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A Wander Around the Coast of Wales:

A Wander Around the Coast of Wales:

Steve Plant

Emeritus Professor Hywel Wyn Owen – The reader will notice that in the descriptions of my travels I have given an explanation or derivation of the place- names of places visited. This would have been impossible without the expertise of ...
The Oxford Companion to Family and Local History

The Oxford Companion to Family and Local History

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A major development in Wales is the recent foundation of the Place‐Name Research Centre at the University of Bangor, of which Hywel Wyn Owen is the Director. This houses a database of Welsh place‐name material, much of which was ...
The Place-names of Wales

The Place-names of Wales

Hywel Wyn Owen

A second edition of a handy and informative A-Z pocket guide to the derivation, meaning and significance of place names in Wales. First published in 1998.
Place-Names of Flintshire

Place-Names of Flintshire

Hywel Wyn Owen

This is the first scholarly study of place-names for the entire pre-1974 county of Flintshire, by two renowned experts in the field. It includes a glossary of name elements, and numerous indexes.
Dictionary of the Place-names of Wales

Dictionary of the Place-names of Wales

Hywel Wyn Owen

This scholarly and accessible dictionary, the first of its kind in Wales, deals with most of the place-names of Wales as well as prominent features of the landscape.
The miners of South Wales

The miners of South Wales

Eric Wyn Evans

... Quarter Session Records. Chief Constable's Report, 27 December 1847. 41 Report of the Commissioner appointed . . . to inquire into the . . . State of the Population in the Mining Districts (1847), pp. 9, 10, 14. "John Gwynne Herbert Owen ...
The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen

The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen

For most readers of English poetry, the face under the helmet is that of Wilfred Owen. EARLY YEARS Wilfred Edward Salter Owen was born in Oswestry on t8 March 1893. His parents were then living in a spacious and comfortable house ...
Michael Owen: My Story

Michael Owen: My Story

Michael Owen

Around this time, the first of a lifetime of mentions of the footballer Michael Owen got aired in the media. 'Meet the Michael Owen who wants to play for Wales' was theheadline in Wales on Sunday. As a Liverpool fan,Iknew all about Michael ...
Recollections of the Rev. Griffith Davies Owen, of ...

Recollections of the Rev. Griffith Davies Owen, of ...

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CHAPTER I. MR. OWEN'S EARLY HISTORY. THE REv. GRIFFITH DAVIES Owen was the second surviving son of the late Thomas and Benedicta Davies Owen, and born on Sunday the 24th day of January, 1790, at Llanrwst, in Denbighshire.
Archaeologia Cambrensis

Archaeologia Cambrensis

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Morys ap Howel ap Tudr. Morys Ddwyfoch. Morys ap Willi Lloyd, o F6n. Morys ap Evan Einion. Morys Berwyn. Mathew Owen o Sir Feirion. O. Owain o waed da. Owen ap LI" Moel o'r Pantri. Owen ap Jo" ap R: Prydydd y Moch. Owen Gwynedd.
The Poems of Wilfred Owen

The Poems of Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen

This volume contains all of Owen's best known work, only four of which were published in his lifetime.
Bleed on the Sky

Bleed on the Sky

David Haywood Young

He's made a deal with Viktor, but is Sheldon Anderson—the current CEO—aware that Owen's coming in? If so, does he like the idea? Whatever. Owen's not going to call Viktor up and ask the old man to hold his hand this morning. Owen heads ...
Seneca's Faith

Seneca's Faith

Abigail Owen

Praise for Abigail Owen “ANDROMEDA'S FALL is one book that you need to have mappedout time to read because it will not let you put it down...[Y]ou will be enthralled.” ~Fresh Fiction ~*~ “Abigail Owen's ability to spin a tale captivated me  ...
Murder, Magic, Madness: The Victorian Trials of Dove and the ...

Murder, Magic, Madness: The Victorian Trials of Dove and the ...

