History

Description Oakhurst: the story of a country house, the latest in a series of books and booklets on the history of Oswestry by John Pryce-Jones, ha...

Description Bridges have always been required to ease the passage of people and goods from the earliest of times. In this book are described steppi...

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 Philip Hume's book provides a richly-illustrated history of the medieval Mortimer family of Wigmore in north Herefordshire, with a focu...

Description Oswestry: a local history is based upon articles written by the author for Oswestry & Border Counties Advertizer, the Country Quest...

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 This book traces the remarkable and sometimes hazardous rise of a Welsh family of the Anglo-Welsh borderland, from relatively humble or...

Description The story of one woman’s life in rural mid Wales at the turn of the 20th c. Despite poverty and setbacks, she climbs the ladder to beco...

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

Description The forgotten Manor of Talerddig reached along the watershed of Montgomeryshire from Pont Llogel in the north to Clywedog in the south....

ISBN: 9781871184310 Publication Date October 2008Publisher: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Aberystwyth Format: ...

Description A brief popular history of the Welsh protest against the Investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales in Caernarfon in 1969. Placar...

Description A collection of letters written by John Barnard Jenkins while in prison for masterminding MAC's Welsh bombing campaign - reprint of the...

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 Featuring illustrations by Jackie Morris, an immersive, evocative non-fictional journey through Wales and a revelatory meditation on th...

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

Description The Sorry Tale of the Mignonette tells the tale (through poetry, dialogue and historical records) of the author's great-grandmother's c...

Description The discovery in the 1970s of a number of boxes containing early glass plate negatives of Montgomery provided the impetus for this long...

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

Description Sara John presents us with an eclectic collection of tantalising tales originating from the author's childhood in South Wales during th...

Description The Welsh in North Staffordshire is a new local history book that uniquely examines Welsh migration to all parts of North Staffordshire...

Description This volume describes the development of religious thought in Wales between 1760 and 1900. Although the emphasis is on religious though...

Description Change intrudes into the remote valleys of the Black Mountains. What will happen to life there, and to grieving farmer's daughter Beth,...

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

Description The story of two brothers in World War II. Christopher Burney was a secret agent tortured by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration ca...

Description This fully illustrated volume contains a selection from the many thousands of works spanning more than seven hundred years, with short ...

Description The Turning Tide is a hymn to a sea passage of world-historical importance. Combining social and cultural history, nature-writing, trav...

Description Collection of 43 essays vividly outlining aspects of Rhondda experience and contrasting life there as it used to be and as it is now. I...

Description From the very beginnings of Wales, its people have defined themselves against their large neighbour. Wales - England's Colony? shows th...

Description A comprehensive account of the part played by Wales in WWII and the conflict's impact on every area of the country and all involved: ci...

 Description Discover 366 fun and surprising stories about Welsh history and culture that most history books leave out – each linked to a specific ...

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

Description In the early 1900's north-east Wales was a dangerous place for women - Suffragist's meetings descended into near riot, or in some cases...

Description The region around Oswestry in north-west Shropshire is a remarkable corner of England in which, for much of the last thousand years, We...

Description The Welsh at War trilogy is the culmination of over twelve years of painstaking research by the author into the Welsh men and infantry ...

Description A Welsh County at War is not a military history of horror in the trenches, but a social and cultural history of life in one Welsh count...