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	Wikipedia: Wessex
		Wessex was one of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (the Heptarchy) that preceded the kingdom of England.
		Wessex was, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, founded by Cerdic and Cynric, although the specifics given by the ASC are mostly fictitious.
		Wessex was used by the English author, Thomas Hardy, as an imaginary county of southwestern England, the setting for most of his novels.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/w/we/wessex.html (318 words)

	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Wessex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (ASC), Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric, chieftains of a clan known as "Gewisse", although the specific events given by the ASC are considered to be suspect.
		Wessex expanded its boundaries and clashed with its neighbours, notably British Dumnonia (essentially modern day Devon and Cornwall), which it eventually came to dominate, and with Mercia.
		In an unusual move, Prince Edward was made Earl of Wessex and Viscount Severn in honour of his marriage to Sophie Rhys-Jones (styled as Countess of Wessex) in 1999.
	encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=Wessex (1074 words)

	Wikinfo \| Wessex
		Wessex was one of the seven kingdoms from which England was formed in about the 9th century.
		Wessex was, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle founded by Cerdic and Cynric.
		The expansion of Wessex into present day Devon led to the increase in the power of the kings of Wessex.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Wessex (335 words)

	Wessex - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wessex expanded its boundaries and clashed with its neighbours, notably Celtic Dumnonia (essentially modern day Devon and Cornwall), which it eventually came to dominate, and with Mercia.
		Wessex Archaeology - An educational charity and the largest UK archaeological practice.
		Wessex culture - an archaeological label used anachronistically to describe a bronze age culture whose remains are found in the Wessex area
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Wessex (954 words)

	Wessex Society
		Wessex Society is a cultural society dedicated to promoting a distinctive regional identity for the Wessex region (click on the button marked "Where is Wessex?", below, for more information on Wessex).
		Please note that Wessex Society is in no way affiliated or connected with the Wessex Society of Newfoundland, which seeks to promote cultural contacts between Newfoundland and the West of England.
		The society's patrons are Lord Bath (owner of Longleat and founder of the Wessex Regionalist party in 1974); musicians Gordon Haskell and Acker Bilk; and Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia (a Wessex man who became the first Englishman to be made a bishop of the
	www.zyworld.com /wessexsociety/Home.htm (505 words)

	Home Page
		Wessex Regionalists, founded in 1974 by Alexander Thynne (now Lord Bath), are the oldest regionalist political party in England, and were advocating regional devolution for Wessex long before English regionalism entered mainstream political consciousness.
		May 2001, and is an all-party pressure group seeking to achieve the broadest consensus on the form of self-government appropriate for Wessex.
		Wessex is administered by 7 county councils with a total of 28 district, 13 borough and 4 city councils; 16 unitary district authorities (including 7 boroughs and 4 cities); one unitary county (Isle of Wight) and 2,244 parish councils.
	www.zyworld.com /wessexsociety/caseforwessex.htm (2758 words)

	Devolution - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The issue of Irish home rule was the dominant political question of British politics at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.
		From the late nineteenth century, leaders of the Irish Parliamentary Party under Isaac Butt, William Shaw and Charles Stewart Parnell had demanded a form of home rule, with the creation of a subsidiary Irish parliament within the United Kingdom (replacing the Irish parliament that existed up to the Act of Union in 1800).
		This demand led to the eventual introduction of four Irish Home Rule Bills, of which only the last two were approved by the British Parliament, and only the final one was enacted: the Government of Ireland Act 1920.
	en.wikipedia.2es.com.pl /wiki/Devolution (1427 words)

	Fighting for Wessex - THE WESSEX REGIONALIST PARTY
		The Wessex Regionalist Party was founded in 1974 by Alexander Thynne, later Lord Bath.
		The Wessex Regionalists are committed to the most appropriate degree of self determination for Wessex within the context of a new England of regions.
		We are working closely with the Wessex Constitutional Convention in the setting up of an assembly/parliament and fully support the Wessex Society in its aim of promoting the history, culture and dialect of Wessex.
	hometown.aol.co.uk /crackytown/myhomepage/opinion.html (289 words)

	Wessex, England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The wyvern is appearing more and more as a symbol of Wessex (my son's school for example has a wyvern on its badge) and the flag is used by the Wessex Regionalist Party, the Wessex Society and is the symbol of the Wessex Constitutional Convention, the group pushing for a parliament for Wessex.
		From Reading in the east to Plymouth in the west, from Bournemouth in the south to Gloucester in the north, Wessex is a dynamic and very distinct region, where there is a growing demand for a parliament with the same level of powers as that in Scotland.
		A wyvern on a pedestal inscribed "Wessex" was the badge of the Wessex Brigade, 1958-69, and the Wessex Regiment, 1967-95.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/gb-wessx.html (1231 words)

