History

Description This is the first volume to portray the Welsh countryside in colour. It is a hardback, coffee table book, comprising 120 black and whit...

Description Cymru Gudd is a photographic volume about bygone eras, comprising images and stories about interesting locations in Wales - inactive bu...

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 Trawsfynydd military camp from 1903 to 1959 is captured in this illustrated, compact book. The full story of the loc...

Description Rome had marched from Viroconium to the shore facing the island of the Druids. Now came the time of slaughter and destruction of a peop...

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

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

Description A magazine published twice a year by Cymdeithas Hanes Amaethyddiaeth Cymru (Wales's agricultural history society). It includes articles...

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 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...

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 A volume that evaluates the fragile and heroic history of 'Y Cylch Catholig', the society that promotes Catholic worship through the me...

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

Description In this volume, for the first time, the story of ethnic minorities in Welsh culture is discussed. Ethnic diversity is interpreted from...

Description The history of Tregaron and surrounding area - the people, the places and local stories. Includes pictures. Details ISBN: 9781800992146...

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

Description A fascinating and informative volume sure of wide appeal, being an adaptation of Ifor ap Glyn's 2017 radio series of the same name, pr...

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...