History

Description A collection of the tales about Cymdeithas yr Iaith campaigners on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the first Cymdeithas protest...

Description A volume which traces the history of Epynt and the people who lived there, particularly the events in 1939 and 1940 when 54 families we...

Description Horatio Clare re-tells six myths and legends of Wales’ celebrated regions of Pembrokeshire and Gwynedd, including Carew Castle, Pembrok...

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 ...

Description A series of essays, with biographical elements, plaited around the conception, history and theology and testimonies of Quakers today. T...

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 It was a period of Welsh politics that has become etched in the collective memory. The rise of a Welsh independence movement and the fi...

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 Biography of Joseph Jenkins (1818–98). Tregaron tenant farmer Jenkins was innovative and successful with an award for the best farm in ...

Description Place-Names of Montgomeryshire examines 900 place-names in the historic county of Montgomery (1536-1974) together with the southernmost...

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 Elfed Thomas, ex-headmaster of Pontrobert school, once wrote that Pontrobert was very much like heaven - you don't see the place until ...

ISBN: 9781912173051 Publication Date November 2017Publisher: Gwasg y Bwthyn, Caernarfon Format: Paperback, 300x130 mm, 368 pages Language: Welsh A ...

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 A thorough analysis of the Plaid Cymru Party of Wales. This is the first book to discuss the development of the political thought of Pl...

Description A study of the Rebecca movement's fight against high taxation and poverty in nineteenth-century Wales. In nineteenth-century Wales, a p...

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 This ground-breaking volume records the conceptual development of Plaid Cymru from its inception in the winter 1924-5 until the establi...

Description The history of Richard Berwyn Jones who was one of the first group to travel on the 'Mimosa'. He was very prominent in his efforts to e...

ISBN: 9781786834454 Publication Date July 2019Publisher: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press, Cardiff Format: Paperback, 216x138 mm, ...

Description St Mary's Church in Strata Florida has been a celebrated place of worship for centuries. This book offers an understanding of the uniqu...

Description Sarn Helen – Helen’s Causeway – is the old Roman Road that runs from the south of Wales to the north. As Tom walks the route, sometimes...

Description Signed by the author, Penri Roberts. Cwmni Theatr Maldwyn was founded in preparation for the 1981 Machynlleth National Eisteddfod. Fort...

Description Signed by the author. John Parker held the living of two parishes either side of the Welsh border, first at Llanmerewig near Newtown an...