Books for adults (2)

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 Spanning three centuries and telling the story of three women who come to 'share' a house in Denbigh. It opens at Lleweni, just outside...

Description Written by the foremost expert on Strata Florida and drawing on the latest archaeological research, this is a concise and accessible in...

Description Matthew Yeomans seeks to answer these questions as he walks more t han 300 miles through the ancient and modern forests of Wales, los i...

Description This volume explores the various means by which historians write history. This is an introduction to historiography - the study of wri...

Description Biography of Dic Penderyn, hanged for stabbing a soldier after the 1831 Merthyr Rising – a crime later confessed to by someone else – a...

Description The Little Book of Welsh Culture is a fast-paced, fact-filled journey through the cultural heritage of Wales, exploring the rich histor...

Description The history of Tregaron and surrounding area - the people, the places and local stories. Includes pictures. Details ISBN: 9781800992634...

Description A volume that explores the religious responses of the American Welsh settlers to slavery during the period 1838-68. By using the Americ...

Description Welsh experiences from both sides of the Falklands/Malvinas War. Translated for the first time, Ioan Roberts's vivid oral history recor...

Description This book is based on a collection of papers written between 1930 and 1953 by Syr Ifan and some of yr Urdd's Central Staff to a gentlem...

Description A study of the background and contribution of Twm Carnabwth, one of the leaders of the Becca movement in west Wales in the mid-19th cen...

Description In 2020, the doors of Tŷ Mawr Wybrnant were closed by the National Trust, who are responsible for the building, and the job of warden o...

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 A selection of folklore, myths and ghost stories from Wales. Readers will find it both informative and entertaining. There are stories ...

Description A Little Gay History of Wales examines the lives, cultures and politics of ordinary LGBT men and women from the medieval period to the ...

Description Oswestry: Parish, Church and People is based on a series of articles prepared by the author for St Oswald's monthly parish magazine in ...

Description In A Second Oswestry Miscellany, John Pryce-Jones considers a wide variety of aspects of Oswestry's history, from king Oswald through t...

Description The Holy Dee, ever changing, ever constant. From her open-mouthed estuary, she follows a man-made channel, through Roman founded Cheste...

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 substantial collection of brand new and original prayers by Elfed ap Nefydd Roberts, comprising over 400 prayers prepared by the auth...

Description The Lost Lines series documents a lost age of steam-train travel which thrived from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century. The...

Description The exciting story of the Welsh immigrants and their descendants who made a disproportionate contribution to the creation and growth of...

Description An extremely comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to the history and evolution of the castle under Wales' native rulers (c.1066-1283)...

Description Ieuan Morris' striking images and fascinating accompanying text throw new light on one of Wales' most stunning regions, leading readers...

Description The history of Manod, Blaenau Ffestiniog in the 1930s - the people, their interests, their work and way of life. The volume traces the ...

Description The history of the Welsh love of hymn singing, and of how hymns and the religious movements and revivals of which they were part fired ...

Description This book is designed to support poor readers by giving them overtly adult material but where the language has been calculated using a ...

Description Dafydd ap Gwilym is Wales's most famous poet, who had an extremely rich vocabulary. This book shows how his poetry can be appreciated t...

Description A magazine about country life in Wales. Includes articles and stories about life and customs of the past, folklore and reminiscences of...

  Description Any national flag carries a high emotional charge and comes with both myth and historical fact attached; but this book is more wide-r...

Description A volume that declares that the Welsh national flag is more than just an image and colours on a pole. As the use of the dragon reaches ...

ISBN: 9781783160143 Publication Date January 2014Publisher: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press, Cardiff Format: Paperback, 234x156 m...