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£16.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781783788095 | ISBN 10: 1783788097
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 alone, sometimes in company, he describes the changing landscape around him and explores the political, cult ... more
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£24.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781786839671 | ISBN 10: 1786839679
Aneurin Bevan is a revered figure in Welsh and British politics, celebrated for his role as the founder of one of the country's most cherished institutions, the National Health Service. As a result, he is continuously invoked, quoted widely, and is p ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781912905683 | ISBN 10: 191290568x
Insightful, first-hand accounts of refugees fleeing Nazism.
A popular history telling the stories of people who found refuge in Wales from Nazism in the 1930s and 1940s.
Finding Refuge will resonate with those who have personal ex ... more
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£8.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786837660 | ISBN 10: 1786837668
Down the centuries, poets have provided Wales with a window onto its own distinctive world.
This book gives a sense of the view seen through that special window in twelve illustrated poems, each bringing very different periods and aspects o ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786834805 | ISBN 10: 1786834804
A Little Gay History of Wales tells the compelling story of Welsh LGBT life from the Middle Ages to the present day.
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Drawing on a rich array of archival sources from across Britain, together with oral testimony and material culture, this pionee ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786830128 | ISBN 10: 1786830124
Written as an act of protest in a Welsh-speaking community in north-west Wales, Why Wales Never Was combines a devastating analysis of the historical failure of Welsh nationalism with an apocalyptic vision of a non-Welsh future. It is the ‘progress ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786062918 | ISBN 10: 1786062917
They did so in the midst of the 1984 miners' strike - the most bitter and divisive dispute for more than half a century, and in one of the most turbulent periods in modern British history.
In the 1980s Margaret Thatcher's hardcore social an ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781783167883 | ISBN 10: 1783167882
The 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 and compelling ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781783162376 | ISBN 10: 1783162376
The first of two volumes on the social history of Wales in the period 1870–1948, People, Places and Passions concentrates on the social events and changes which created and forged Wales into the mid-twentieth century.
This volume considers ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781783160563 | ISBN 10: 178316056x
For decades, otherwise highly respected figures in Welsh life have repeatedly claimed that Welsh nationalists sympathised with Fascism during the dark days of the 1930s and the Second World War. In this path-breaking book, Wales's leading polit ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781783160198 | ISBN 10: 1783160195
The existence of the Welsh-language can come as a surprise to those who assume that English is the foundation language of Britain. However, J. R. R. Tolkien described Welsh as the 'senior language of the men of Britain'. Visitors from outside Wales m ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780708326718 | ISBN 10: 0708326714
The book focuses on the Jewish communities in Cardiff, Swansea and the South Wales valleys in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, looking at their everyday lives and also more dramatic and sensational events such as the Tredegar Riots in 1911 and ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781445614984 | ISBN 10: 1445614987
If it had not been for Owain Glyndwr’s 15-year struggle against overwhelming odds, the Welsh would not have survived as Europe’s oldest nation. His war is the defining era in the history of Wales. Yet Glyndwr is hardly known – a cultured, literate wa ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781445608082 | ISBN 10: 1445608081
The Welsh: The Biography tells the story of the remarkable survival of the oldest nation and oldest language in Europe. We see how the four original major Celtic tribes are still reflected in the location of Britain’s four oldest cathedrals, and how ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906784102 | ISBN 10: 1906784108
Mornings were used to teach the basic three Rs and to progress us through our Janet and John readers. I only learned much later, in my thirties, how limited Janet's activites had been in comparison to her brother John's and how some scholars linked t ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781870206907 | ISBN 10: 1870206908
This innovative and ground-breaking anthology covers a century of Welsh women's political writings, from the 1830s to the 1930s; its diverse contributors include female Chartists, patriotic defenders of Wales and its language, feminists working for w ... more
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£3.00 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780851247465 | ISBN 10: 0851247466
Henry Richard, the Apostle of Peace, was a Congregational minister, Welsh Member of Parliament 1868-88, and Secretary of the Peace Society (1848-84). He was elected Member of Parliament for the Merthyr boroughs in Wales in 1868 and became an influen ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780752441283 | ISBN 10: 0752441280
Independent Wales was defined in the centuries after the Romans withdrew from Britain in AD 410. The Welsh achieved this despite Irish and Viking raids and colonisation, despite the growing power of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and despite frequent and ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780140284751 | ISBN 10: 0140284753
Stretching from the Ice Ages to the present day, this masterful account traces the political, social and cultural history of the land that has come to be called Wales. Spanning prehistoric hill forts and Roman ruins to the Reformation, the Industrial ... more
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£5.95 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781901231823 | ISBN 10: 1901231828
James Maxwell traces the life and times of his grandfather, who was a part of the Welsh non-conformist master mariner tradition. It includes many fascinating tales of sailing the high seas in the nineteenth century. ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780708318164 | ISBN 10: 0708318169
Many nations were involved in the Spanish Civil War, but in Wales it retained a special significance, representing a heroic saga of mythical resonance. Wales and the Spanish Civil War brings a rigorous and critical analysis to bear upon this hal ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780140274844 | ISBN 10: 0140274847
For just a few years, the fifteenth-century rebel leader Owain Glyndwr seized control of Wales from its English overlords. Yet dreams of Welsh independence have never been extinguished ... Half-Welsh, half-English, Jan Morris has travelled to e ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780708315910 | ISBN 10: 0708315917
Out Of The Shadows reveals the fascinating story of women's lives in Wales during the twentieth century. In this major contribution to the gendered history of Wales, Deirdre Beddoe draws on wide-ranging historical sources, including extensive archiva ... more
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