History

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 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 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...

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

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 unique perspective on the 1984–85 UK Miners' Strike from a husband-and-wife team who reported on it in person at the time. Press phot...

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...

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

Description Much less known than the slate industry in Snowdonia are the metal mines. But these, too, greatly contributed to the economy of the are...