More recently, William D. Rubinstein, Professor of Modern History at Aberystwyth University, Wales, wrote that Conservative politician and pro-Zionist Leo Amery, as Assistant Secretary to the British war cabinet in 1917, was the main author of the Balfour Declaration.

In 2009, it was announced that a thirty-year old ban of the film in the Welsh town of Aberystwyth was finally lifted, and the subsequent showing was attended by Terry Jones and Michael Palin alongside mayor Sue Jones-Davies ( who portrayed Judith Iscariot in the film ).

However, before the showing, an Aberystwyth University student discovered that the film had never been banned in Aberystwyth, but was shown ( or was scheduled to be shown ) at a cinema in the town in 1981.

The first popular MUD codebase was AberMUD, written in 1987 by Alan Cox, named after the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

In the autumn, Owain ’ s Aberystwyth Castle surrendered — whilst he was out fighting for the land it stood on.

His chief fortress was said to have been Caer Wyddno (), located somewhere to the north-west of modern-day Aberystwyth.

AberMUD was the first popular open source MUD, named after the town in which it was written, Aberystwyth.

The first version was written in B by Alan Cox, Richard Acott, Jim Finnis, and Leon Thrane based at University of Wales, Aberystwyth for an old Honeywell mainframe and opened in 1987.

Indeed, a principal station on the Carmarthen Aberystwyth Line was named after the Abbey.

* Joseph Parry, Welsh-born composer of hymns whose song ' Aberystwyth ' was adapted into Nkosi Sikelel ' iAfrika, the National anthem of South Africa.

In 2009, a smaller research unit was established in Aberystwyth.

Her Welsh gold wedding ring includes a Celtic motif and was purchased in the Welsh town of Aberystwyth.

Ankst was a Welsh independent record label formed in 1988 at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth by Alun Llwyd, Gruffudd Jones and Emyr Glyn Williams.

While at Aberystwyth, Hamilton was active in the Federation of Conservative Students, ( a member between 1968 and 1974 ).

In the novel Last Tango in Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce, Ben Guggenheim's concern for others before himself as the Titanic was sinking was used as a moral compass.

The study of International relations as theory can be traced to E. H. Carr's " The Twenty Years ' Crisis " which was published in 1939 and to Hans Morgenthau's " Politics Among Nations " published in 1948. International relations as a discipline is believed to have emerged after the First World War with the establishment of a Chair of International Relations at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

The standard gauge Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway was expanding rapidly from its base at Machynlleth, however, and in 1863 had reached Tywyn, so McConnel decided to build his line from the quarry to Tywyn, as the nearest point where slate could be transferred to the standard gauge railway.

In December 2008, a proposal was made for the return of direct services between Aberystwyth in mid-Wales and London, which last ran in 1991, with Marylebone proposed as the London terminus.

IR only emerged as a formal academic ‘ discipline ’ in 1918 with the founding of the first ‘ chair ’ ( professorship ) in IR-the Woodrow Wilson Chair at Aberystwyth, University of Wales ( now Aberystwyth University ), from an endowment given by David Davies, became the first academic position dedicated to IR.

The founding of the first chair in International Relations ( at Aberystwyth University, Wales ), whose remit was partly to further the cause of peace, occurred in 1919.

* London, Durham and it's former constituent college at Newcastle and the colleges of the former University of Wales ( at Lampeter, Aberystwyth, Bangor and Cardiff )-which were chartered in the 19th century.

In 1996, the University of Wales was reorganised to admit two former higher education institutions and the older members became " Constituent Institutions " rather than colleges, being renamed along the lines of University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

However significant such changes may seem, it is arguable that the effective imposition of an average undergraduate fee of £ 7. 5 K pa for the three institutions ( and others, but not to Cardiff, Swansea, Bangor and Aberystwyth all of whom will charge £ 9 K pa ) will cause much more substantial long term damage to these universities and reinvent the ' binary divide ' between universities and the former polytechnics and HE institutes

In 1994 Rose Simpson, a former member of the band, became Lady Mayoress of Aberystwyth.

In 1968 the line was rerouted in Aberystwyth to run adjacent to the BR line into the former standard gauge Carmarthen line platforms of the main station which had been abandoned in 1964.

The nearest station was at Pont Llanio, situated next to a former milk processing plant approximately a mile outside the village, on the former Carmarthen – Aberystwyth route.

The Gwili Railway ( Welsh: Rheilffordd Ager y Gwili ) is a Welsh heritage railway that operates a standard gauge preserved railway line from the site of Abergwili Junction ( near Carmarthen ) in South West Wales along a short section of the former Carmarthen to Aberystwyth railway that closed for passenger traffic in 1965, the track being lifted in 1975 " just as the Gwili was being established ".

He is the former editor ( 1983 – 2002 ) of the Swedish Book Review, and former lecturer at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and the University of Wales, Lampeter.

Disused railway bridge over the River Gwili on the former Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line

A related, but slightly different, use of the term existed in the federal University of Wales ; some of its constituent colleges took titles such as " University College Aberystwyth ".

On 1 September 2007, the University of Wales ceased to be a federal university and Aberystwyth became independent again.

The University of Wales was founded in Wales in 1893 as a federal university with three foundation colleges: University College Wales ( now Aberystwyth University ), which had been founded in 1872 and University College North Wales ( now Bangor University ) and University College South Wales and Monmouthshire ( now Cardiff University ) which were founded following the Aberdare Report in 1881.

More changes followed in September 2007 when the university changed from a federal structure to a confederation of independent institutions, allowing those individual institutions which had gained the status of universities in their own right to use the title of university – these institutions are Aberystwyth University, Bangor University, Glyndŵr University ( formerly the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education ), Swansea Metropolitan University and Swansea University.

Owen ’ s time as principal was not an easy one: he fought a sustained battle for Lampeter to be included in the newly formed federal University of Wales, which had already embraced the colleges at Aberystwyth, Bangor and Cardiff.

* Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom

His father had a first-class honours degree in English from University College, Aberystwyth and ambitions to rise above his position teaching English literature at the local grammar school.

* Eve ( robot ), a robot scientist working at Aberystwyth University

He went to school at Eastbourne College, before going on to study at University College of Wales at Aberystwyth and at Merton College, Oxford.

* Lake Tana project at Aberystwyth University

* Aberystwyth University: Parasitology — class outline with links to full text articles on parasitism and parasitology.

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* Goronwy Rees, Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth

Of her research for Falls the Shadow, Penman explains: " I did a great deal of on-site research, visiting the castles and battlefields that figured in Falls the Shadow, visiting the Reading Room at the British Library, the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, and local reference libraries .... Here at home, I made use of the University of Pennsylvania Library in Philadelphia, which has an excellent medieval selection.

* Castle House, later replaced by Old College Aberystwyth University, ( 1795 )

Aberystwyth: University of Wales, 1988 ; Second edition, 1992.

He went on to study at Aberystwyth University and the University of Manchester.

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