History

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

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...

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...

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

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 ...

Description A Hardy Breed is a collection of 120 black and white photographs celebrating shepherding and sheep farming in mid and north Wales. An i...

ISBN: 9781786833471 Publication Date November 2018Publisher: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press, Cardiff Format: Paperback, 216x138 ...

Description There are so many amazing stories associated with the ancient pubs of Wales: some of them true, some of them exaggerated and some of th...

Description A new version of the magisterial volume on Welsh history, with information extending from the ice-age to the current period. Includes a...

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

Description The first detailed study of Thomas Rees' background and the part he played in the mid-19th century Rebecca Riots in west Wales. Events ...

ISBN: 9781912631070 Publication Date June 2019Publisher: Y Lolfa, Tal-y-bont Format: Hardback, 242x160 mm, 384 pages Language: English Authorised b...

Description Fascinating volume of history, shedding light on the lead mining industry in Ceredigion and shipping from Aberystwyth, through the stor...

Description Hugh Jones was the last traditional shepherd of the upper Tywi valley. His memoirs recalls traditions and customs that have long vanish...

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

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 This volume reveals the long and dramatic history of one of Wales's most popular towns, from the arrival of its first visitors, twelve ...

Description Rhys ap Gruffydd stands out as a prince of unusual talent, vision and insight. A native ruler, he was an astute politician, a zealous r...

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