Wales Office - Wales Office

On the other hand, the daily conversation of ordinary people in the northern and western rural areas was still dominated by Welsh, and with the evangelical movement from the late 18th century onwards, the Welsh language came to be valued as a means of mass educa- tion. In the late 19th century, influenced by the movements for self-government in Ireland and Scotland, a movement to restore Welsh identity emerged, focusing mainly on education and religion, and culminated in the establishment of the Welsh Office to handle educational administration (1906) and the abolition of the Church of England's privileges in Wales (1914). The movement continued to stagnate during the interwar period due to the economic recession, unemployment problems, and the passive attitude of the Labour Party, which took control of electoral districts in place of the Liberal Party, but it was revived against the backdrop of the prosperity after World War II and the growing resentment against the progress of centralization, and in 1966 a Minister for Wales and a Welsh Office were established, and in 1967 the Welsh Language Act meant that England would not include Wales for the first time in two centuries.

*Some of the glossaries referring to the "Welsh Agency" are listed below.

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…他面，北部，西部農村地帯の庶民の日常会話は依然ウェールズ語に支配され，18世紀後半以降の福音運動とともに，大衆教化の手段としてウェールズ語が重視されるようになる。19世紀後半にはアイルランドやスコットランドの自治権運動の影響もあって，教育･宗教面を主眼に独自性回復の動きが表面化し，教育行政を扱うウェールズ庁設置(1906)や英国国教会のウェールズでの特権廃止(1914)に結実する。戦間期の経済不況，失業問題や，自由党に代わって選挙区を掌握した労働党の消極的姿勢等から低迷を続けた運動も，第2次大戦後の繁栄と中央集権の進行に対する反感の高まりを背景に復活し，1966年にはウェールズ担当大臣とウェールズ庁が設けられ，67年のウェールズ言語法によって，2世紀ぶりにイングランドはウェールズを含まないことになった。…

※「ウェールズ庁」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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