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Purple Plaques
The Purple Plaques () scheme in Wales, UK aims to install plaques on buildings to increase recognition of the lives of women who have had a significant and long-lasting impact associated with Wales. The scheme was initiated by several members of the National Assembly for Wales, led by Julie Morgan, Member of the Senedd for Cardiff North. The purple colour was chosen because of its association with the women's suffrage movement. The scheme was initially organised in partnership with the gender equality charity Chwarae Teg, (Fair Play) and subsequently became an independent charity. It was launched on 8 March 2017 (International Women's Day) with the aim of installing the first plaque on the Senedd building to commemorate Val Feld. The plaques are glazed purple ceramic with white lettering. Subsequently, one to three plaques have been installed each year. Criteria for a plaque include that the person must be a deceased woman with strong links to Wales, and that she must have ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wales
Wales ( ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the England–Wales border, east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic Sea to the south-west. , it had a population of 3.2 million. It has a total area of and over of Coastline of Wales, coastline. It is largely mountainous with its higher peaks in the north and central areas, including Snowdon (), its highest summit. The country lies within the Temperate climate, north temperate zone and has a changeable, Oceanic climate, maritime climate. Its capital and largest city is Cardiff. A distinct Culture of Wales, Welsh culture emerged among the Celtic Britons after the End of Roman rule in Britain, Roman withdrawal from Britain in the 5th century, and Wales was briefly united under Gruffudd ap Llywelyn in 1055. After over 200 years of war, the Conquest of Wales by Edward I, conquest of Wales by King Edward I o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ystradgynlais
Ystradgynlais (; ) is a town in southwest Powys, Wales. It is located on the River Tawe, and was within the boundaries of the former county of Brecknockshire. The town has a high proportion of Welsh language-speakers. The community includes Cwmtwrch, Abercraf and Cwmgiedd, with a population of 8,092 in the 2011 census; it is the second-largest town in Powys. It forms part of the Swansea Urban Area where the Ystradgynlais subdivision has a population of 10,248. History The place-name Ystradgynlais, meaning 'vale of the river Cynlais' – Cynlais may be a personal name, or derive from ''cyn'' ('chisel') and ''glais'' ('stream') – is first recorded in 1372. In the 1600s there were only a couple of houses by the church and a pub (now the rectory). In 1801 there were only 993 residents in the town living in only 196 houses. The first documented written evidence of iron working in the area was at Ynyscedwyn and is of a deed of release dated 1729. By 1750 there were seven furnac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jemima Nicholas
Jemima Nicholas (also spelt Niclas; 2 March 1755 – 16 July 1832), also known as Jemima Fawr, was a Welsh heroine during the 1797 Battle of Fishguard (commonly known as the last invasion of mainland Britain). Early life Jemima Nicholas was the daughter of Elinor and William Nicholas of Llanrhian, and was baptised on 2 March 1755 in Mathry. She was a cobbler, or a cobbler's wife. Battle of Fishguard In 1797, 1,400 French troops, many of them drawn from prisons, sailed from Camaret and landed at Llanwnda in Wales. According to folk legend, armed with a pitchfork, Nicholas led a group of women and rounded up 12 French soldiers who had been drinking, and held them captive inside a church overnight. The French surrendered shortly afterwards at the Royal Oak pub. She was awarded a lifetime pension for her efforts. A Jemima Nicholas was also involved with rioting in Fishguard in 1824, though she was not convicted of any crime. Legacy Nicholas died at the age of 82 on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Jane Hughes Griffiths
Annie Jane Hughes Griffiths (April 5, 1873 – October 7, 1942) was one of the ten children of Frances (née Humphreys) and Robert Joseph Davies, born in 1873. Members of the family, including her parents and several siblings, were well-connected and leading figures in both local political and religious life. They lived in Cwrt Mawr, a large Georgian mansion near Llangeitho village in Wales. She was sent to schools in Aberystwyth, London and Chester. She spent most of her life in either Aberystwyth or London. She was at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth for three years but did not undertake degree studies. She became a public figure due to association with the University College of Wales and the campaign for a Welsh National Library. She also worked to help young Welsh women in London as part of her membership of the Welsh chapel in Charing Cross, London. Griffiths was also involved in Welsh culture. She joined the Welsh Folksong Society (Cymdeithas Alawon Gwerin Cym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Davies (activist)
Rose Davies CBE (16 September 1882 – 13 December 1958) was a Welsh teacher, feminist, and labour activist, and an elected local official associated with the Independent Labour Party. Early life and education Florence Rose Rees was born in 1882, at Aberdare, one of the seven children of William Henry Rees and Fanny (Berry) Rees. Her father was a tinworker. Miss Rees became a teacher in local schools as a teenager, with only on-the-job training as an assistant and monitor.Neil Evans"(Florence) Rose Davies"''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press 2011): accessed 1 April 2016; doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/70090 Career As a teacher she became active with the Independent Labour Party and with the Women's Co-operative Guild. After marrying in 1908, she left the classroom and worked more intensely for political causes. In 1915 she became the first woman to chair the education committee of Aberdare. She helped to write education policy for Keir Hardie's campaign, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patti Flynn
Patti Flynn (born Patricia Maude Young, 1937 – 10 September 2020) was a Welsh jazz singer, author, model and social activist. She was a founder and patron of Black History Wales. In 2019 she was honoured with the Ethnic Minority Welsh Women Achievement Association's (EMWWAA) Lifetime Achievement Award. Early life Patti Flynn was born Patricia Maude Young, April 1937 in Sophia Street, Cardiff. She was the youngest child of six to Wilmott George Young and Beatrice Young (née Silver). Her father was merchant seaman from Jamaica arrived in Cardiff at the end of the First World War. Her mother was from Cardiff. Her father came to Cardiff during the 1920s and during the Second World War her father lost his life when his ship, the ''Ocean Vanguard'', was torpedoed off the coast of Trinidad in 1942. When she was one year old, the family moved to 40 Pomeroy Street and she later attended St. Mary's School in Clarence Road, Cardiff. The family also lived in North Church Street, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Hoggan
