Local history

Description A pamphlet describing the history of the Welsh language nationally, regionally and locally.  The local situation reflects the situation...

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

Description A pamphlet describing the history of the Welsh language nationally, regionally and locally.  The local situation reflects the situation...

Description At the opening of Llanfyllin’s first secondary school in 1900, the local rector defended education against those who opposed its spread...

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

Description An upside down book for secondary school pupils. The book examines and discusses the Vyrnwy Valley area from two directions - from the ...

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

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 An Oswestry Miscellany comprises twenty-five chapters, each focussed on a specific aspect of Oswestry's history, including some fascina...

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

Description For nearly 500 years the Marcher lordships and their lords were at the centre of events that affected the history of England and Wales,...

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

Description A selection of the carols sung on Mayday mornings in Wales four hundred years ago by joyful throngs to rouse families, wish them well, ...

Description A fascinating illustrated account of the industrial heritage of the town and county borough of Wrexham across the centuries. Details IS...

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 Wilfred Owen: Poet of Oswestry provides a clear and concise introduction to the renowned World War One poet who was born in Oswestry in...

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