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Description The history of Ukrainian town Hughesovka, a mining/steel town founded in the 1870s by Welsh entrepreneur John Hughes and 70 Welsh worke...

Description This book explores the history of Wales under the Tudor and Stuart monarchs. It tackles subjects such as the Union of Wales and England...

Description Something of hero of early Celtic studies, Lhuyd was a Welsh naturalist, botanist, linguist, antiquary and geographer. From 1697 he mad...

Description Marked by the sometimes scandalous life experiences of its author, Ellen, Countess of Castle Howel (1794) is an insightful, often humor...

 Description Enchanted Wales is an invitation to voyage through the key stories of Welsh mythic literature, exploring not just their medieval texts...

Description  Entertaining Mid Wales & Beyond contains 120,000 words telling the story of the many and varied entertainers to emerge from or wor...

ISBN: 9781845275594 (1845275594)Publication Date April 2016Publisher: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, LlanrwstFormat: Paperback, 150x155 mm, 128 pagesLanguage...

Description Before 1990 no-one knew that over a thousand Welsh legal documents were filed at the Welsh National Library. These probate documents co...

A publication by Emyr Davies, Llysmwyn, containing portraits of local characters from the Banw Valley and poetry written in their honour.  

Description Insightful, first-hand accounts of refugees fleeing to Wales to escape Nazism in the 1930s and 40s. A popular topic, this book appeals ...

 Description In The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts, renowned folklorists Delyth Badder and Mark Norman present an intriguing and comprehensive selection...

Description Mathematics is an integral component of Welsh culture. In this book, the history of twelve mathematicians born in Wales or who worked i...

Description Wales is a land of castles. The best known are those built in the 13th century under King Edward I to defeat the native princes, but th...

Description A study of the thirty-five libraries built by Andrew Carnegie in Wales as an illustration of his world-wide commitment to the public li...

Description At the opening of Llanfyllin’s first secondary school in 1900, the local rector defended education against those who opposed its spread...

Description The hitherto untold story of a civilian tented hospital, raised by public subscription in Wales. It travelled to South Africa in 1900 a...

ISBN: 9781850492535 Publication Date August 2017Publisher: Gwasg Bryntirion Press, Bridgend Format: Paperback, 229x152 mm, 112 pages Language:Welsh...

ISBN: 9781859948736 Publication Date June 2019Publisher: Cyhoeddiadau'r Gair, Bangor Format: Paperback, 302 pages Language: Welsh A collection of b...

Description This book examines masculinity and femininity in Wales across modern Welsh history. Contributors question what it meant to be a man and...

Description This book argues that industrial patriarchy in South Wales established an exclusive though damaging form of structural masculine confor...

Description An overview of Welsh and British history from 1450–1720 providing a new assessment of Welsh gentility. The first full-length published ...

ISBN: 9781912631193 Publication Date November 2019Publisher: Y Lolfa, Tal-y-bont Format: Paperback, 200x212 mm, 168 pages Language: English A book...

Description No artist has been more committed to recording and interpreting such environments as places of industry and the gaunt and mournful rema...

Description John Parker held the living of two parishes either side of the Welsh border, first at Llanmerewig near Newtown and later at Llanyblodwe...

Description Analytical history of the Church in Wales' contribution to Welsh literature, history and culture. Details

Description Nuclear technology is an amazing feat of human ingenuity, yet with its incredibly destructive power and the highly radioactive waste th...

Description The Golden Valley is an exploration and a celebration of a small south Wales valley. The site of ancient tombs and settlements, its rur...

Description A new look at the relationship between art and literature in Wales during the Victorian Age, revealing the original and astute vision o...

Description Contains the only full published English translation of the medieval Welsh bardic grammars and offers insight into the development of W...

Description This factual thriller details a scandal which has been described as one of the most widespread and significant miscarriages of justice ...

Description The life and career of forgotten Welsh veterinary surgeon, medic and adventurer  Griffith Evans, who discovered that blood parasites ca...

Description Medieval gardens usually rate very few pages in the garden history books. The general perception is still of small gardens in the corne...

Description This new edition of 'Hands Off Wales' addresses the campaign of militant activism which Wales witnessed between 1963 and 1969, showing ...