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 | Poetry in a Provisional State: The Austrian Lyric 1945-1955 (ISBN 0-7083-2080-5)
This book comprises of a detailed and original study of the wealth of poetry produced in Austria between the demise of the Third Reich and Austria's re-attainment of sovereignty in 1955.
It offers a distinctive contribution to the topic of literature and war, showing how, in the case of Austria, rejection of war-guilt after WWII produced a marked reluctance to treat the theme of war in literature. The author also demonstrates the theoretical problems for modern poetry in the handling of historical events.
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Price: £75.00
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The Entrepreneurial Society of the Rhondda Valleys, 1840-1920 (ISBN 9780708322901)
This is the first book to examine in a systematic way the entrepreneurial society of the Welsh Valleys. Until now, almost everything written about the society created by the Welsh coal industry has been about the workers and the unions, and there has been a significant gap, which needed to be filled if a rounded picture of life in the south Wales valleys during the coal boom was to be achieved.
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Price: £48.00
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 | Cricket in Wales: An Illustrated History (ISBN 978-0-7083-2164-5)
This book is an illustrated history of cricket in Wales, tracing the evolution of, and the fundamental role of the game in the culture and social history of the Principality. Indeed, cricket was the first team game to be played in Wales, with the first record of a match taking place dating back to 1783.
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Price: £14.99
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Degrees of Influence: A Memorial Volume for Glanmor Williams (ISBN 9780708321171)
Few Welsh scholars in the modern era have served their profession, university and country as admirably as Sir Glanmor Williams, who died, aged 84, on 24 February 2005. By dint of intellectual brilliance, far-sighted vision and exceptional personal charm, he achieved great eminence in the field of Welsh historical studies. It is no exaggeration to claim that the flourishing condition of Welsh history during the last half century is in large measure attributable to his influence. It is appropriate, therefore, that a memorial volume should be published to honour his name and achievements.
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Price: £55.00
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 | The Anglo-Irish Agreement: The First Three Years (ISBN 0708312748)
`This is an unusual and unusually valuable book. Arwel Ellis Owen, a Welshman, was head of programmes at BBC Northern Ireland from May 1985 until October 1988. During this time he kept a detailed record of events which, supllemented by newspaper reports and other accounts, has enabled him to write a dispassionate and lucid history of a key period. (Irish Studies Review)
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Price: £18.99
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Austria 1945-1955 (ISBN 0-7083-1339-6 )
Edited by Anthony Bushell
pp ix133 1996 hardback
The year 1995 marks two decisive anniversaries in the history of modern Austria: 50 years since the ending of the German occupation and 40 years since the signing of the State Treaty and the ending of the Allied occupation. This book will focus on the first ten years of post-war Austria at a time when this period is under critical and popular scrutiny.
'This is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the critical first ten years of Austria's postwar history . . . readable, well documented and informative . . .There is much food for thought; some of it may even cause indigestion in Austria if, as one hopes, the book finds a wide readership there.' (Forum for Modern Language Studies)
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Price: £25.00
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 | Building Jerusalem: Nonconformity, Labour and the Social Question in Wales, 1906-1939 (ISBN 0708314139)
' . . . this is a book which will command respect and attention from all working in the field.' (Congregational History Circle)
‘This handsomely produced volume . . . will be welcomed by students of Welsh nonconformity and Labour history alike.’ (Books in Wales)
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Price: £27.50
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Capitalism, Community and Conflict: (hardback) (ISBN 0708314937)
The development of the coal industry in south Wales gave birth to a new society. Characterized by rapid population growth, urbanization of the mining valleys, friction between capitalists and workers and the development of a distinctive popular culture, this society reached its zenith in the early decades of the twentieth century. The 1920s and 1930s brought soaring unemployment, economic hardship and a determination to challenge fascism at home and abroad, while the 1940s afforded opportunities for collectivist planning which led to the public ownership of the coal industry in 1947. Chris Williams's penetrating and accessible study reassesses the turbulent, dramatic and celebrated history of the south Wales coalfield from the foundation of the South Wales Miners' Federation in 1898 to the nationalization of the coal industry in 1947.
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Price: £25.00
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| | Capitalism, Community and Conflict: (paperback) (ISBN 0708314732)
The development of the coal industry in south Wales gave birth to a new society. Characterized by rapid population growth, urbanization of the mining valleys, friction between capitalists and workers and the development of a distinctive popular culture, this society reached its zenith in the early decades of the twentieth century. The 1920s and 1930s brought soaring unemployment, economic hardship and a determination to challenge fascism at home and abroad, while the 1940s afforded opportunities for collectivist planning which led to the public ownership of the coal industry in 1947. Chris Williams's penetrating and accessible study reassesses the turbulent, dramatic and celebrated history of the south Wales coalfield from the foundation of the South Wales Miners' Federation in 1898 to the nationalization of the coal industry in 1947.
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Price: £11.95
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Care and Treatment of the Mentally Ill in North Wales, 1800-2000 (ISBN 0-7083-1740-5)
Pamela Michael
' . . . eminently readable from start to finish . . . ' (Daily Post)
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Price: £16.99
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 | Conflict and Co-existence: (ISBN 0-7083-1404-X )
Nationalism and Democracy in Modern Europe
Edited by Robert Stradling, Scott Newton and David Bates
pp viii228 Demy 8vo 1997 hardback
This volume examines one of the central political questions of the modern world, the uneasy and often violent relationship between the forces of nationalism and democracy. The focus is on the nation-states of western Europe during the period 1850-1970. Much of the content explores varieties of conflict and compromise between these two 'cultures', which had in many aspects a contradictory dynamic, but which nevertheless shared some basic aspirations, and often contrived to coexist, both on the national and international level.