	Wessex - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Wessex was, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, founded by Cerdic and Cynric, although the specifics given by the ASC are considered to be mostly fictitious.
		The first datable event in Wessex is the baptism of Cynegils around the year 640.
		The Burghal system of fortified towns (the "burhs") under Alfred the Great, described in both Asser and the ASC and documented in a unique hidage, http://www.ogdoad.force9.co.uk/alfred/alfhidage.htm helped to prevent the conquest of southern England by the Danish invaders in the 870s.
	www.music.us /education/W/Wessex.htm (941 words)

	Wessex Constitutional Convention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Wessex Constitutional Convention is an all party pressure group with the following stated aims: To achieve the broadest consensus on the form of self-government appropriate for Wessex.
		To promote as Wessex the area comprising the eight traditional counties of Berkshire, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire, subject to addition or subtraction according to popular wish.
		It actively participates in the continuing commission on the South, which was set up by the political think-tank "Devolve!" and is chaired by former regions minister Dr. Alan Whitehead, MP.
	wessex-constitutional-convention.iqnaut.net (135 words)

	Wessex Regionalist Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Wessex Regionalist Party is a minor political Party that seeks the establishment some form of legislative and administrative devolved system for the area known as Wessex, in the south-west of England.
		They currently use Thomas Hardy's definition of Wessex as consisting of the traditional counties of Berkshire, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire (which includes the Isle of Wight), Somerset and Wiltshire.
		Their document, The Statute of Wessex, details those powers which they believe should be devolved to a Wessex parliament or "witan", a list largely modelled on the powers which were exercised by the devolved administration in Northern Ireland between 1922 and 1974.
	wessex-regionalist-party.iqnaut.net (265 words)

	Wessex and Chard for the Tourist & Business Person- Gateway to the South
		Chard is an epicentre for Somerset, Devon, Dorset and Wessex.
		King Alfred the Great of Wessex, who styled himself King of the English, ruled from 871-899, and did much to consolidate the kingdom and advance the development of what was to become the English monarchy.
		It was during the reign of King Athelstan (925-939), however, that the royal house of Wessex reached a peak of splendor and success, and the Wessex king could proudly lay claim to the title "King of all Britain".
	www.wessex.me.uk /chardpics.html (4809 words)

	Left-wing politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		While many American "liberals" would be "social democrats" in European terms, very few of them openly embrace the term "left"; in the United States, the term is mainly embraced by New Left activists, certain portions of the labor movement, and people who See their intellectual or political heritage as descending from 19th-century socialist movements.
		For example, the Democratic Leadership Council (in which Bill Clinton was active) is generally considered to form the right wing of the U.S. Democratic Party (which outside the US is considered to be right of center), but in terms of the whole country he was generally perceived as being on the moderate left.
		In Hong Kong, the term "left-wing" is usually used to describe the political parties that mostly support the policies of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Central Government in Beijing.
	left-wing-politics.iqnaut.net (2862 words)

	AardvarkArticles.net - Politics - Left-wing Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The term is also often used to characterize the politics of the Soviet Union and other one-party "communist states", although many (perhaps most) on the political left (including many Marxists) would not consider their own politics to have anything significant in common with any of these states.
		One might normally characterize the following parties as on the political left in their respective countries, though they might have relatively little in common with other left-wing groups beyond their opposition to the right.
		Also, please note that Irish parties do not fall in the same typical Left/Right categories as political parties in most other European countries, so the inclusion of Irish parties in the "left-wing" is only an approximation.
	www.aardvarkarticles.net /politics_49/left-wing_politics_1087.html (2865 words)

	Guide to all the weird and wonderful British Political Parties
		In 1992 the party leader, Lindi St.Clair, was about be bankrupted for £112,000 tax on prostitution earnings and this forced her out of the general election because, a) she had no money left for the 50 deposits needed (£25,000), and b), bankrupts are banned from standing.
		The party had fallen back out of the national poll ratings by the end of 1990 and suffered from splits in the early 1990s, but it did begin to win a firm base of support in local elections, particularly in Stroud and the student wards of Oxford.
		Mebyon Kernow are not a Cornish nationalist party.
	www.angelfire.com /apes/burning-icicles/british_politics.html (6769 words)

	BBC - Devon - devolution message board
		Not much maybe, but even the quarter of 1% that the Wessex Regionalists polled when they have stood in Devon is not the same as no support.
		However, I think all of this debate is going nowhere because I don't think the current government is willing to gives us anything except possibly a seven county region or for the situation to remain as it is. And from what I understand from my research, no-one is in favour of a seven county region.
		The Wessex regionalists have stood there several times, and received hundreds of votes on each occasion.
	www.bbc.co.uk /devon/have_your_say/devolution_07.shtml (2426 words)

