Talk:The Kymin

Welsh name please
What's the Welsh name for the Kymin, please? Llywelyn2000 (talk) 07:47, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Sources such as this seem to use Y Kymin. It would be useful to know the etymology of the name though, and I'm aware that Welsh doesn't usually use a K.  Cumin?  Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:09, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi, guy - guess where we had wine, cheese and crackers on Suturday? The NTrust opened up the rooundhouse for us Victuallers (talk) 16:40, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
 * If you ran all the way up there (I'm sure you did...), I expect you deserved them. No Welsh cakes?  Ghmyrtle (talk) 16:55, 23 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I've given the Welsh as Charles Heath gave it. Whether it's correct..... KJP1 (talk) 09:10, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Peter Borsay
The three Borsay references, 2a/b/c, link to an article about the Labour Party on Encyclopedia.com. If this can be corrected, great, otherwise they'll have to come out. I think it can only be accessed through JSTOR. KJP1 (talk) 07:48, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
 * The below would be a very useful addition but it does need a source. KJP1 (talk) 11:00, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
 * The building of the temple, in a small county town in Wales, far from the sea and with no great naval or seafaring traditions, was surprising. According to researcher Peter Borsay, the monument's design, and its location overlooking the border between England and Wales, were symbolic of the formation of Great Britain. It was built at the time of the Act of Union with Ireland, about a century after that with Scotland, and at a time when the United Kingdom was engaged in a war with France which was helping to define, and being used to define, what it was to be British.

"Up until 1797 Britannia was conventionally depicted holding a spear, but as a consequence of the increasingly prominent role of the navy in the war against the French, and of several spectacular victories, the spear was replaced by a trident. It is this that the Kymin Britannia wields. The navy had come to be seen... as the very bulwark of British liberty and the essence of what it was to be British... It was therefore entirely appropriate that the temple should be a naval one, that the heroes celebrated should all be naval officers, and that battles commemorated ones fought at sea.' In building the temple, Monmouth staked its own claim to be the centre of British identity as the birthplace of King Henry V, of whom a statue was placed on the Shire Hall in 1792. Within two years of the battle of Waterloo in 1815 the name of the town's market place had been changed to Agincourt Square 'in order to celebrate a victory of Henry V's that seemed as famous as Wellington's."

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