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The motives are not entirely clear, but one suspects that an attempt was being made to record the dying Welsh culture before it succumbed to encroaching
English influences. The original intention was to do a series of such studies of selected communities in various parts of Wales, but, as in Ireland,
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University committees. From 1968 to 1971 he was Warden of the college's Guild of Graduates. In summer 1973, he warned the University Council that he intended to bring in a minority report against University expansionism.
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between the young men's group and the rest of the community, which Rees argued served to reinforce community norms. Rees and Bowen encouraged a series of studies of Welsh rural communities at the university. From 1954 to 1960 they worked to co-edit
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holds a collection of Rees's papers. In 2019 M Wynn Thomas delivered a lecture in memory of his Rees's efforts to save the
University of Wales in the early 1960s, and his role in securing
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in 1960, successfully resisting the break-up of the university. In
February 1966 Rees became editor of the Welsh-language literary magazine
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appointed Rees to the department of geography and anthropology. Rees's own study of
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studentship to study Welsh literature, he gained an MA in 1937 with research on pagan survivals in early
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Britain's Last
Religious Revival?: Quantifying Belonging, Behaving, and Believing in the Long 1950s
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Pahl, Ray (2011). "Book Review: Identities and Social Change since 1940: The
Politics of Method".
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in the Mynydd (Mountain) colliery in
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Community Studies: An Introduction to the Sociology of the Local Community
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Welsh geographer, social anthropologist and Welsh nationalist (1911–1974)
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Life in a Welsh countryside, a social study of Llanfihangel yng Ngwynfa
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P. Jones; J. Sinclair; C. Cook; Jeffrey Weeks, eds. (25 April 1985).
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Unwell since 1973, Rees died of a heart attack on 6 December 1974.
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war intervened and the project was only continued some years later.
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The magistrate's dilemma vis-à-vis the Welsh language offender
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in the late 1950s. He defended the federal structure of the
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Bell, Colin; Newby, Howard (1971). "The European Studies".
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Celtic heritage: ancient tradition in Ireland and Wales
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Approaches to Religion and Mythology in Celtic Studies
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571:. In Alexandra Bergholm; Katja Ritari (eds.).
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161:Life in a Welsh Countryside
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