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Welsh studies is an interdisciplinary field of research devoted to the study of Wales, History of Wales, Geography of Wales, Politics of Wales, Economy of Wales, Culture of Wales, Welsh language, Welsh-language literature, Welsh literature in English, and of Welsh people in Wales and elsewhere.
The Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS; Welsh: Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd) is a research institute located in Aberystwyth, Wales.The centre was established by the University of Wales in 1985, and works under the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
The University of Wales Press (Welsh: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru) was founded in 1922 as a central service of the University of Wales. [2] The press publishes academic journals and around seventy books a year in the English and Welsh languages on six general subjects: history, political philosophy and religious studies, Welsh and Celtic studies, literary studies, European studies and medieval studies.
The Centre for Welsh Studies is a pro-Brexit Welsh think-tank, which advocates "a positive vision for Wales outside the European Union". [1] The group is based in Cardiff . [ 2 ]
Since 1998, he has been senior research fellow or reader at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, where he has supervised a research project called Celtic Languages and Cultural Identity, [2] the output of which includes the five-volume Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia (2006), and An Atlas for Celtic ...
The Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol (meaning: Welsh National College), known in both Welsh and English simply as Coleg, [1] was established in 2011 by the Welsh Government to work with universities in Wales to develop Welsh-language courses and resources for students; it also provides and advances Welsh medium courses, scholarship and research in Welsh universities.
Supporters of the Welsh-medium schools were generally middle class [62] and the movement was sometimes perceived as "social elitism and the promotion of an unhealthy nationalism". [63] Welsh was included in the curriculum introduced after the 1988 Education Reform Act; it became compulsory for pupils up to the age of 14 in 1990 and 16 in 1999. [64]
They imposed an English legal system, and the Welsh were not allowed to hold office in the government or church. Owain Glyndŵr's rebellion in the early 15th century was the last armed rebellion of the Welsh against the English. Anti-Welsh riots were reported in Oxford and London, and Parliament imposed more repressive measures on Wales. [1]