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==Incumbents==
==Incumbents==
*[[Secretary of State for Wales]] – [[John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon|John Morris]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Morris of Aberavon, Baron, (John Morris) (born Nov. 1931)|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-28179|access-date=2021-05-05|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|year=2007|language=en|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u28179|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}</ref>
*[[Prince of Wales]] – [[Charles, Prince of Wales|Charles]]
*[[Archbishop of Wales]] – [[Gwilym Williams]], [[Bishop of Bangor]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2018/8-june/books-arts/book-reviews/welsh-golden-age-that-never-came|title=Archbishop Gwilym Owen Williams — "G. O.": His life and opinions by D. T. W. Price |author=David Wilbourne|date=8 June 2018|website=Church Times|access-date=6 May 2022}}</ref>
*[[Princess of Wales]] – ''vacant''
*[[Archdruid]] of the [[National Eisteddfod of Wales]] – [[Richard Bryn Williams|Bryn]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Dillwyn Miles|title=The Secret of the Bards of the Isle of Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DJZiAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Gwasg Dinefwr Press|isbn=978-0-9519926-0-9|page=193}}</ref>
*[[Secretary of State for Wales]] – [[John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon|John Morris]]
*[[Archbishop of Wales]] – [[Gwilym Williams]], [[Bishop of Bangor]]
*[[Archdruid]] of the [[National Eisteddfod of Wales]] – [[R. Bryn Williams]]


