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The first three students of Ohio University enrolled in 1809 [35] and Ohio University graduated two students with bachelor's degrees in 1815. [36] All three legal charters placed Ohio University as the first institution of higher education founded and nourished by an act of Congress in America; the first in the territory northwest of the Ohio ...
He was educated at Porth County and Barry Grammar School, before studying history and literature at Balliol College, Oxford, and later undertook further studies at Columbia University, New York, and the University of Wales, Swansea. Between 1969 and 1993, he was a lecturer in history in the universities of Lancaster, Swansea, and Cardiff. [1]
The University of Wales (Welsh: Prifysgol Cymru) is a confederal university based in Cardiff, Wales.Founded by royal charter in 1893 as a federal university with three constituent colleges – Aberystwyth, Bangor and Cardiff – the university was the first university established in Wales, one of the four countries in the United Kingdom.
The earliest known item of human remains discovered in modern-day Wales is a Neanderthal jawbone, found at the Bontnewydd Palaeolithic site in the valley of the River Elwy in North Wales; it dates from about 230,000 years before present (BP) in the Lower Palaeolithic period, [1] and from then, there have been skeletal remains found of the Paleolithic Age man in multiple regions of Wales ...
Music history ; Jewish history; Christian history (1904–1905 Welsh revival) Economic history (slate • woollen industry) Education (history-specific) Health service ; Plaid Cymru; Geological history; Genetic history; Football team (1876–1976 • 1977–present) Rugby union (team since 2004 • with other teams) History of Cardiff City F.C.
The Gwent County History was a Welsh history project which created an encyclopaedic study of the historic county of Monmouthshire, known as Gwent between 1974 and 1996. The series was published by the University of Wales Press in five volumes between 2004 and 2013.
Ohio University (Ohio or OU) is a public research university with its main campus in Athens, Ohio, United States. [9] The university was first conceived in the 1787 contract between the Congress of the Confederation and the Ohio Company of Associates, which set aside the College Lands to support a university, and subsequently chartered by the territorial legislature in 1802 and the Ohio ...
The governments of the United Kingdom and of Wales almost invariably define Wales as a country. [36] [37] The Welsh Government says: "Wales is not a Principality. Although we are joined with England by land, and we are part of Great Britain, Wales is a country in its own right." [38] [n 1] Senedd building, Cardiff Bay