History

Description Captain Dafydd Jones died in Mametz Wood in 1916, but his mother, Margaret Jones, kept all his letters, until her death. This is a uniq...

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 From Oswestry Life magazine: A forgotten man is coming back to life in Llanfyllin. A chance find during a house clearance produced a se...

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 A pamphlet describing the history of the Welsh language nationally, regionally and locally.  The local situation reflects the situation...

Description David Lloyd Owen introduces us to the breadth of travellers' tales from a mysterious and absorbing country in a fascinating compendium....

Description ♥ English Book of the Month: February 2021 1904: 21 year-old Ellen has been summoned back from her new life in New Jersey, to the famil...

Description An Oswestry Miscellany comprises twenty-five chapters, each focussed on a specific aspect of Oswestry's history, including some fascina...

Description The ancient woods of south-east Wales are treasures of a rich landscape. Describing the geology, history and flora of many individual w...

Description A fascinating bilingual multi-author book which shares the amazing story of the 7 mile petition organised by women from Wales to be sen...

Description A volume published to celebrate Professor Gwynedd O. Pierce's hundreth birthday in 2021.The volume contains 13 Welsh articles and 7 in ...

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 Visual culture has long been a vital component in the creation and dissemination of this prevalent national brand. The Art of Music des...

Description A novel centred on a headstrong working-class girl in 18th-century north Wales. Peggin is a maid to the infamous Ladies of Llangollen, ...

Description A few moments before eight o'clock on the morning of 4th April, 1862, Richard Rowlands, or Dic Rolant as he was called, husband, father...

Description A novel set in a rural community in North Wales in the aftermath of the Second World War. Three siblings, all with hidden motivation, s...

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 Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change, a vital history of Wales as ...

Description This is the first study of the early years of one of Wales's most important cultural organisations – S4C. Through a detailed study of m...

ISBN: 9781845276911 Publication Date June 2019Publisher: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, Llanrwst Format: Paperback, 215x138 mm, 304 pages Language: Welsh Fol...

Description In this volume, Rhys Mwyn chooses a dozen sites of archaeological and/or historical interest in north Wales, being hidden pearls that ...

Description A volume that looks at the past 100 years in the history of Urdd Gobaith Cymru (The Welsh League of Youth) while also looking forward t...

Description This book tells the compelling and revealing story of the women’s movement in modern Wales. A panoramic sweep takes the reader on a jou...

Description From the first student register in 1872 and early x-ray equipment to future foods and space exploration, discover fascinating stories f...

Description A short history of one of Ancient Britain's most enigmatic civilisations. The first in-depth history of the Celts in Britain, from one ...

ISBN: 9781845275440 Publication Date November 2016Publisher: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, Llanrwst Format: Paperback, 215x138 mm, 366 pages Language: Welsh...

Description Following recent enhanced interest in place-names, Rhian Parry walks the fields of the Ardudwy area to reveal the secrets behind the na...

Description Before Charles became King, he was Prince of Wales. It was a role he took more seriously than any predecessor of the modern British mon...

Description A book that includes over 60 folk tales and a great deal of information about Welsh folk customs, according to area, including Cantre'r...

Description The history of the Wylfa area and its inhabitiants. Master storyteller, Reverend Emlyn Richards focuses on the homes lost and families ...

ISBN: 9781848518650 Publication Date October 2018Publisher: Gwasg Gomer, Llandysul Format: Hardback, 222x145 mm, 608 pages Language: Welsh To many,...

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

ISBN: 9781845242572 Publication Date February 2017Publisher: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, Llanrwst Format: Paperback, 150x155 mm, 128 pages Language: Engli...

Description A journey from Tywyn to Bardsey through the words and the magical photography of Jean Napier. Details ISBN: 9781845245122 Publication ...

ISBN: 9781845242824 Publication Date: July 2018 Publisher: Gwasg Carreg GwalchFormat: Paperback, 150x155 mm, 128 pages Language: English Before th...