6:00 pm-7:00 pm | 06/11/2024
Join Prof. Martin Johnes as he discusses his new book, ‘Welsh Not Elementary Education and the Anglicisation of Wales’. The Welsh Not was a wooden token given to children caught speaking Welsh in nineteenth-century schools. It was often accompanied by corporal punishment and is widely thought to have been responsible for the decline of the Welsh language. Despite having an iconic status in popular understandings of Wales’ history, there has never before been a study of where, when and why the Welsh Not was used.
Martin Johnes is Professor of Modern History at Swansea University, and one of Wales’s best-known historians. He is the author of a series of books on Welsh history, including ‘Wales: England’s Colony?’, which was adapted into a BBC television series.
This event will be held in person at Glamorgan Archives,
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Glamorgan Archives
Clos Parc Morgannwg,
Leckwith,
CF11 8AW