1937 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1937 to Wales and its people.

1937
in
Wales

Centuries:
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1910s
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
See also:
1937 in
The United Kingdom
Ireland
Scotland

Incumbents

Events

Arts and literature

  • Summer - Literary magazine Wales first published, edited by Keidrych Rhys.[10]
  • James Gomer Berry becomes chairman of Kemsley Newspapers Ltd.
  • The Prose Medal is awarded for the first time at the National Eisteddfod.

Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Machynlleth)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – T. Rowland Hughes
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – J. M. Edwards
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – J. O. Williams[11]

New books

Music

Film

  • Ray Milland appears in five new films, including Ebb Tide.

Broadcasting

  • 1 February – A new transmitter is opened at Penmon, Anglesey, to bring the West and Wales BBC Regional Programme to North Wales.
  • 4 July – Following the alteration of frequencies at the BBC's Washford transmitting station to enable it to radiate separate regional services for South Wales and the West of England, the new Welsh Regional Programme begins, broadcast from Washford (across the Bristol Channel) on 1050 kHz and Penmon on 804 kHz.
  • Radio programmes include: The Fascination of Brechfa, presented by G. Arbour Stevens[14]

Sport

  • Billiards - Horace Coles wins the World Amateur Billiards Championship.
  • Boxing
    • 15 March - Tommy Farr wins the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles.
    • 30 August - Farr loses on points to Joe Louis.

Births

Deaths

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See also

References

  1. C. J. Litzenberger; Eileen Groth Lyon (2006). The Human Tradition in Modern Britain. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-7425-3735-4.
  2. Ward, Stephanie (16 May 2016). Unemployment and the State in Britain: The means test and protest in 1930s south Wales and north-east England. Manchester University Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-1-5261-1232-3.
  3. The Railway Magazine. IPC Business Press. 1988. p. 181.
  4. The Tramway Review. Light Railway Transport League. 1957. p. 185.
  5. Francis, Hywel (2012). Miners against fascism: Wales and the Spanish Civil War. Lawrence & Wishart. p. x. ISBN 978-1-907103-51-3.
  6. Jenkins, David (2002). A Refuge in Peace and War: The National Library of Wales to 1952. Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales. p. 256. ISBN 1-86225-034-0.
  7. Caernarvonshire Historical Society (2006). Transactions: (Trafodion). p. 61.
  8. Morgan, Kenneth O. (1981). Rebirth of a Nation: Wales, 1880–1980. Oxford University Press. pp. 297. ISBN 978-0-19-821736-7.
  9. Kovach, Warren (15 October 2017). Anglesey in 50 Buildings. Amberley Publishing. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-4456-7257-1.
  10. "Welsh Journals". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  11. "National Eisteddfod website". Archived from the original on 23 May 2011. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
  12. Simon Featherstone (1995). War Poetry: An Introductory Reader. Taylor & Francis. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-415-07750-7.
  13. Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions. Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1938. pp. 1151.
  14. Roger Simpson (2008). Radio Camelot: Arthurian Legends on the BBC, 1922–2005. DS Brewer. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-84384-140-1.
  15. Joan Collins (1999). My Friends' Secrets. Andre Deutsch. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-233-99673-8.
  16. Dod's Parliamentary Companion. Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Limited. 2007. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-905702-66-7.
  17. Screen International Film and TV Year Book. Screen International, King Publications. 1983. p. 450.
  18. "Brian Curvis". The Times. 28 January 2012. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  19. Malcolm Hurlston (14 August 2018). "Lord Thomas of Macclesfield obituary". The Times. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  20. Great Britain (1937). The Solicitors' Journal. The Journal. p. 114.
  21. Randolph Spencer Churchill; Martin Gilbert (1983). Winston S. Churchill: The prophet of truth, 1922–1939. Houghton Mifflin. p. 657.
  22. David Gwenallt Jones. "Jones, Richard Idwal Mervyn (1895–1937), much better known as Idwal Jones, schoolmaster, poet, and dramatist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
  23. David Lewis Jones. "Philipps, Owen Cosby Baron Kylsant (1863–1937), ship-owner". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
  24. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "Edwards, Alfred George (1848–1937), first archbishop of Wales". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
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