	BLUE: Reviews
		He notes early on the fact that England's dominance in the union meant that to be Scots or Welsh in any cultural sense was to be intrinsically opposed to Englishness, a regionalist tendency that was difficult to avoid and that makes a stable union difficult to acheive.
		That policy, the policy of re-establishing the Union of the Crowns, is favoured by the Scottish National Party, but it is far from the purpose of the Labour government which has legislated for devolution.
		However, when a presumably informed politician, of whatever party, argues agianst it, it is fair to assume that he is being disingenuous.
	www.bluegreenearth.us /archive/reviews/2001-2/devo.html (4678 words)

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	THE WESSEX INFORMATION PAGE
		THE WESSEX SOCIETY is dedicated to preserving and developing the cultural and linguistic heritage of Wessex.
		THE WESSEX CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION is an all party group that is forwarding the exciting plans of all the people of WESSEX to have their own parliament, with powers equal to those of Scotland.
		Until borders are agreed with all the various regionalist groups in England WESSEX for our purposes consists of the counties of Somerset, Wiltshire, Dorset, Devon, Hampshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
	hometown.aol.co.uk /crackytown/myhomepage/newsletter.html (156 words)

	Tyr-Gwyr-Gweryn
		This movement has comprised such organisations as 'The Wessex Regionalist', 'The Council for the North', 'the Movement for Middle England', and others, which reject the concept of bureaucratically imposed regions from a non-identifying centre.
		As Lord Weymouth he contested the Westbury parliamentary constituency in February 1974 as a Wessex Regionalist, and thereby pioneered the concept of regional devolution in modern England, to complement long standing autonomy movements in Scotland, Wales and Cornwall.
		He subsequently joined the SDP because of its commitment to regionalism and on his accession to the House of Lords in 1994 took the Liberal Democrat whip, speaking on regionalism in the debate on the Queen's Speech in 19971 and again on the proposals for Regional Development Agencies in November 1998.
	www.kernowtgg.co.uk /devolve.html (678 words)

	UK general election 2005: candidates listed by party
		Actually, I detect 135 distinct party labels, but ten cases seem to be different labels used by the PA for the same party, though I may be mistaken about this.
		It may, indeed, be that the groups themselves have not been consistent in the names they have put on their nomination forms, or that different parties have put up joint candidates.
		This is particularly a problem with the English Democrats Party.
	www.psr.keele.ac.uk /area/uk/ge05/candidates.htm (307 words)

	MeR: The Wyvern Universe (Nick Xylas)
		The Wyvern Universe: Tolkien and the denormanisation of Wessex
		This was based on the standard map of the heptarchy drawn by Tudor antiquary John Speed and later adopted by both Thomas Hardy and the Wessex Journal to determine the extent of Wessex.
		I think it's just that Wessex cast a spell on me, whereas Mercia didn't (sorry, Mercians!) Besides, I'd much rather be involved with the Wessex Regionalists (emblem: a gold wyvern on a green background, hence the Wyvern Universe) than their Mercian equivalent, the aforementioned Movement For Middle England.
	alt-tolkien.com /r3wyvern.html (3235 words)

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		But my own purpose in standing was to place the theory of government which I was advocating firmly within the European context, and I obtained 1706 votes for my efforts.
		That was as far as I chose to take my Wessex Regionalist campaign.
		I did not want to become repetitive, by presenting myself as a candidate at all subsequent elections, with precisely the same message to deliver at the hustings.
	www.lordbath.co.uk /essays/essay7.htm (763 words)

	General Election Results 1885-1979
		Alliances Where several parties or individual candidates are in an electoral or political alliance they are grouped together.
		In 1931, the Independent Labour Party was still officially part of the Labour Party but refused to accept the Standing Orders of the Parliamentary Labour Party; in addition, several Labour candidates were members of the ILP but sponsored by local parties.
		Constitutionalists This label was used by a number of right-wing Liberals in the 1924 general election who wanted to distance themselves from the party’s temporary support for the Labour Government.
	www.election.demon.co.uk /geresults.html (687 words)

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		When I stood as a `Wessex Regionalist and European Federal Party' candidate in the Euro-election of 1979, in my campaign I was advocating a 24-point list of what was required for the well-being of `Wessex within a Federal Europe', (as the leaflet was entitled).
		11: Wessex and all other regions should receive a substantial tax rebate from such taxation revenue, apportioned in accordance with their per capita and per hectare rating as European Regions.
		17: The representatives from Wessex should seek to ally themselves with the representatives of those European Regions where farming is practised efficiently, asserting our mutual interests against regions where farming is practised inefficiently, or where the interests of agriculture as a whole are subordinated to industrial interests.
	www.lordbath.co.uk /essays/essay9.htm (751 words)

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