History

Description A fascinating exploration of the history of the country houses of Herefordshire, Shropshire and the Welsh Borders. Details ISBN: 978139...

ISBN: 9781784613303 Publication Date December 2016Publisher: Y Lolfa, Tal-y-bont Format: Paperback, 249x170 mm, 400 pages Language: Welsh From Ivor...

Description In the dictionary, a 'hero' is described as a very brave person or someone who possesses incredible powers. Heroes are people who accom...

Description A volume that declares that the Welsh national flag is more than just an image and colours on a pole. As the use of the dragon reaches ...

ISBN: 9781845276546 Publication Date April 2018Publisher: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, Llanrwst Format: Paperback, 150x155 mm, 208 pages Language: Welsh Ma...

Description Take a journey through five decades in the story of Mudiad Meithrin that provides Welsh-medium Early Years provision and is one of Wale...

Description A substantial collection of brand new and original prayers by Elfed ap Nefydd Roberts, comprising over 400 prayers prepared by the auth...

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 A Biblical exposition - prepared originally by Gareth Lloyd Jones - throwing light on the life and work of Moses of the Old Testament D...

Description A Biblical exposition - prepared originally by Gareth Lloyd Jones - throwing light on the life and work of Moses of the Old Testament. ...

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...

ISBN: 9781845276829 Publication Date June 2019Publisher: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, Llanrwst Illustrated by Chris Lliff Format: Paperback, 210x210 mm, 84...

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 Something of hero of early Celtic studies, Lhuyd was a Welsh naturalist, botanist, linguist, antiquary and geographer. From 1697 he mad...

ISBN: 9781859944950 Publication Date February 2019Publisher: Cyhoeddiadau'r Gair, Bangor Edited by Aled Davies Format: Paperback, 208x147 mm, 212 ...

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

Entertaining Mid Wales & Beyond by Alan Crowe is a book that chronicles the stories of the many and varied entertainers to emerge from or work...

ISBN: 9781845275594 (1845275594)Publication Date April 2016Publisher: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, LlanrwstFormat: Paperback, 150x155 mm, 128 pagesLanguage...

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...

A publication by Emyr Davies, Llysmwyn, containing portraits of local characters from the Banw Valley and poetry written in their honour.  

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...

ISBN: 9781850492535 Publication Date August 2017Publisher: Gwasg Bryntirion Press, Bridgend Format: Paperback, 229x152 mm, 112 pages Language:Welsh...

ISBN: 9781859948736 Publication Date June 2019Publisher: Cyhoeddiadau'r Gair, Bangor Format: Paperback, 302 pages Language: Welsh A collection of b...

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 ...