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St Fagans Castle
The Architectural and Social History of a Welsh Country House
Inbunden, 2026
348 kr
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This is the first comprehensive study of St Fagans Castle, an Elizabethan country house in Cardiff which is of twofold significance as a Grade I-listed building, and home to St Fagans National Museum of History since 1948. The house was built by a local lawyer named Dr John Gibbon in about 1580, …
Who Speaks for Wales?
Nation, Culture, Identity
Av Raymond Williams, Daniel G. Williams
Häftad, 2003
280 kr
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Who Speaks for Wales? is the first collection of Raymond Williams' writings on Welsh culture, literature, history and politics. It brings together material that has long been overlooked by commentators on his work, and emphasises both the centrality of his Welshness to his work as a whole, and the …
Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd
Bardd-Dywysog
Häftad, 2009
148 kr
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Focuses on Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd, the poet and prince who inspired other poets, including Goronwy Owen, Iolo Morganwg and T Gwynn Jones.
Freedom Fighters
Wales's Forgotten War, 1963-1993
Häftad, 2008
309 kr
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"Freedom Fighters" covers a violent episode in recent Welsh history shunned or relegated to the sidelines by more conventional historians. By drawing together various sources, the author has produced a highly compelling narrative of a period when a group of Welshmen declared war on England with …
Echoes to the Amen
Essays After R.S.Thomas
Häftad, 2009
263 kr
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A collection of critical essays dealing with the work of R S Thomas. It presents fresh readings of the poet's central preoccupations as well as discussions of hitherto neglected themes, and examines the ways in which Thomas negotiated painful cultural, spiritual and emotional tensions.
History of Independent Television in Wales
Häftad, 2010
386 kr
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Despite the growing body of work on the media in Wales, very little exists on the history of commercial television in Wales. This book seeks to address this imbalance by tracing the growth and development of ITV in Wales and assessing its contribution to the life of the nation. ITV has been a …
Slave Wales
The Welsh and Atlantic Slavery, 1660-1850
Av Chris Evans
Häftad, 2010
180 kr
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Atlantic slavery does not loom large in the traditional telling of Welsh history. Yet Wales, like many regions of Europe, was deeply affected by the forced migration of captive Africans. This book looks at Slave Wales between 1660 and 1850. It casts light on episodes such as Welsh involvement with …
Mothers, Wives and Changing Lives
Women in Mid-twentieth Century Rural Wales
Av Brian J. Brown, Sally Baker
Häftad, 2011
227 kr
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Despite the great changes that the twentieth century brought to the lives and roles of the women of rural Wales, there has been scant attention paid to the topic by social scientists and historians, even within Wales. "Mothers, Wives and Changing Lives" rectifies that mistake, drawing on a wealth …
J. E. Lloyd and the Creation of Welsh History
Renewing a Nation's Past
Av Huw Pryce
Häftad, 2011
309 kr
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This is the first book on John Edward Lloyd (1861-1947), widely regarded as the founder of the modern academic study of Welsh history. Published to mark the centenary of Lloyd's most important achievement, "A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest" (1911), this …
Ladies of Gregynog
Av Eirene White
Häftad, 2011
91 kr
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Eirene White’s The Ladies of Gregynog tells the story of Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, inheritors of great wealth at the end of the nineteenth century, and unique among their wealthy contemporaries in the early twentieth century. The two sisters devoted their large fortune to fostering the …
Robert Owen and his Legacy
Av Chris Williams, Noel Thompson m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
341 kr
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J. F. C. Harrison has written that 'for each age there is a new view of Mr Owen', which is proof of the fertility and continuing relevance of his ideas. Not just in Britain and America but today around the world anti-poverty campaigners, birth-controllers, collectivists, communitarians, …
Cymru'r Gyfraith
Sylwadau ar Hunaniaeth Gyfreithiol
Av R. Parry
Häftad, 2012
276 kr
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An entertaining and readable discussion of some of the most challenging and controversial topics in the current Welsh law.
Women's Writing and Muslim Societies
The Search for Dialogue, 1920-present
Av Sharif Gemie
Häftad, 2012
371 kr
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Women's Writing and Muslim Societies looks at the rise in works concerning Muslim societies by both western and Muslim women - from pioneering female travellers like Freya Stark and Edith Wharton in the early twentieth century, whose accounts of the Orient were usually playful and humorous, to the …
Secret Sins
Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920
Av David Davies, David Russell Davies
Häftad, 2012
294 kr
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Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition of his very successful book, Secret Sins. Behind the facade of idyllic rural life, there was a twilight world of mental illness, suicide, crime, vicious assaults, …
Ysgrifau ar Theatr a Pherfformio
Häftad, 2013
159 kr
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This innovative collection of essays in the field of Theatre and Performance Studies in Welsh represents some of the key discussions in the discipline in recent years.
