Michaelmas term Michaelmas term Michaelmas term is the first academic term of the academic year in a number of English-speaking universities and schools in the northern hemisphere, especially in the United Kingdom. Michaelmas term derives its name from the Feast of St Michael and All Angels, which falls on 29 September. The term runs from September or October to Christmas. The term is also the name of the first of four terms into which the legal year is divided by the Courts of England and Wales and the Courts of Northern Ireland. While the name is not used in the legal systems
Welsh literature in English literary success; though gradually, beginning in 1937, Welsh writing in English received encouragement from Welsh-based literary and critical journals, initially "Wales", published by Keidrych Rhys in three intermittent series between 1937 and 1960. Next came the "Welsh Review", published by Gwyn Jones, first in 1939 and then between 1944 and 1948. (See also "Life and Letters Today", which between 1938–50 contained works by and about many Welsh writers in English.) An early work of the first wave of Anglo-Welsh writers was "The Withered Root" (1927) by Rhys Davies (1901–78) from the Rhondda Valley. While he probably wrote more fiction about