... room was available, in one case a windmill; they would spend three months at a time in a village setting up the school and then move on. Over a 45 year period Circulating schools visited almost every parish in the country delivering predominantly basic literacy through religious texts in the medium of Welsh. Unfortunately by the end of the century a lack of funding caused the movement to dissolve, but not before a hunger for learning had been created. Sunday Schools Sunday schools followed the success of the circulating schools, which lasted only a few months before the teacher moved on. School on Sunday when most people were available was not a new idea; it was tried first by Robert Raikes in England and taken up by the ever growing nonconformist sects of Wales. The name synonymous with the establishment of Sunday schools in Wales is that of Thomas Charles and they differed ...

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