Welsh Not
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...
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University of Wales Press
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| author | Johnes, Martin |
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| description | 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’s history, there has never before been a study of where, when and why the Welsh Not was used. This book is an account of the different ways children were punished for speaking Welsh in nineteenth-century schools and the consequences of this for children, communities and the linguistic future of Wales. It shows how the exclusion of Welsh was not only traumatic for pupils but also hindered them in learning English – the very opposite of what it was meant to achieve. Gradually, Welsh came to be used increasingly in Victorian schools, making them more humane places but also more effective mechanisms in the anglicisation of Wales. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1519102025-07-21T15:44:40Z Welsh Not Johnes, Martin Social and cultural history Wales Nineteenth Century thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MN 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CB Language: reference and general::CBX Language: history and general works thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MN 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CB Language: reference and general::CBX Language: history and general works 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’s history, there has never before been a study of where, when and why the Welsh Not was used. This book is an account of the different ways children were punished for speaking Welsh in nineteenth-century schools and the consequences of this for children, communities and the linguistic future of Wales. It shows how the exclusion of Welsh was not only traumatic for pupils but also hindered them in learning English – the very opposite of what it was meant to achieve. Gradually, Welsh came to be used increasingly in Victorian schools, making them more humane places but also more effective mechanisms in the anglicisation of Wales. 2025-02-16T23:00:59Z 2025-02-16T23:00:59Z 2025-02-06T11:16:14Z 2024 book ONIX_20250206_9781837721801_4 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98229 9781837721801 9781837721818 9781837721825 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/151910 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98229/1/9781837721818_WEB.pdf University of Wales Press 10.16922/welshnot 10.16922/welshnot 0a623d1c-0963-4c53-880e-4ddd1a3612d7 70763f35-0a30-4ca7-82da-4db3fff9371c 879c6b5c-d19a-446c-b735-52b7af730b11 df9f651c-412a-4a71-a6cb-fd8d32c3c0cb 9781837721801 9781837721818 9781837721825 440 Cardiff [...] [...] Swansea University 斯旺西大学 10.13039/501100001317 open access |
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| title | Welsh Not |
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