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Welsh Women on This Day

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Discover 366 amazing women of Wales to intrigue and inspire each day of the year. Who was the first Princ...

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Slate Quarrying at Corris

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: A history of slate quarrying at Corris from its beginning in Tudor times to the wentieth century. Black-a...

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He Did his Bit - The Stories behind the shirt collection of Welsh rugby legend Charlie Pritchard

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Charlie Pritchard was a big name on the Welsh rugby scene in the years preceding the First World War, pla...

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Llandudno Before the Hotels

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: This volume reveals the long and dramatic history of one of Wales's most popular towns, from the arrival ...

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The Crossing of the Conwy

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: A history of the crossing of the Conwy from prehistoric times to the end of the twentieth century and its...

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Landmark Collector's Library: The Spirit of Beaumaris - The 20th

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: A book which takes a look at Beaumaris over 150 years. The oldest image is of the castle in 1864. Many lo...

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Bucked in the Yarn - The unique heritage of Coker Canvas

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: For over three hundred years some of the world's most famous admirals, explorers, buccaneers, and aristoc...

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Moth or Phoenix?

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: History of the oldest degree-conferring institution in Wales, founded in Lampeter as St David's College i...

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Scientists of Wales: Evan James Williams - Atomic Physicist

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: This book tells the story of the spirited Welshman, Evan James Williams, one of Wales's most eminent scie...

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Historic Shipwrecks of Wales

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Drama and disaster, tragedy and triumph, horror and heroism, this account of Welsh shipwrecks from the ea...

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Welsh Methodist Society, The - The Early Societies in South-West Wales 1737-1750

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Methodism has been highly influential in Wales and in the wider world. This volume helps explain its appe...

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Performing Wales - People, Memory and Place

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: This book uses ideas from performance studies to examine Welsh culture as performance. Focusing on three ...

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Sex, Sects and Society - 'Pain and Pleasure': A Social History of Wales and the Welsh, 1870-1945

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: This innovative study examines the spiritual and sexual experiences of the Welsh in the period 1870–1945....

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Escape to Gwrych Castle - A Jewish Refugee Story

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: In 1939, a number of German Jewish refugee children, brought over on the Kindertransport, found themselve...

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On Dragons' Wings

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: History of a Welsh reserve squadron, from 1930s biplanes through WWII bombing raids and Cold War fighter ...

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An Uprooted Community

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: During World War II, 54 families were forcibly evicted by the War Office to turn Epynt into a firing rang...

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Gallant Little Wales

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: The hitherto untold story of a civilian tented hospital, raised by public subscription in Wales. It trave...

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Hands off Wales - Nationhood and Miltancy

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: This new edition of 'Hands Off Wales' addresses the campaign of militant activism which Wales witnessed b...

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Having a Go at the Kaiser - A Welsh Family at War

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Three brothers from Swansea who served in the First World War sent over a hundred letters to their family...

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Welsh County at War, A

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: A Welsh County at War is not a military history of horror in the trenches, but a social and cultural hist...

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Welsh Not

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: A study of how and why children were punished for speaking Welsh in nineteenth-century Wales, and the rol...

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In Pursuit of Twm Carnabwth

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: The first detailed study of Thomas Rees/Twm Carnabwth and his part in the mid-19th century Rebecca Riots ...

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Bells Across Cardigan Bay - The Memoir of a Borth Master Mariner

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: In 1882 the 'Rowland Evans', owned by Captain John Evans of Borth, was abandoned in mysterious circumstan...

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Crime, Courts and Community in Mid-Victorian Wales - Montgomeryshire, People and Places

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Crime history with a focus on the later nineteenth century in mid Wales – a part of Britain that is large...

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