==Events==
==Events==
*[[9 February]] - [[Charles, Prince of Wales|The Prince of Wales]] becomes commander of {{HMS|Bronington}}.<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Brown|title=Historic Ships: The Survivors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y06oAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT155|date=15 March 2010|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited|isbn=978-1-4456-2006-0|pages=155}}</ref>
*[[9 February]] - The Prince of Wales (now [[Charles III]]) becomes commander of {{HMS|Bronington}}.<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Brown|title=Historic Ships: The Survivors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y06oAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT155|date=15 March 2010|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited|isbn=978-1-4456-2006-0|pages=155}}</ref>
*[[17 February]] - [[Operation Julie]] is launched; it eventually results in the break-up of one of the largest LSD manufacturing operations in the world.
*[[17 February]] - [[Operation Julie]] is launched; it eventually results in the break-up of one of the largest LSD manufacturing operations in the world.<ref>{{cite book|author=Andy Roberts|title=Albion Dreaming: A popular history of LSD in Britain (Revised Edition with a new foreword by Dr. Sue Blackmore)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2caIAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA218|date=30 September 2008|publisher=Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd|isbn=978-981-4328-97-5|pages=218}}</ref>
*March - The Welsh Regional Office of the [[European Community]] opens in [[Cardiff]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Charlotte Aull Davies|title=Welsh Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: The Ethnic Option and the Modern State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tHlnAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Praeger|isbn=978-0-275-93116-2}}</ref>
*March - The Welsh Regional Office of the [[European Community]] opens in [[Cardiff]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Charlotte Aull Davies|title=Welsh Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: The Ethnic Option and the Modern State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tHlnAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Praeger|isbn=978-0-275-93116-2}}</ref>
*June–September - [[1976 United Kingdom heat wave]]: A very hot summer brings a major drought with water shortages.
*June–September - [[1976 United Kingdom heat wave]]: A very hot summer brings a major drought with water shortages.
*July - Miners’ leader [[Dai Francis (trade union leader)|Dai Francis]] challenges [[Charles, Prince of Wales]], in the election for Chancellor of the [[University of Wales]].
*July - Miners’ leader [[Dai Francis (trade union leader)|Dai Francis]] challenges the Prince of Wales (now [[Charles III]]), in the election for Chancellor of the [[University of Wales]].
*[[25 July]] - Former Submarine Commander [[Neil Rutherford]], DSC & Bar, murders four people at the Red Gables Hotel in [[Penmaenmawr]].<ref>''[[North Wales Weekly News]]'', 30 September 1976.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/eerie-look-inside-scene-one-9488907|title=Inside the hotel where five people died in one of Wales' worst ever mass murders|website=WalesOnline|date=22 June 2015|author=Nathan Bevan|access-date=31 December 2018}}</ref>
*[[25 July]] - Former Submarine Commander [[Neil Rutherford]], DSC & Bar, murders four people at the Red Gables Hotel in [[Penmaenmawr]].<ref>''[[North Wales Weekly News]]'', 30 September 1976.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/eerie-look-inside-scene-one-9488907|title=Inside the hotel where five people died in one of Wales' worst ever mass murders|website=WalesOnline|date=22 June 2015|author=Nathan Bevan|access-date=31 December 2018}}</ref>
*[[4 October]] - The [[InterCity 125]] high speed train runs for the first time between [[Swansea railway station]] and [[London Paddington railway station|London Paddington]].
*[[4 October]] - The [[InterCity 125]] high speed train runs for the first time between [[Swansea railway station]] and [[London Paddington railway station|London Paddington]].
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*[[May 27]] - Actor [[Stanley Baker]] is given a [[knighthood]] in the [[1976 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours|Prime Minister's Resignation Honours]], a few months before his death.<ref>[http://www.freewebs.com/stanleybakerarchive/apps/photos/photo?photoid=108100123 Ellen Baker, 'My Husband, My Love', ''Woman's Own Magazine'', December 1976] accessed 26 May 2012</ref>
*[[May 27]] - Actor [[Stanley Baker]] is given a [[knighthood]] in the [[1976 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours|Prime Minister's Resignation Honours]], a few months before his death.<ref>[http://www.freewebs.com/stanleybakerarchive/apps/photos/photo?photoid=108100123 Ellen Baker, 'My Husband, My Love', ''Woman's Own Magazine'', December 1976] accessed 26 May 2012</ref>
*August - [[Dic Jones]] loses the National Eisteddfod chair on a technicality.
*August - [[Dic Jones]] loses the National Eisteddfod chair on a technicality.
*October - [[Mistar Urdd]] is created by [[Wynne Melville Jones]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Wynne Melville Jones|title=Wyn Mel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REv2CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT64|date=14 August 2014|publisher=Y Lolfa|isbn=978-1-78461-029-6|pages=64|language=cy}}</ref>
*[[Griff Rhys Jones]] becomes Vice-President of the [[Footlights|Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club]].
*''unknown date'' - [[Griff Rhys Jones]] becomes Vice-President of the [[Footlights|Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club]].<ref>{{cite book|author=M. J. Simpson|title=Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K-E2cAzsxwUC&pg=PA75|date=29 April 2005|publisher=Justin, Charles & Co.|isbn=978-1-932112-35-1|pages=75}}</ref>
*[[Mistar Urdd]] is created by Wynne Melville Jones.


===Awards===
===Awards===
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*[[Ruth Bidgood]] - ''Not Without Homage''
*[[Ruth Bidgood]] - ''Not Without Homage''
*[[Glyn Davies (economist)|Glyn Davies]] - ''Overseas Investment In Wales''
*[[Glyn Davies (economist)|Glyn Davies]] - ''Overseas Investment In Wales''
*[[Kenneth O. Morgan|Kenneth Morgan]] - ''[[Keir Hardie]]''
*[[Kenneth O. Morgan]] - ''[[Keir Hardie]]''
*[[Bernice Rubens]] - ''I Sent a Letter to My Love''
*[[Bernice Rubens]] - ''I Sent a Letter to My Love''


