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History of Welsh A collaborative timeline By Nathan, Joshua, Brynmor, Madison, Jonathon, Danial, Darwesh, Ashleigh (and Leia)

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Page 1: Welsh history

History of Welsh

A collaborative timelineBy Nathan, Joshua, Brynmor, Madison, Jonathon, Danial,

Darwesh, Ashleigh (and Leia)

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Google Presentations - Features

• Similar to PowerPoint

• Multiple people can edit at once

• Chat

• Comments

• Built in Image Search (CC) and YouTube vids

• Research and Define tools

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Summarising and Presenting

• Own words

• Short phrases of key points

• 4-7 bullets per slide

• Sub-bullets where appropriate

• Images where appropriate (CC)

• Sourceso Varietyo List

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What to include?

• Yr Wladfa (Argentina colony)

• History of Welsho Origin

• How old is Welsh?

• Where Welsh people come from?

• Why it's called Welsh?

• What countries speak Welsh

• % of Welsh speakers

• Why is the dragon the symbol of the Welsh flag?

• Why Welsh people aren't interested in speaking Welsh?

Leia Fee
What are the key steps in Welsh history - any ideas?
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History of Welsh

A collaborative timeline

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Origins - before 9th Century 800AD)

• Welsh (Cymraeg) is the oldest language in Britain, dating back about 4,000 years.

• Evolved from a language now called Indo-European.

• Related to Celtic, Cornish and Breton.

• It probably arrived in Britain during the Bronze Age or Iron Age.

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Old Welsh 9-11th C (800-1000)

• From about 800 AD until the early 12th century.

• Then it developed into Middle Welsh.

• The oldest surviving text is that on a gravestone now in Tywyn church, from the early 8th century.

• The basic Latin alphabet was used to represent the phonology.

• The Poetry of Aneirin and the Poetry, or Book, of Taliesin were in this era.

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Middle Welsh 11-14th C (1000-1300)

• Gruffydd ap Llywelyn became the ruler of Wales after defeating Ralph the Timid.

• A revolt began in South Wales by Hywel ap Mahgredudd, he marched to the Gower, defeating the Norman and English colonists there at the Battle of Llwchwr.

• The Treaty of Gwerneigron is signed by Dafydd ap Llywelyn and Henry III

• Richard of Pudlicott stole King Edward I's Wardrobe treasury which included the Crown Jewels at Westminster Abbey

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Modern Welsh 15-18th C (1400-1700)

• 1451 - Carmarthen Eisteddfod (arguably the first)

• 1535 & 1542 - Acts of Uniono English only language in court.o Those who used Welsh banned from

public office in Wales o (Only officially repealed in 1993!)

• 1588 - William Morgan's Bible translation

• 1731 - Griffiths Jones Welsh language 'moving schools'

• 1789 - First Eisteddfod where public as well as poets and nobles allowed!

• 1792 - Iolo Morgans "revived" (made up!) a lot of the key Eisteddfod traditions

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19th Century (1800s)

• In the 19th century, South Wales became heavily industrialised with ironworks.

• Coal mining to the Cynon and Rhondda valleys from the 1840s, led to an increase in population.

Leia Fee
Era of Welsh Not and "Treachery of the Bluye Books" - should include
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19th Century (1800s)

• Socialism developed in South Wales in the latter part of the century, accompanied by the government getting involved religious Nonconformism.

• The first Labour MP, Kier Hardie, was elected as junior member for the Welsh constituency of Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare in 1900's.

• The social effects of industrialisation resulted in armed uprisings against the mainly English owners.

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19th Century (1800s)

• The Welsh Not or Welsh Note was a punishment system used in some Welsh schools to dissuade children from speaking Welsh.

• It was represented as a piece of wood, inscribed with the letters "WN", that was hung around the necks of children who spoke Welsh during the school day.

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19th Century (1800s)

• The Treachery of the Blue Books or Treason of the Blue Books (Welsh: Brad y Llyfrau Gleision) was the name given in Wales to the Reports of the commissioners of enquiry into the state of education in Wales published in 1847.

• The term Brad y Llyfrau Gleision was coined by the author Robert Jones Derfel in response to the Reports' publication.

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20th & 21st Century

• According to the 1911 census, out of a population of just under 2.5 million, 43.5% of the total population of Wales spoke Welsh as a primary language

• In the 2011 Census 19% of Welsh residents aged three and over reported being able to speak Welsh.

• S4C was launched on 2 November 1982

• The Welsh Language Act 1993 put the Welsh language on an equal footing with the English language.

• The Welsh Language Society was formed on the 4th August 1962.

• Since 1999, the teaching of Welsh is now compulsory in all schools in Wales up to age 16.

• The European Union has 24 official and working languages. Welsh is not one of them!

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Some Views from the group...

• "I learned it as an adult because I was working at Oystermouth castle and didn't like having to tell tourists who asked that no I didn't speak it!"

• "Welsh Language Act has probably doubled the printed stationery costs of official documents in Wales."

• "Everyone should speak their mother language"

• "Everyone should learn another language"

• "Went to a Welsh school, not used it since"

• "It'd be okay to know some Welsh."

• "I would like to learn Welsh again"

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Sources• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

History_of_the_Welsh_language#Late_Modern_Welsh

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisteddfod#History

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iolo_Morganwg

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_in_Wales_Acts_1535%E2%80%931542#The_Acts_and_the_Welsh_language

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wales#Conquest:_from_the_Statute_of_Rhuddlan_to_the_Laws_in_Wales_Acts_1283_-_1542

• https://docs.google.com/a/student.swansea-itec.co.uk/presentation/d/1iHToFD-PDVJN78fxD77YgygW_05aOPgxsHI85n5fGHw/edit#slide=id.gf30b84a8_210

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Welsh

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymdeithas_yr_Iaith_Gymraeg

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Welsh_language#21st_century

• http://ec.europa.eu/languages/languages-of-europe/eu-languages_en.htm

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_century_in_Wales

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century_in_Wales

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century_in_Wales

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century_in_Wales

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Skills Used

• Presentation

• Google Drive (Cloud technology)

• Groupwork

• Research

• Listing sources

• Summarising

• Reading for specific information

• Skimming and scanning texts

• Formatting