen" Raverat (née Darwin; 26 August 1885 – 11 February 1957), was an English wood engraver who was a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers. [1] Her memoir Period Piece was published in 1952.
The medieval art of the Western world covers a vast scope of time and place, with over 1000 years of art in Europe, and at certain periods in Western Asia and Northern Africa. It includes major art movements and periods, national and regional art, genres, revivals, the artists' crafts, and the artists themselves.
First page of the statement of intent published as a preamble to all Rolls Series volumes, dated December 1857. The Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages (Latin: Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores), widely known as the Rolls Series, is a major collection of British and Irish historical materials and primary sources published as 99 works in 253 ...
In 1146, news reached King Owain Gwynedd that his favoured eldest son and heir (Edling), Rhun, died.Owain was overcome with grief, falling into a deep melancholy from which none could console him until news reached him that Mold castle in Tegeingl had fallen to Gwynedd, "[reminding Owain] that he had still a country for which to live", wrote historian Sir John Edward Lloyd.
Wenna St Wenna's Church, Morval, Cornwall Died c. 492 AD Talgarth Feast 18 October Patronage St Wenna's Church, Morval, Cornwall St Wenn Wenna was a medieval princess and Christian martyr who flourished in Wales and Cornwall. Later venerated as a saint, she is honoured at multiple churches in Cornwall and Devon. Life According to the 12th-century Life of Nectan, Wenna was one of the twelve ...
Gweith Gwen Ystrat (in English: The Battle of Gwen Ystrad), is a late Old Welsh or Middle Welsh heroic poem found uniquely in the Book of Taliesin, where it forms part of the Canu Taliesin, a series of poems attributed to the 6th-century court poet of Rheged, Taliesin.