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Cardiff and the Marquesses of Bute
As late as 1980, a quarter of the population of Wales lived within the boundaries of what had once been the lordships of the Bute estate. Powerful landowners for centuries, the …
Welsh Military Institutions
This text offers an examination of Welsh military organization, strategy, tactics and conduct in war which goes beyond the military sphere and touches on all aspects of Welsh …
Law and Disorder in Early Modern Wales
Based on a detailed study of the court records of the county of Denbighshire in north-east Wales, focusing on the period from 1660 to 1730, this book shows from the records of …
Law, Order and Government in Early Modern Caernarfonshire
A thorough examination of the role of Tudor government and its personnel in an essentially Welsh context, and an analysis of the impact of the Acts of Union on the mechanics of …
Exodus from Cardiganshire
Was migration from Victorian Cardiganshire simply a flight from rural poverty? This book relates the rate and timing of the outward movements from the county to the prevailing …
Unemployment, Poverty and Health in Interwar South Wales
The economic depression of the interwar period marks a fundamental turning-point in Welsh history, and in particular the history of south Wales, when decades of breakneck …
The North Wales Quarrymen, 1874-1922
On a Saturday morning in November 1865, between 1,200 and 1,500 men gathered above the small town of Bethesda, to launch a society which they called the United Society of Welsh …
Urban Assimilation in Post-Conquest Wales
This book uses, principally but not only, a case study of the Denbighshire town of Ruthin to discuss both the significance of Englishness versus Welshness and of gender …
Schools, Politics and Society
The 1870 Education Act provided that every child in England and Wales was to be provided with an opportunity to receive elementary education. This book considers the way in which …
The Politics of the Principality
This study provides a wholly new perspective on Welsh politics in the troubled decades leading up to the Civil War. This is the first study for over half a century to examine …
The Labyrinth of Flames
The Opposition to the Great War in Wales 1914-1918
This study is the first thorough analysis of the extent of the opposition to the Great War in Wales, and is the most extensive study of the anti-war movement in any part of …