After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

Steam coal was subsequently found in the Rhondda and further west, but many of the great companies of the Welsh coal industry's Gilded Age started operation in Aberdare and the lower Cynon Valley, including those of Samuel Thomas, David Davies and Sons, Nixon's Navigation and Powell Duffryn.

Boudica has been the subject of two feature films, the 1928 film Boadicea, where she was portrayed by Phyllis Neilson-Terry, and 2003's Boudica ( Warrior Queen in the US ), a UK TV film written by Andrew Davies and starring Alex Kingston as Boudica.

A translation by Richard Davies, bishop of St David's and the scholar William Salesbury was published in 1567 by Humphrey Toy as Y Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin.

However, this practice did cause some controversy: Numerous politicians, journalists, and authors, such as Robertson Davies, decried the change at the time, and some continue to maintain that it was illegitimate and an unnecessary break with tradition.

Russell T Davies was briefly a storyliner on the programme in the mid-1990s, also writing the script for the direct-to-video special " Viva Las Vegas!

The curve was studied 1826 by Davies Gilbert and, apparently independently, by Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis in 1836.

Five months after the release of Tommy, The Kinks released another concept album, Arthur ( Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire ) ( September 1969 ), written by Ray Davies ; though considered by some a rock opera, it was originally conceived as the score for a proposed but never realised BBC television drama.

In December 1944 he recorded Quite Early One Morning produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies again for the Welsh BBC but when Davies offered it for national broadcast it was turned down by BBC London .. On 31 August 1945 Quite Early One Morning was broadcast on the BBC Home Service, and in the three years beginning October 1945, Thomas made over a hundred broadcasts for the corporation.

It is said that during a visit to Alde House around 1860, one evening while sitting by the fireside, Elizabeth and Emily Davies selected careers for advancing the frontiers of women's rights ; Elizabeth was to open the medical profession to women, Emily the doors to a university education for women, while 13-year-old Millicent was allocated politics and votes for women.

By the 18th century, the term had gained its now common usage in France, and had begun to be used to refer purely to books of magic, which Owen Davies presumed was because " many of them continued to circulate in Latin manuscripts.

As the historian Owen Davies noted, " while the Church was ultimately successful in defeating pagan worship it never managed to demarcate clearly and maintain a line of practice between religious devotion and magic ," and the use of such books on magic continued.

Davies, the gospel of Matthew was written as a direct response to developments within the Jewish community following the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD.

Hobart's major newspaper is The Mercury, which was founded by John Davies in 1854 and has been continually published ever since.

The story was adapted by Andrew Davies from a novel written by Michael Dobbs, a former Chief of Staff at Conservative Party headquarters.

Secombe was born in rooms in the Danygraig Area of St. Thomas and later the family moved to a council house in the St Thomas district of Swansea, the third of four children of Nellie Jane Gladys ( née Davies ), a shop manageress, and Frederick Ernest Secombe, a grocer .< ref >

Dr. Cardew, who, in a later letter to Davies Gilbert, said dryly: “ I could not discern the faculties by which he was afterwards so much distinguished .” Davy said himself: “ I consider it fortunate I was left much to myself as a child, and put upon no particular plan of study ... What I am I made myself .”

Lamorna Cove was the title of a poem by W. H. Davies published in 1929.

The loss was so heavy that Norman Davies wrote: " At Chmielnik, the assembled nobility of Małopolska perished to a man.

Garrick's Macbeth was celebrated ; Thomas Davies claims that when the Duke of Parma asked Garrick to demonstrate his acting ability, he acted the scene of Banquo's ghost.

Captain Harry Stafford found four local businessmen, including John Henry Davies ( who became club president ), each willing to invest £ 500 in return for a direct interest in running the club and who subsequently changed the name ; on 24 April 1902, Manchester United was officially born.

Novello was born in Cardiff, Wales, to David Davies ( c. 1852 — 1931 ), a rent collector for the city council, and his wife, Clara Novello Davies, an internationally-known singing teacher and choral conductor.

* Sharron Davies ( born 1962 ), British swimmer

Raymond Douglas " Ray " Davies, CBE ( ; born 21 June 1944 ) is an English rock musician.

Davies was born at 6 Denmark Terrace, Fortis Green in Muswell Hill, North London, England.

He is the seventh of eight children born to Fred and Annie Davies, including six older sisters and younger brother Dave Davies.

W. H. Davies ( 1871 – 1940 ), born in Newport, became famous principally for his The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp which was set mostly in North America.

* Simon Davies, a footballer who has played for Fulham and Wales, was born in Haverfordwest.

John Davies Cale, OBE ( born 9 March 1942 ) is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground.

John Cale was born 9 March 1942 in Garnant in the heavily industrial Amman Valley of Wales to Will Cale and Margaret Davies.

Rhys-Davies was born in Ammanford, Wales, the son of Welsh parents Mary Margaretta Phyllis Jones, a nurse, and Rhys Davies, a mechanical engineer and Colonial Officer.

* August 27-Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, daughter of George du Maurier and mother of the " Lost Boys " ( born 1866 )

* April 6-Idris Davies, poet ( born 1905 ; abdominal cancer )

Davies was born Marion Cecilia Douras on January 3, 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest of five children born to Bernard J. Douras ( 1857 – 1935 ), a lawyer and judge in New York City ; and Rose Reilly ( 1867 – 1928 ).

* December 8-Sir John Davies, poet ( born 1569 )

* July-John Davies of Hereford, poet ( born c. 1565 )

Andrew Wynford Davies ( born 20 September 1936 ) is a British screenwriter and author of books.

Davies () was born in Rhiwbina, Cardiff, Wales.

Geraint Wyn Davies was born in Britain on 20 April 1957 in Swansea in South Wales.

He is usually known as John Davies of Hereford ( after the city where he was born ) in order to distinguish him from others of the same name.

David Russell Gordon " Dave " Davies ( born 3 February 1947, Fortis Green, London ) is an English rock musician best known for his role as lead guitarist and vocalist for the English rock band The Kinks.