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Dic Penderyn

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Biography of Dic Penderyn, hanged for stabbing a soldier after the 1831 Merthyr Rising – a crime later co...

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Wales After 1536 - A Guide

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: The final volume in a trilogy of Welsh historical guides taking the reader from 1536 to the middle of the...

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Inventor of Britain - The Work and Legacies of Humphrey Llwyd

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: This book explores the works and legacy of the sixteenth-century Welsh scholar Humphrey Llwyd. Through hi...

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The Trials of Edward Vaughan

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: This is the first study of a gentleman whose life involved a decades-long legal battle to secure his fami...

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Gentility in Early Modern Wales

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Between 1450 and 1720, Wales was a place of opportunity as well as a society in transition. This book is ...

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The Law of Hywel Dda - Law texts from medieval Wales, translated and edited

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Hywel Dda ruled most of Wales in the tenth century, and is known for bringing together and codifying a sy...

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Introducing the Medieval Ass

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Introducing the Medieval Ass considers the fascinating ways that medieval people understood the ass, or d...

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Celtic Wales

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Celtic Wales is a concise, highly readable and beautifully-illustrated book that answers so many question...

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Heraldic Visitations of Wales

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Two substantial volumes comprising collections of Welsh pedigrees by Lewys Dwnn, transcribed from various...

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Life in the Mill

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: A short, illustrated guide to the story of life in the textile mill from the 17th to the 20th century, co...

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Up the Rhondda!

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: In this kaleidoscopic portrait, John Geraint captures with a filmmaker's eye the exuberant life of this f...

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Pub Life - Last Orders at Rhondda Pubs and Clubs past and Present

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: A revealing and humorous trawl through the drinking establishments of the Rhondda Valley in south Wales, ...

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Gender Studies in Wales: Representing the Male, Masculinity, enre and Social Context in Six South Wales Novels

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: This book argues that industrial patriarchy in South Wales established an exclusive though damaging form ...

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Welsh Language in Cardiff, The

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: A history of the Welsh language in Cardiff over a thousand years. Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description...

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A Century of Sand Dredging in the Bristol Channel

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: This is the second half of a detailed history of sand dredging in the Bristol Channel - the result of ove...

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Welsh at Mametz Wood, 1916, The

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: This work is a new interpretation of the First World War battle for Mametz Wood in July 1916, telling the...

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Glad Tidings of Struggle and Strife - A History of Protest Christ

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Protest Christmas Cards, highlighting political, industrial and social turmoil, have been produced since ...

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Forbidden Lives - LGBT Stories from Wales

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Forbidden Lives explores and uncovers the hidden LGBT history of Wales through portraits of significant L...

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Photographing Pembrokeshire

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Ieuan Morris' striking images and fascinating accompanying text throw new light on one of Wales' most stu...

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The History and Architecture of Cardiff Civic Centre

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: A volume presenting the history and architecture of Britain's finest civic centre, and how it came to be ...

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This Stolen Land - A People's History of the Gwent Levels

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: The Gwent Levels line the north shore of the Severn in South Wales: Cas-gwent (Chepstow) at its head; its...

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50 Gem of South-West Wales - The History and Heritage of the Most Iconic Places

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: This beautifully photographed selection of fifty of the region's most precious assets shows what makes So...

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Neyland & Llanstadwell Through Time

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: A collection of over 175 then and now photographs, with explanatory notes, reflecting the history of Neyl...

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Colwyn Bay at War from Old Photographs

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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Colwyn Bay at War is an essential record of the extremely important part played by this small town during...

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