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Angels, Doves and Minerva: Reading the memorials to the Great War in Welsh Presbyterian chapels

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Cylchgrawn Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, Volume: 42, Pages: 72 - 91

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Focussing particularly on the Calvinistic Methodist denomination in Wales, this article examines the variety of messages that can be gleaned from a study of First World War memorials. It begins with the thorny issue of how, and to what extent, the denomination accepted the rhetoric of the war and su...

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Published in: Cylchgrawn Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd
Published: Cardiff Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd; Historical Society of Presbyterian Church of Wales 2019
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