====Welsh language====
====Welsh language====
*[[John Emyr]] - ''Enaid Clwyfus''<ref>{{cite book|title=National Union Catalog|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1OM8AQAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Rowman and Littlefield|page=467}}</ref>
*[[John Emyr]] - ''Enaid Clwyfus''
*[[Alan Llwyd]] - ''Edrych Trwy Wydrau Lledrith''
*[[Alun Llywelyn-Williams]] - ''Gwanwyn yn y Ddinas''
*[[Alun Llywelyn-Williams]] - ''Gwanwyn yn y Ddinas''
*[[Owain Owain]] - ''Y Dydd Olaf''
*[[Owain Owain]] - ''Y Dydd Olaf''
*[[Marged Prichard]] - ''Gwylanod ar y Mynydd''


===Poetry===
===Poetry===
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*[[Daniel Jones (composer)|Daniel Jones]] - ''Dance Fantasy''
*[[Daniel Jones (composer)|Daniel Jones]] - ''Dance Fantasy''
*[[Man (band)|Man]] - ''[[The Welsh Connection]]''
*[[Man (band)|Man]] - ''[[The Welsh Connection]]''
*[[Bonnie Tyler]] - ''[[Lost in France]]'' (debut single)
*[[Bonnie Tyler]] - "[[Lost in France]]" (debut single)


==Film==
==Film==
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===Welsh-language television===
===Welsh-language television===
*''Seren Wib'', presented by Emyr Glasnant and Sharon Morgan<ref>{{cite book|author=Sharon Morgan|title=Hanes Rhyw Gymraes.|publisher=Y Lolfa|language=cy|year=2012}}</ref>
*


===Welsh language radio===
===Welsh language radio===
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===English-language television===
===English-language television===
*''How Green Was My Father: a Welsh Odyssey for 1976'', with [[Ryan Davies]] and [[Max Boyce]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00jfhsz|title=How Green was my Father|access-date=17 September 2023|website=BBC|date=27 July 2011 }}</ref>
*''How Green Was My Father'', with [[Ryan Davies]]