Search for the Nile's Source
The Ruined Reputation of John Petherick, Nineteenth-Century Welsh Explorer
Häftad, 2013
119 kr
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The source of the Nile had long eluded and tormented explorers, and John Hanning Speke's discovery of Lake Victoria in 1858 elevated him to the pantheon of heroes of African exploration, alongside Livingstone and Stanley. But the part played by the Welsh mining engineer John Petherick in the …
Spiritual Pilgrim
Reassessment of the Life of the Countess of Huntingdon
Av Edwin Welch
Häftad, 2013
196 kr
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Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, was the only woman to take an active and independent part in the Methodist Revival of the 18th century. She was converted in 1739, at the age of 32, and became a close friend of Charles Wesley - a friendship which continued despite her conversion to Calvinistic …
Llên yr Uchelwyr
Hanes Beirniadol Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg 1300-1525
Häftad, 2014
509 kr
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Beirdd yr Uchelwyr' in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are considered to be the pinnacle of the bardic tradition in Wales in the Middle Ages. This book gives a comprehensive look at the period's literature in all its aspects. Attention is given to masters of the cywydd, such as Dafydd ap …
From the Cradle to the Coalmine
The Story of Children in Welsh Mines
Häftad, 2014
236 kr
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It is widely believed that the employment of children underground in coal mines ended in 1842. This book, in contrast, shows that young people remained an important part of the workforce up until the virtual demise of the industry in the late twentieth century. The Children's Employment Commission …
Crefydd, Cenedlgarwch a’r Wladwriaeth
John Penry (1563-1593) a Phiwiritaniaeth Gynnar
Häftad, 2014
257 kr
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A volume about John Penry and his contribution to the growth of Puritanism in England in the Sixteenth Century.
With Dust Still in His Throat
The Writing of B. L. Coombes, the Voice of a Working Miner
Häftad, 2014
193 kr
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The real history of the mines ought to be written by a man still at work underground. The dust should still be in his throat as he was writing-it seemed to me-then it would be authentic. Despite my searching, I knew of no man who answered this description.' At the end of a detailed, seemingly …
Trioedd Ynys Prydein
The Triads of the Island of Britain
Häftad, 2016
427 kr
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Rachel Bromwich's magisterial edition of Trioedd Ynys Prydein has long won its place as a classic of Celtic studies. This revised edition shows the author's continued mastery of the subject, including a new preface by Morfydd Owen, and will be essential reading for Celticists and for those …
Petticoat Heroes
Gender, Culture and Popular Protest in the Rebecca Riots
Häftad, 2015
309 kr
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Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2016The wave of unrest which took place in 1840s Wales, known as ‘Rebeccaism’ or ‘the Rebecca riots’, stands out as a success story within the generally gloomy annals of popular struggle and defeat. The story is remembered in vivid …
Count Us In
How to Make Maths Real for All of Us
Av Gareth Ffowc Roberts, Gareth Roberts
Häftad, 2016
139 kr
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Mathematics, like language, is a universal experience. Every society counts and is empowered by its ability to count and to measure. The mathematical processes developed within various cultures differ widely, and Count Us In explores these cultural links, drawing examples from the author’s personal …
Shakespeare’s Settings and a Sense of Place
Av Ralph Berry
Häftad, 2016
290 kr
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Shakespeare’s use of location governs his dramas. Some he was personally familiar with, like Windsor; some he knew through his imagination, like Kronborg Castle (‘Elsinore’); some matter because Shakespeare’s plays were performed there, like Hampton Court and the Great Hall of the Middle Temple. …
George Whitefield Tercentenary Essays
Av William Gibson, Thomas W Smith
Häftad, 2015
371 kr
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This special issue of The Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture comprises some of the papers delivered at the ‘George Whitefield after Three Hundred Years’ International Conference held in June 2014 at Pembroke College, Oxford, commemorating the tercentenary of George Whitefield’s …
Welsh Life of St. David
Av D. Simon Evans, D. Simon Evans
Häftad, 2016
181 kr
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This scholarly edition of The Welsh Life of St David presents the medieval text of the Life of one of the early Christian missionaries of west Wales. More than one recension of the Latin Life written by Rhigyfarch was produced between the end of the eleventh century and the emergence of the …
From Depression to Devolution
Economy and Government in Wales, 1934-2006
Häftad, 2017
259 kr
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Throughout the twentieth century, Wales underwent rapid and far-reaching economic upheavals on such a scale that few avoided their impacts – from recessions, war, changing fortunes within the iconic steel and coal industries, the rise and decline of manufacturing, as well as the gradual rise to …
Discovering Dylan Thomas
A Companion to the Collected Poems and Notebook Poems
Av John Goodby
Häftad, 2017
427 kr
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Discovering Dylan Thomas is a companion to Dylan Thomas’s published and notebook poems. It includes hitherto-unseen material contained in the recently-discovered fifth notebook, alongside poems, drafts and critical material including summaries of the critical reception of individual poems. The …
Memoir and Identity in Welsh Patagonia
Voices from a Settler Community in Argentina
Häftad, 2017
386 kr
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This literary investigation of identity construction in twentieth-century Welsh Patagonia breaks new ground by looking at the Welsh community in Chubut not as a quaint anomaly, but in its context as an integral part of Argentina. Its focus is on historicising and problematising the adoption of the …
