LANDMARKS IN WELSH HISTORY
1830s
New wave of attacks on Welsh. Report of Queen's Commission complains: "The people's ignorance of the English language practically prevents the working of the laws and institutions and impedes the administration of justice." Justice means Rule of brutal Employers, Landowners, Soldiers and Police - most of them English-speaking;
Privy Council recommends that "a band of efficient schoolmasters is kept up at much less expense than a body of police and soldiery." So campaign mounted in Parliament, The Times, etc. to brainwash Welsh children with English language and history.
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