==Sport==
==Sport==
*[[Association football|Football]] – The [[Wales national football team]] plays in the quarter-finals of [[UEFA Euro 1976]].
*[[Association football|Football]] – The [[Wales national football team]] plays in the quarter-finals of [[UEFA Euro 1976]].
*[[BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year]] – [[Mervyn Davies (rugby union)|Mervyn Davies]] and the [[Wales national rugby union team]].<ref>{{cite news |title=BBC Wales Sport Personality winners |work=BBC Sport |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/wales/20670643 |access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref>
*[[Rugby union]] – [[Wales national rugby union team|Wales]] win their seventh [[Grand Slam (rugby union)|Grand Slam]].
*[[Rugby union]] – [[Wales national rugby union team|Wales]] win their seventh [[Grand Slam (rugby union)|Grand Slam]].
*[[Snooker]]
*[[Snooker]]
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*[[13 May]] - [[Mark Delaney (footballer)|Mark Delaney]], footballer
*[[13 May]] - [[Mark Delaney (footballer)|Mark Delaney]], footballer
*[[16 June]] - [[Cian Ciaran]], musician
*[[16 June]] - [[Cian Ciaran]], musician
*[[25 June]] - [[Iestyn Harris]], rugby player<ref>{{cite web|title=Iestyn Harris: Rallying his motley crew under the banner of Welsh pride|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/iestyn-harris-rallying-his-motley-crew-under-the-banner-of-welsh-pride-2209714.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/iestyn-harris-rallying-his-motley-crew-under-the-banner-of-welsh-pride-2209714.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|website=The Independent|access-date=18 July 2017|date=10 February 2011}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*[[25 June]] - [[Iestyn Harris]], rugby player
*[[14 July]] - [[Geraint Jones]], cricketer
*[[14 July]] - [[Geraint Jones]], cricketer
*[[9 August]] - [[Aled Haydn-Jones]], radio producer
*[[9 August]] - [[Aled Haydn-Jones]], radio producer
*[[1 November]] - [[Elizabeth Williams (Rhondda politician)|Buffy Williams]], politician
*[[7 November]] - [[Andrew Davies (cricketer, born 1976)|Andrew Davies]], cricketer
*[[7 November]] - [[Andrew Davies (cricketer, born 1976)|Andrew Davies]], cricketer
*[[20 December]] – [[Adam Powell (game designer)|Adam Powell]], inventor
*[[20 December]] – [[Adam Powell (game designer)|Adam Powell]], inventor
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==Deaths==
==Deaths==
*[[3 January]] - [[Mal Evans]], Beatles' former roadie and patron of [[Badfinger]], 40
*[[3 January]] [[Mal Evans]], Beatles' former roadie and patron of [[Badfinger]], 40 (shot)<ref>{{cite book|author=Geoffery Giuliano|title=Lennon in America: 1971-1980, Based in Part on the Lost Lennon Diaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IhRtB87K_dIC&pg=PA238|date=2 July 2001|publisher=Cooper Square Press|isbn=978-1-4616-3561-1|pages=238}}</ref>
*[[23 January]] - Sir [[Tudor Thomas]], ophthalmic surgeon, 82<ref>{{cite book |last=Davies |first=John |author2=Jenkins, Nigel |title=The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales |year=2008 |publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff |isbn=978-0-7083-1953-6}}</ref>
*[[23 January]] Sir [[Tudor Thomas]], ophthalmic surgeon, 82<ref>{{cite book |last=Davies |first=John |author2=Jenkins, Nigel |title=The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales |year=2008 |publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff |isbn=978-0-7083-1953-6}}</ref>
*[[4 February]] - [[Roger Livesey]], actor, 69<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/02/07/archives/roger-livesey-character-actor-on-stage-and-screen-is-dead.html|title=Roger Livesey, Character Actor On Stage and Screen, Is Dead|date=February 7, 1976|website=New York Times|access-date=30 April 2019}}</ref>
*[[26 January]] – [[Eric Francis (architect)|Eric Francis]], architect, 88<ref>{{archINFORM|arch|14317|Eric Carwardine Francis|2012-04-24}}</ref>
*[[4 February]] [[Roger Livesey]], actor, 69<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/02/07/archives/roger-livesey-character-actor-on-stage-and-screen-is-dead.html|title=Roger Livesey, Character Actor On Stage and Screen, Is Dead|date=February 7, 1976|website=New York Times|access-date=30 April 2019}}</ref>
*[[12 February]] - [[John Lewis (philosopher)|John Lewis]], Marxist philosopher, 87<ref>{{cite book|author=Rajani Palme Dutt|title=The Labour Monthly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bsFZAAAAYAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Labour Publishing Company|page=118}}</ref>
