1937-1946

Events

• World War II
• David Jones
• Centenary of the Rebecca Riots
• Welsh landscape
• Lady Llanover
• Ballads
  • Ladies Reform Bill
  • Wreck of the Titanic
  • Can newydd yn rhoddi hanes carwriaeth John Jones (A new song giving the story of the love affair of John Jones)
  • Can newydd yn rhoddi hanes ystorom ddychrynllyd (A new song telling the story of a dreadful storm)

Newspapers

• Western Mail March 15 1939: Germany attacks Czechoslovakia
• Western Mail: Medi 2 1939: Evacuees
• Western Mail September 4 1939: War declared
• South Wales Evening Post February 22 1941: Swansea bombed
• Western Mail: May 12 1941: Houses of Parliament bombed
• Western Mail December 8 1941: Pearl Harbour attacks
• South Wales Evening Post March 27 1945: Death of Lloyd George, Allied successes
• Western Mail April 20 1945: Awaiting the end of the war, Mussolini executed
• South Wales Evening News May 8 1945: Germany surrenders
• Western Mail June 6 1945: Occupying Germany
• Western Mail August 7 1945: Atomic bomb

Ballads: Wreck of the Titanic

Title Wreck of the Titanic
Date ca. 1913
Reference PR1710 A1 S91 H284

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