Workers' Revolt and the Blue Books
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Background to a report on the Welsh language in education in Victorian Wales.
An exploration of the reasons behind the commissioning of a report on Welsh education and the use of the Welsh language in 1846, later called the 'Treason of the Blue Books'. This report portrayed Victorian Welsh society in a bad light, and put this down to the influence of the language on Welsh life. It suggested that all education in Wales had to be through the medium of English from this time onwards.
From:
Bread of Heaven A Non Conformist People
First broadcast
:
07 December 2004
Teachers' notes
Age Group : 11-14
Subject : History
Topic : Aspects of History of Wales and England, Industrial Wales and Britain, Victorians
Keywords : Education in Wales, History of the Welsh language, The Blue Books, Attitudes to the Welsh language
Notes : Why was the publication of the Blue Books report into Welsh education such a nail in the coffin of Welsh language education? Discuss why it happened. Look at how Welsh language education made its reappearance in the next century