*[[12 February]] [[John Lewis (philosopher)|John Lewis]], Marxist philosopher, 87<ref>{{cite book|author=Rajani Palme Dutt|title=The Labour Monthly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bsFZAAAAYAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Labour Publishing Company|page=118}}</ref>
*[[14 February]] - [[Tommy Scourfield]], dual code rugby player, 66
*[[14 February]] - [[Tommy Scourfield]], dual code rugby player, 66
*[[29 March]] - [[Harold Davies (rugby player)|Harold Davie]], rugby player, 77<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Jackson|title=Lions of Wales: A Celebration of Welsh Rugby Legends|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JqQeMae6VroC|year=1998|publisher=Mainstream|isbn=978-1-84018-026-8|page=210}}</ref>
*[[26 March]] - [[Duster Bennett]], blues musician, 29 (car accident)
*[[26 March]] - [[Duster Bennett]], blues musician, 29 (car accident)<ref>{{cite book|author=Nick Talevski|title=The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=beMTAQAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Omnibus|isbn=978-0-7119-7548-4|page=24}}</ref>
*[[30 March]] - [[Jackie Mittell]], footballer, 70
*[[30 March]] - [[Jackie Mittell]], footballer, 70
*[[31 March]] - [[Billy Moore (rugby)|Billy Moore]], rugby player, 66
*[[31 March]] - [[Billy Moore (rugby, born 1910)|Billy Moore]], rugby player, 66
*[[18 April]] – [[Haydn Davies (politician)|Haydn Davies]], politician, 70<ref>{{cite book|title=Who was who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HT4OAQAAMAAJ|year=1971|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0-312-87746-0|page=199}}</ref>
*[[28 April]] – [[Richard Hughes (writer)|Richard Hughes]], novelist, 76
*[[28 April]] – [[Richard Hughes (writer)|Richard Hughes]], novelist, 76<ref>{{cite book|title=Twentieth-century Children's Writers|publisher=Macmillan Education UK|year=1978|isbn=9781349036486|page=624}}</ref>
*[[6 June]] - [[David Jacobs (Welsh athlete)|David Jacobs]], athlete, 88
*[[6 June]] [[David Jacobs (Welsh athlete)|David Jacobs]], athlete, 88
*[[20 June]] - Sir [[Goronwy Edwards]], historian, 84 <ref>{{cite book|title=The Antiquaries Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5wEpAAAAYAAJ|year=1978|publisher=H. Milford, Oxford University Press|page=449}}</ref>
*[[28 June]] - Sir [[Stanley Baker]], actor, 48<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Shail|title=Stanley Baker: A Life in Film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uZUrAQAAIAAJ|year=2008|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-2126-3|page=127}}</ref>
*[[20 June]] Sir [[Goronwy Edwards]], historian, 84 <ref>{{cite book|title=The Antiquaries Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5wEpAAAAYAAJ|year=1978|publisher=H. Milford, Oxford University Press|page=449}}</ref>
*[[28 June]] – Sir [[Stanley Baker]], actor, 48<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Shail|title=Stanley Baker: A Life in Film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uZUrAQAAIAAJ|year=2008|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-2126-3|page=127}}</ref>
*[[18 July]] - [[Jenkin Alban Davies]], Wales international rugby captain, 90
*[[18 July]] [[Jenkin Alban Davies]], Wales international rugby captain, 90
*[[22 July]] – [[Willie Evans (footballer, born 1912)|Willie Evans]], Welsh international footballer, 63
*[[30 August]] - [[David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore]], politician, 72
*[[30 August]] - [[David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore]], politician, 72
*[[10 October]] - [[David Lewis, 1st Baron Brecon]], politician, 71
*[[10 October]] - [[David Lewis, 1st Baron Brecon]], politician, 71
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*[[22 November]] - [[Rupert Davies]], actor, 60 (cancer)<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of World Biography: Supplement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AIAUAQAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Gale Research|isbn=978-0-7876-2945-8|page=117}}</ref>
*[[22 November]] - [[Rupert Davies]], actor, 60 (cancer)<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of World Biography: Supplement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AIAUAQAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Gale Research|isbn=978-0-7876-2945-8|page=117}}</ref>
*[[24 November]] - [[Ambrose Baker]], rugby player, ?79
*[[24 November]] - [[Ambrose Baker]], rugby player, ?79
*''date unknown'' - [[Meirion Williams]], songwriter
*''date unknown''
**[[Eveline Annie Jenkins]], botanical artist, 82/83
**[[Meirion Williams]], songwriter


