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BC, HIS010020, Paperback, University of Wales PressA History of Wales 1660-1815
$8.00A History of Wales 1660-1815 is the second volume of a trilogy on the history of Wales from 1485 to 1906. Beginning with the political activity of the period, the…
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BB, Hardback, HIS010020, HIS037070, University of Wales PressA History of Wales 1906-2000
$35.00D. Gareth Evans is former Principal Lecturer and Head of History at Trinity College, Carmarthen. “ . . . I recommend it to all students of Welsh history and to the lay reader who…
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BC, HIS010020, HIS037070, Paperback, University of Wales PressA History of Wales 1906-2000
$12.00A History of Wales, 1906-2000 is the fourth volume in a series beginning in 1485. This invaluable survey examines the main economic, social, political and cultural developments of hte last…
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BB, Hardcover, LIT004120, University of Wales PressA Hundred Years of Fiction
$30.00A Hundred Years of Fiction is the first book to explore and analyse the Anglophone fiction of Wales in the twentieth century. Stephen Knight looks at writers who deal with…
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BB, Hardcover, REF019000, University of Wales PressA Most Peculiar People
$30.00Writers, politicians, visitors, insiders and outsiders of all kinds have tried to grasp the elusive nature of the Welsh character, that subtle creation of history, geography, language and social custom…
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BC, Paperback, University of Wales PressA Pocket Guide: Cardiff
$3.00John Davies is one of Wales’s leading historians. Previously a lecturer at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, he is now a freelance writer and broadcaster. He spends his time toing…
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BC, HIS002000, HIS010020, Paperback, University of Wales PressA Pocket Guide: Celtic Wales
$14.95In A Pocket Guide: Celtic Wales, Miranda Green and Ray Howell provide a wide-ranging and accessible introduction to a rich and complex phase of Wales’s past as they examine the…
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BC, Paperback, University of Wales PressA Pocket Guide: Discovering Welsh Graves
$3.00IntroductionMap of Welsh local authoritiesAngleseyBlaenau GwentBridgendCaerphillyCardiffCarmarthenshireCeredigionConwyDenbighshireFlintshireGwynedd (Caernarfonshire)Gwynedd (Merioneth)Merthyr TydfilMonmouthshireNeath and Port TalbotNewportPembrokeshirePowys (Breconshire)Powys (Montgomeryshire)Powys (Radnorshire)Rhondda Cynon TafSwanseaTorfaenVale of GlamorganWrexham Index
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BC, Paperback, University of Wales PressA Pocket Guide: Dylan Thomas’s Swansea, Gower and Laugharne
$6.00AcknowledgementsPrefaceChronological Summary 1 Swansea – ‘the best place’2 Gower – ‘the loveliest sea-coast’3 Laugharne – ‘this timeless, mild, beguiling island’ Further ReadingIndex
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BC, Paperback, University of Wales PressA Pocket Guide: Roman Wales
$3.00The Roman period in Wales was of exceptional importance in the development of the country and left a lasting historical and archaeological legacy. This fully-illustrated Pocket Guide: Roman Wales is…
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BB, Hardback, University of Wales PressA Rattleskull Genius
$90.00An industrious academic and charmingly eccentric Romantic poet and forger, Iolo Morganwg (1747-1846) left behind a floor-to-ceiling stack of unpublished manuscripts in his small Welsh cottage. A Rattleskull Genius, based on…
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BB, Hardback, SOC022000, University of Wales PressActing Wales
$10.00Peter Stead is a writer, broadcaster and historian. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Glamorgan, having previously been a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of…