[:en]I have recently been sent an image of the World War One memorial to the war dead who had previously worked for the British Mannesmann Company, based in Landore, Swansea (with thanks to Bernard Lewis and Pam McKay). The works is long gone and so also, presumably, is this memorial. However, the family of Hubert…Continue Reading [:en]The Mannesmann Memorial, Swansea[:cy]Cofeb Mannesmann, Abertawe[:]
Year: 2018
[:en]A Welsh Memorial?[:cy]Cofeb Gymreig?[:]
[:en]I recently received from the Revd Jennie Hurd a picture of a memorial in a Welsh chapel, which at the time of the First World War was a Wesleyan chapel known as Cefnblodwel. It is rather typical of the kind of memorial found in Welsh rural chapels: a marble slab with details of two…Continue Reading [:en]A Welsh Memorial?[:cy]Cofeb Gymreig?[:]
[:en]Mapping Welsh Memorials to the Great War[:cy]Mapio Cofebau Cymreig i’r Rhyfel Mawr[:]
[:en]A new resource has been developed which illustrates some of the material gathered on the First World War memorials and rolls of honour in Wales. Funded by the Living Legacies 1914-18 Engagement Centre, the Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis at Queen’s University Belfast has worked with the information gathered by the ‘Welsh Memorials’ project,…Continue Reading [:en]Mapping Welsh Memorials to the Great War[:cy]Mapio Cofebau Cymreig i’r Rhyfel Mawr[:]
[:en]Images of WW1 memorials in Welsh chapels[:cy]Lluniau o gofebau i’r Rhyfel Mawr yng nghapeli Cymru[:]
[:en]Here are images of some of the First World War memorials in Welsh chapels referred to in the book chapter: Gethin Matthews, ‘Angels, Tanks and Minerva: Reading the memorials to the Great War in Welsh chapels’ in Martin Kerby, Margaret Baguley and Janet McDonald (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Artistic and Cultural Responses to war….Continue Reading [:en]Images of WW1 memorials in Welsh chapels[:cy]Lluniau o gofebau i’r Rhyfel Mawr yng nghapeli Cymru[:]
[:en]WW1 memorials in Morriston’s chapels[:cy]Cofebau i’r Rhyfel Mawr yng nghapeli Treforys[:]
[:en]As the ‘Welsh Memorials’ project has gathered information about WW1 memorials from all over Wales, it has become clear that different parts of Wales can have different patterns of memorialisation. One clear generalisation is that industrial Wales had a greater number and variety of WW1 memorials than rural Wales. Although there are plenty of interesting…Continue Reading [:en]WW1 memorials in Morriston’s chapels[:cy]Cofebau i’r Rhyfel Mawr yng nghapeli Treforys[:]