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The Customs and Traditions of Wales
This concise and informative guide looks back to the customs and traditions of a predominantly rural Wales during the nineteenth century — the revelries of the corn harvest; winter nights…
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The Debated Lands
The negative connotations of the word “balkanization” neatly sum up current attitudes to this maligned region. In The Debated Lands, Andrew Hammond studies hundreds of examples of travel writing to…
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The Dragon Has Two Tongues
First published in 1968, The Dragon has Two Tongues was the first book-length study of the English-language literature of Wales. Written by one of Wales’s major English-language writers of fiction…
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The Druids
This classic study of the druids, one of the three intellectual classes of the early Celtic peoples, was first published by the University of Wales Press in 1966. The druids…
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The Education of a Nation
“All scholars interested in the future of the UK, and all those interested in other small nations and minority cultures can learn a goo deal from the Welsh material presented…
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The Fed
“The SWMF was almost unique among British unions in that it dominated not only the working life but also the leisure, cultural and even religious activities of the Welsh coal…
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The Gwent County History, Volume 1
This volume deals with an exceptionally long period in Gwent’s history, from prehistory to the appearance of Norman invaders from the east in the second half of the eleventh century….
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The Industrial Development of the Ebbw Valleys, 1780-1914
John Elliott has had an industrial and academic career and for the past twelve years has been chairman of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodrion. He was Director of the Institute…
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The Information Age
Neil Selwyn is a Lecturer at Cardiff University School of Social Sciences and the author of 101 Key Ideas in Information Technology (2002) Stephen Gorard is a Professor at Cardiff University…
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The Labour Party in Wales, 1900-2000
“The introduction . . . provides a historiographical tour de force through half a century of Welsh Labour hsitory . . . this book will stand as a major tribute…
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The Last Rising
David J. V. Jones was Professor of History at the University College of Swansea. His other books include Rebecca’s Children, Crime in Nineteenth-Century Wales and Crime and Policing in the…
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The Last Rising
David J. V. Jones was Professor of History at the University College of Swansea. His other books include Rebecca’s Children, Crime in Nineteenth-Century Wales and Crime and Policing in the…