==See also==
==See also==
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[[Category:1976 by country|Wales]]
[[Category:1976 by country|Wales]]
[[Category:1976 in the United Kingdom| Wales]]
[[Category:1976 in the United Kingdom| Wales]]
[[Category:1976 in Europe]]
[[Category:1970s in Wales]]

Latest revision as of 16:07, 25 September 2024

1976
in
Wales
Centuries:
Decades:
See also:List of years in Wales
Timeline of Welsh history
1976 in
The United Kingdom
Scotland
Elsewhere

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1976 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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Events

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Arts and literature

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Awards

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New books

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English language

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Welsh language

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Poetry

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New drama

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Music

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Film

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Welsh-language films

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Broadcasting

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  • Sir Huw Wheldon is knighted for his services to broadcasting.

Welsh-language television

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  • Seren Wib, presented by Emyr Glasnant and Sharon Morgan[15]

Welsh language radio

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  • Tros Fy Sbectol

English-language television

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Sport

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Births

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Deaths

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Morris of Aberavon, Baron, (John Morris) (born Nov. 1931)". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u28179. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  2. ^ David Wilbourne (8 June 2018). "Archbishop Gwilym Owen Williams — "G. O.": His life and opinions by D. T. W. Price". Church Times. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  3. ^ Dillwyn Miles (1992). The Secret of the Bards of the Isle of Britain. Gwasg Dinefwr Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-9519926-0-9.
  4. ^ Paul Brown (15 March 2010). Historic Ships: The Survivors. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-4456-2006-0.
  5. ^ Andy Roberts (30 September 2008). Albion Dreaming: A popular history of LSD in Britain (Revised Edition with a new foreword by Dr. Sue Blackmore). Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. p. 218. ISBN 978-981-4328-97-5.
  6. ^ Charlotte Aull Davies (1989). Welsh Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: The Ethnic Option and the Modern State. Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-93116-2.
  7. ^ North Wales Weekly News, 30 September 1976.
  8. ^ Nathan Bevan (22 June 2015). "Inside the hotel where five people died in one of Wales' worst ever mass murders". WalesOnline. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  9. ^ The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's who. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1992. ISBN 978-0-611-00817-6.
  10. ^ Richard Harrison Martin (1995). Contemporary Fashion. St. James Press. ISBN 978-1-55862-173-2.
  11. ^ Ellen Baker, 'My Husband, My Love', Woman's Own Magazine, December 1976 accessed 26 May 2012
  12. ^ Wynne Melville Jones (14 August 2014). Wyn Mel (in Welsh). Y Lolfa. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-78461-029-6.
  13. ^ M. J. Simpson (29 April 2005). Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams. Justin, Charles & Co. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-932112-35-1.
  14. ^ National Union Catalog. Rowman and Littlefield. 1973. p. 467.
  15. ^ Sharon Morgan (2012). Hanes Rhyw Gymraes (in Welsh). Y Lolfa.
  16. ^ "How Green was my Father". BBC. 27 July 2011. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
  17. ^ "BBC Wales Sport Personality winners". BBC Sport. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  18. ^ a b "Profile: Ray Reardon". Eurosport. 2 March 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  19. ^ "Iestyn Harris: Rallying his motley crew under the banner of Welsh pride". The Independent. 10 February 2011. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  20. ^ Geoffery Giuliano (2 July 2001). Lennon in America: 1971-1980, Based in Part on the Lost Lennon Diaries. Cooper Square Press. p. 238. ISBN 978-1-4616-3561-1.
  21. ^ Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
  22. ^ Eric Carwardine Francis at archINFORM. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
  23. ^ "Roger Livesey, Character Actor On Stage and Screen, Is Dead". New York Times. February 7, 1976. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  24. ^ Rajani Palme Dutt (1976). The Labour Monthly. Labour Publishing Company. p. 118.
  25. ^ Peter Jackson (1998). Lions of Wales: A Celebration of Welsh Rugby Legends. Mainstream. p. 210. ISBN 978-1-84018-026-8.
  26. ^ Nick Talevski (1999). The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries. Omnibus. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-7119-7548-4.
  27. ^ Who was who. St. Martin's Press. 1971. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-312-87746-0.
  28. ^ Twentieth-century Children's Writers. Macmillan Education UK. 1978. p. 624. ISBN 9781349036486.
  29. ^ The Antiquaries Journal. H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 1978. p. 449.
  30. ^ Robert Shail (2008). Stanley Baker: A Life in Film. University of Wales Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-7083-2126-3.
  31. ^ Encyclopedia of World Biography: Supplement. Gale Research. 2001. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-7876-2945-8.