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Iorwerth Peate - Wikipedia
- Iorwerth Cyfeiliog Peate (27 February – 19 October ) was a Welsh poet and scholar, best known as the founder, along with Cyril Fox, of St Fagans National Museum of History.
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Man, Myth and Museum: Iorwerth C. Peate and the Making of the ...
- Iorwerth Peate was educated at Llanbryn-Mair Elementary School and Machynlleth Grammar School where the headmaster H. H. Meyler influenced him.
| Iorwerth C. Peate and the Making of the Welsh Folk Museum. | |
| Iorwerth Cyfeiliog Peate (27 February 1901 – 19 October 1982) was a Welsh poet and scholar, best known as the founder, along with Cyril Fox, of St Fagans National Museum of History. | |
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Man, Myth and Museum: Iorwerth C. Peate and the Making of the ...
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PEATE, IORWERTH CYFEILIOG (1901-1982), Curator of the Welsh ...
- "This magisterial biography of one of the most important Welshmen of the twentieth century interrogates Iorwerth Peate the myth (of his own creation) regarding his contribution to the study of folk life and the founding of the Welsh Folk Museum.
Book review: Man, Myth and Museum
Aled Singleton
In this finely balanced book Eurwyn Wiliam provides a detailed account of Iorwerth Peate’s life (1901-1982), with a focus on establishing the museum at St Fagans. It makes a deliberate choice of each chapter focusing on certain themes connected to Peate’s life, such as establishing the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, country craftsmen, the Welsh house and a folk museum for Wales.
To be clear this is not a chronological biographical account of Peate’s life. Wiliam’s approach helps to structure the chapters and stresses the important contexts of the times in which lived. This choice makes the book interesting to the general reader in the ways that I discuss here, but it also has some downsides.
The man
Peate came from a line of craftspeople and was raised in Llanbryn-Mair, a Welsh-speaking rural area of mid Wales. He went to grammar school, then studied at Aberystwyth University and moved to Cardiff in 1926 to work at th
Iorwerth Cyfeiliog Peate - Rhiwbina Society
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Iorwerth Cyfeiliog Peate - Rhiwbina Society
- The first book dedicated to the life and legacy of Welsh curator and academic Iorweth C. Peate.