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Boudica or Boudicca (/ ˈ b uː d ɪ k ə, b oʊ ˈ d ɪ k ə /, from Brythonic *boudi 'victory, win' + *-kā 'having' suffix, i.e. 'Victorious Woman', known in Latin chronicles as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh as Buddug, pronounced [ˈbɨðɨɡ]) was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, who led a failed uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61.
The Boudican revolt was an armed uprising by native Celtic Britons against the Roman Empire during the Roman conquest of Britain.It took place circa AD 60–61 in the Roman province of Britain, and it was led by Boudica, the Queen of the Iceni tribe.
4 January – Jenny Randerson, Baroness Randerson, 76, Welsh politician and peer, acting Deputy First Minister of Wales (2001–2002) and member of the House of Lords (since 2011). [27] 6 January – Meirion Roberts, 90, Welsh rugby union player (Cardiff, national team). [28] 8 January – Geraint H. Jenkins, 78, historian [29] (death reported ...
Other important holidays were the feasts of St Patrick (Gwyl Badric) on 17 March; St. Quiricus (Gwyl Giric) on 16 June; the Beheading of John the Baptist (called in Welsh Gwyl Ieuan y Moch – St. John of the Swine – as it was the day the pigs were turned out into the woods to forage through the winter [2]) on 29 August; St Michael (Gwyl ...
The Mari Lwyd. The Mari Lwyd (Welsh: Y Fari Lwyd, [1] [ə ˈvaːri ˈlʊi̯d] ⓘ) is a wassailing folk custom founded in South Wales and elsewhere. The tradition entails the use of an eponymous hobby horse which is made from a horse's skull mounted on a pole and carried by an individual hidden under a sheet.
Christmas is an uncommon English-language surname.The origin is uncertain; some genealogy books state that it was given to people born near Christmas, while this is disputed by researchers, and DNA tests performed on men with the surname show that the majority of those descend from a common ancestor.
Christmas Evans (25 December 1766 – 19 July 1838) was a Welsh nonconformist minister, who, according to D. M. Lloyd-Jones, was "the greatest preacher that the Baptists have ever had in Great Britain."
Mr. Fezziwig is portrayed as a jovial, anachronistic man with a large Welsh Wig. [1] In Stave 2 of A Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge to revisit his youthful days in Fezziwig's world located at the cusp of the Industrial Revolution. Dickens uses Fezziwig to represent communal values and a way of life quickly swept away ...