Davies Owen

3 For a thorough account of cunning-folk in this period see Owen Davies, Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History (London, 2003); Owen Davies, Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736–1951 (Manchester, 1999), pp. 214–29; Owen Davies, ...
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen

The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen

This definitive edition of Owen's poetry, based on a close study of the ms. sources in the British Museum and elsewhere, contains a selection of the poet's juvenilia and several other unpublished poems, as well as those which have appeared ...
The Ohio Journal of Science

The Ohio Journal of Science

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OWEN, Richard. 1804-1892. Owen, R. The Life of Richard Owen. 2 vols., Murray, London, 1894. — The letters and journals of the great English 19th Century anatomist and vertebrate paleontologist, celebrated for his deductions from ...
The Beatles and Wales

The Beatles and Wales

David Jones

ALUN OWEN Often incorrectly reported as hailing from Gwynedd, Alun Davies Owen was in fact born in Liverpool, 24 November 1925, of Welsh speaking parents. Educated at Cardigan County School, Owen worked briefly as a miner in South ...
Wales in British Politics, 1868-1922

Wales in British Politics, 1868-1922

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... vols., Oxford, 1902. ABRAHAM, William, 'William Abraham, 1843-1922' ( unpublished University of Wales M.A. thesis, 1945), by Eric Wyn Evans. ABRAHAM, William, Mabon, by Eric Wyn Evans, Cardiff, 1959. ARNOLD, 326 BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Basic problems of writing history

Basic problems of writing history

Arthur Marwick

Abraham, William, 'William Abraham, 1843-1922' (unpublished University of Wales M.A. thesis, 1945), by Eric Wyn Evans. Abraham, William, Mabon, by Eric Wyn Evans, Cardiff, 1959. Arnold, Matthew, Matthew Arnold: Poetry and Prose, ...
Czech and Central European Yearbook of Arbitration 2011: The ...

Czech and Central European Yearbook of Arbitration 2011: The ...

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If a bargained-for 13 Owen Fiss, supra note 3, at 10. 14 Owen Fiss, supra note 7, at 1280. 15 Owen Fiss, supra note 1, at 1085. 16 Ibid., 1086. 17 Owen Fiss, supra note 7, at 1277. 18 Ibid., 1275. 19 Ibid. 20 H. Lee Sarokin,Justice Rushed is ...
Oxford Books: Oxford literature, 1651-1680. 1931

Oxford Books: Oxford literature, 1651-1680. 1931

Falconer Madan

Dr. Owen's voluminous writing in tbis year and 1659 " par'ty accounted for by his having been relieved of the office of ... Owen, Mathew. Carol o gyngor, yn galennig ir Cymru. 1 658. [at end : — 1 ' Mathew Owen ai Cant ' Impr. 388 ([pr. by L. or ...
The New Encyclopaedia Britannica

The New Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Inc. town, 1854; city, 1957. Pop. (1994 est.) 20,132. Owen (Welsh name): see under Owain, except as below. Owen, Alun, in full alun davies owen (b. Nov. 24, 1925, Liverpool, Eng. — d. Dec. 6, 1994), Welsh dramatist for radio, television, ...
Steven Gerrard, Michael Owen and Me: Mike Yates Tells His Story

Steven Gerrard, Michael Owen and Me: Mike Yates Tells His Story

Keith Miller

Playing Alongside the Steven Gerrard and Michael Owen Combination It was a massive coup for Liverpool to sign Michael Owen for the Centre of Excellence and the best news about all of that for me was that I didn't lose my place! On the ...
History of Cass County, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to ...

History of Cass County, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to ...

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The present officers are: Elders — Owen Hurd, Eli Bech- dol and Henry Stough; deacons — William Stough, D. P. Hurd and C. F. Wendling; trustees — Owen Hurd, J. M. Long and Eli Kapp; Sunday-school superintendent — Owen Hurd.

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