Frances Elizabeth Hoggan (''née'' Morgan; 20 December 1843 – 5 February 1927) was a Welsh doctor and in 1870 became the first woman from the UK to receive a doctorate in medicine from any university in Europe. She was a pioneering medical practitioner, researcher and social reformer – and the first female doctor to be registered in Wales. She and her husband opened the first husband-and-wife medical practice in Britain. She was honoured with Wales' 11th Purple Plaque in her birth-town of Brecon in March 2023. Early life and education Frances Hoggan was born in Brecon, Wales, where her father, Richard Morgan, was a curate. She was brought up and educated at Cowbridge in Glamorgan and later at Windsor. During her teens, she gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, who was brought up with her mother and passed off as Frances' sister. She went on to study at Paris and Düsseldorf. Upon the exclusion of women by the Council of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries from its pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thora Silverthorne
Thora Silverthorne (25 November 1910 – 17 January 1999), also known as "Red Silverthorne", was a Communist Party of Great Britain, British Communist, nurse and healthcare activist. She worked as a nanny for MP Somerville Hastings in her youth. She is most known for her service to the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, and for her roles in helping to found both Britain's National Health Service (NHS), and co-founding Britain's first union for rank and file nurses. Silverthorne was a life-long member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Early life Thora Silverthorne was born into a working-class mining family in Abertillery, Wales on 25 November 1910, to Sarah (née Boyt) and George Silverthorne, the fifth of eight children. Her father was an early recruit to the CPGB, an active member of the South Wales Mines Federation, and a coal hewer at the Six Bells Colliery. She grew up in Abertillery and went to Nantyglo Primary School before winning a scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flint Town Hall
Flint Town Hall () is a municipal structure in the Market Square, Flint, Flintshire, Wales. The town hall, which is the meeting place of Flint Town Council, is a Grade II listed building. History The first municipal building in Flint was a half timbered town hall which was completed in the early 16th century. After the old building became dilapidated, civic leaders decided to demolish it and to erect a new town hall, financed by public subscription, in its place. The new building was designed by John Welch in the Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival style, built in ashlar stone at a cost of £1,734 and was completed in February 1840. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto the Market Square; the central bay, which was projected forward, originally featured an arched doorway on the ground floor; there was a Venetian window with a balcony and a wrought-iron balustrade on the first floor, and an archway, a stepped gable and a stone finia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eirene White, Baroness White
Eirene Lloyd White, Baroness White (née Jones; 7 November 1909 – 23 December 1999) was a British Labour politician and journalist. Early life White was born in Belfast, the daughter of Dr Thomas Jones, commonly known as "TJ", a noted civil servant, educationalist and friend of the establishment. She was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, London, and Somerville College, Oxford, where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She spent a year in Heidelberg before working for the New York Public Library. Back in England, she studied housing policies and the problems of the homeless. Career During World War II, White joined the Women's Voluntary Service and became Welsh Regional Secretary. She was recruited by the Ministry of Labour to help with the training of workers in Wales, particularly women, for the war effort. She also worked as a civil servant at the Board of Education until 1945 and after the War as a political correspondent for both the ''Manchester Evening ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borth
Borth () is a village, seaside resort and community in Ceredigion, Mid Wales; it is located 7 miles (11 km) north of Aberystwyth, on the Ceredigion Coast Path. The community includes the settlement of Ynyslas and the population was 1,399 in 2011. From being largely Welsh-speaking, the village has become anglicised; over 54 per cent of its residents were born in England. According to both the 1991 and 2001 censuses, 43 per cent of the residents of Borth were primarily Welsh-speakers. Features and history Borth's sandy beach has helped to promote it as a seaside resort. There is a youth hostel in the village, and caravan and camping sites nearby. There is an ancient submerged forest visible at low tide along the beach, where stumps of oak, pine, birch, willow and hazel (preserved by the acid anaerobic conditions in the peat) can be seen. Radiocarbon dating suggests the trees date from about 1500 BCE. This submerged forest also ties in with the legend of Cantre'r Gwae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinah Williams
Dinah Williams born Dinah Eiluned Lyon Jones (23 July 1911 – 3 September 2009) was a British organic farmer. She was an early member of the Soil Association and she owned the first Welsh dairy farm to be recognised as organic. Life Williams was born in "Crugiau" near Aberystwyth in 1911. She was the middle child of three. Her parents named her Dinah Eiluned Lyon Jones. Her father, Abel Edwin Jones, would become a Professor of agriculture at the University College of Wales. Her Scottish mother, Bessie Brown MBE, was the first instructor of dairy farming at the university. Her father died when she was twelve and the same year she won a milking competition in London. Her mother bought Guernsey cows as well and her mother surprised her peers when she used seaweed as a fertiliser. She and her mother became committed farmers struggling though the 1920s. Their dairy farm was in the Clarach valley near Cardigan and they looked after Guernsey and Ayshire cows. The "Nantllan" farm delive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
