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.

As well as Abbott and Mellor, the series was worked on by many writers who have gone on to enjoy successful careers in adult television drama, perhaps most notably Russell T Davies, who was the show's producer, and writer of several episodes, from 1992 to 1995.

Swinton became Champions of the Rugby Football League Championship in seasons 1962 – 63 and 1963 – 64, during a decade that saw the club enjoy the services of star players such as John Stopford, Alan Buckley, Ken Gowers, Dave Robinson, Billy " Daz " Davies, Bill Holliday and Albert Blan.

The population of the parish rose from 6, 471 in 1841 to 14, 999 in 1851 and 32, 299 in 1861 and John Davies described it as " the most dynamic place in Wales ".

As the early modern period commenced in the late 15th century, many changes began to shock Europe that would have an effect on the production of grimoires ; the historian Owen Davies classed the most important of these as being the Protestant Reformation and subsequent Catholic Counter-Reformation, the witch-hunts and the advent of printing.

Although most historians have dismissed the terms of the Indenture as being highly ambitious and fanciful, R. R. Davies noted that certain internal features underscore the rootedness of Glyndŵr's political philosophy in Welsh mythology: in it, the three men invoke prophecy, and the boundaries of Wales are defined according to Merlinic literature.

The constituency has returned a Conservative MP at most recent elections ; the current member is David Davies, first elected in 2005.

David Ivor Davies ( 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951 ), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century.

The most recent Archers reference books are Who's Who in The Archers by Keri Davies, senior producer and scriptwriter.

Professor Davies tells us that Gerald, whom he calls " an admirable story-teller ", is the only source for some of the most famous of the Welsh folk tales including the declaration of the old man of Pencader to Henry II which concludes Descriptio Cambriae: " This nation, O King, may now, as in former times, be harassed, and in a great measure weakened and destroyed by your and other powers, and it will also prevail by its laudable exertions, but it can never be totally subdued through the wrath of man, unless the wrath of God shall concur.

One of the most popular versions of the Chief Inspector was that played by British actor Rupert Davies who made his debut on October 31, 1960.

Mary was portrayed by silent screen star Marion Davies in the 1922 film When Knighthood Was in Flower, reputed to have been, at the time of its release, the most expensive film ever made.

The Kinks have been called " the most adamantly British of the Brit Invasion bands " on account of Ray Davies ' abiding fascination with England's imperial past and his tender, bittersweet evocations of " a vanishing, romanticized world of village greens, pubs and public schools ".

Davies is often at his most affecting when he sings of giving up worldly ambition for the simple rewards of love and domesticity (" This is Where I Belong ", 1966 ; " Two Sisters ", 1967 ; " The Way Love Used to Be ", 1971 ; " Sweet Lady Genevieve ", 1973 ; " You Make It All Worthwhile ", 1974 ), or when he extols the consolations of friendship and memory (" Days ", 1968 ; " Do You Remember Walter?

Other London-based bands included the Yardbirds ( who would number their ranks three key guitarists Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page ), the Kinks ( with the pioneer songwriter Ray Davies and rock-guitarist Dave Davies ) and, Manfred Mann ( considered to have one of the most authentic sounding vocalists in the scene in Paul Jones ) and the Pretty Things, beside the more jazz-influenced acts like the Graham Bond Organisation, Georgie Fame and Zoot Money.

Playing more energetic music than most others on the London pub-rock circuit, the Ducks soon had a twice weekly booking at the Tally Ho in Kentish Town, and a manager, Dai Davies.

The constituency has returned a Conservative MP at most recent elections ; the current member is David Davies, first elected in 2005.

While Raskin merely describes the main binary oppositions providing examples mostly from the Jewish humor ), Davies explores the situations where the scripts apply ; for example, he has discovered that the most common opposition, stupid / clever, is applied under particular circumstances in the social reality of two ethnic groups concerned.

The most notorious incident was at The Capitol Theatre, Cardiff, Wales in May 1965, involving drummer Mick Avory and Dave Davies.

Davies has played a number of guitars over time, the most recognizable of which is his Gibson Flying V. Davies bought it in 1965, and soon began appearing live and on TV performances with it.

* In The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies, the scholar Dunstan Ramsay and the stage magician Paul Dempster a. k. a. Magnus Eisengrim end up as the " permanent guests " and lovers of the eccentric Swiss millionaire Lieselotte Naegeli – the three of them occasionally sharing an especially large bed, though " most often in order to have a breakfast in bed or take an important decision " rather than for sex.

Between 1964 and 1989, the flamboyant Davies built FEER from a small weekly into one of Asia's most authoritative magazines, with a circulation of nearly 90, 000.

Despite the seeming spontaneity of the swap, it was undoubtedly planned ( at least on the part of Davies and the producers ), as evidenced by the fact that Davies, in turn, produced his own set of questions on loose-leaf paper ( most of which he directed at Fry ), and also by the photographs and obvious-answer graphics which accompanied Davies ' questions.

Once Fry confirmed his participation, Davies did not hear back from the production team Unlike following the classic format of the show where most questions follow a subject, instead the episode was an hour long ( including breaks ) General Ignorance round.