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Price: £50.00
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Craft of the Blacksmith: (ISBN 0-7083-1108-3 )
The Llawr-y-Glyn Smithy
John Williams-Davies
pp 38 1991 paperback
For centuries the blacksmith has been regarded as the most important sman in the rural community. It was he who made and serviced the vast range of iron implements, tools and utensils used on the farm, in the workshop and in the home. In the days before the tractor, when farmers relied upon the horse, the blacksmith also spent much of his time engaged in shoeing and other farriery tasks. As an introduction to the work of the rural blacksmith, this book looks at the basic techniques of ironworking and the range of skills involved. Records from Llawr-y-Glyn, a typical Montgomeryshire smithy during its heyday in the 1860s, provide a vivid picture of the sman at work in the community. Contents: The Building - its history and layout; The Rural Blacksmith - history, development, tools and techniques; Llawr-y-glyn Smithy in the 1860s. Aimed primarily at visitors to the museum it will also be of use to school children working on projects relating to the subject, and adults interested in history.
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Price: £4.99
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 | Crime, protest and police in modern British society: Essays in memory of David J. V. Jones (ISBN 0708315550)
Employing the skills of both the historian and the criminologist, these essays range across rural and urban worlds, presenting both highly localized case studies and the broad sweep of a synoptic survey, approaching the genre from both a historical and a cultural perspective.
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Price: £45.00
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Crime in Nineteenth-Century Wales (ISBN 0708311423)
At the present time, society and politicians are pre-occupied with the problem of rising crime rates. This book examines the emergence of this problem and the reasons why it established such a prominent place in our consciousness. In the first half of the nineteenth century the amount of criminal activity seemed to increase dramatically, to be followed by a period of exceptional calm and confidence. The author describes the levels of murder, rape, assault, burglary, theft and the breaches of other laws regulating the conduct of rural, urban and industrial populations. This study, the first of its kind, establishes that Wales was different from the rest of the United Kingdom in its criminals, and its treatment of them. It gives us a unique perspective from which to view the moral panics of the 1990s.
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Price: £45.00
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 | David Lloyd George (paperback) (ISBN 0708319475)
‘This is a thoroughly researched and sparky interpretation that reflects the author’s long engagement with the life and career of Lloyd George. The book succeeds in locating him in the radical political culture of his youth and expertly evokes the emergence of this key personality in modern politics. It is an excellent starting point for the ‘Celtic Radicals’ series.’ Dr Paul O’Leary, Series editor
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Price: £9.99
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David Lloyd George (hardback) (ISBN 070832004X)
‘This is a thoroughly researched and sparky interpretation that reflects the author’s long engagement with the life and career of Lloyd George. The book succeeds in locating him in the radical political culture of his youth and expertly evokes the emergence of this key personality in modern politics. It is an excellent starting point for the ‘Celtic Radicals’ series.’ Dr Paul O’Leary, Series editor
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Price: £55.00
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 | David Lloyd George: Movie Mystery (ISBN 070831371X)
This is the incredible story of a silent film, made in 1918, but not screened in public until 1996. The central figure in this drama - on and off screen - is the charismatic prime minister, David Lloyd George. Completed in the last months of the First World War, The Life Story of David Lloyd George was suddenly and mysteriously withdrawn before its first trade screening; solicitors, presumably acting for the government or for the Liberal party, paid £20,000 to remove the film from the offices of Ideal, the film's production company. It was long thought that both copies had been lost or destroyed, and then in 1994 the complete negative was found amongst material supplied by Viscount Tenby (Lloyd George's grandson) for examination by the Wales Film and Television Archive.
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Price: £14.99
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Democracy in a Depression: Britain in the 1920s and 1930s (paperback) (ISBN 0708314481)
This volume offers a reconsideration of the significance of the 1920s and 1930s. Following the series style, it contains an assessment of historical writing on this period, before moving on to look at the structural problems of the British economy, society and government, and the use of the media and mass culture to project a 'national' culture.
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Price: £11.95
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 | Democracy in a Depression (hardback) (ISBN 00-7083-1449-X )
Britain in the 1920s and 1930s
Malcolm Smith
Senior Lecturer at the University of Wales Lampeter
pp viii118 Demy 8vo 1998
This volume offers a reconsideration of the significance of the 1920s and 1930s. Following the series style, it contains an assessment of historical writing on this period, before moving on to look at the structural problems of the British economy, society and government, and the use of the media and mass culture to project a 'national' culture.
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Price: £15.00
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Democratic Rhondda: Politics and Society 1885-1951 (ISBN 0708313345)
Rhondda returned Wales's first `Labour' MP, nurtured doctrines of workers' control of industry, and became a Labour Party stronghold before the Great War. In the inter-war decades Rhondda's political culture sustained not only a resilient Labour Party but also provided for a level of Communist Party support unparalleled in British terms, leading to fierce political conflict between the two left-wing parties. Democratic Rhondda provides an original explanation of Labour's rise to power and subsequent domination in this most famous of all South Wales valleys. Democratic Rhondda is an investigation of the modern political history of the Rhondda Valleys from the late nineteenth century through to the aftermath of the Second World War. This was an area of remarkable economic and demographic growth which also experienced stagnation, slump and depression, and which exhibited volatile industrial relations and vivid political histories.
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Price: £35.00
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| | The Desert and the Dream: A Study of Welsh Colonization in Chubut, 1865-1915 (ISBN 0-7083-0579-2)
"Print on demand"
`The quantity of research contained in this book is little short of remarkable . . . Dr Williams brings out very well the dilemma facing the colony from the very beginning. Cultural homogeneity could only be maintained by economic isolation; yet such isolation would jeopardize the very existence of the colony, at least in the lower Chubut valley, if not to quite the same extent in the settlement in the Andes at Cwm Hyfryd . . . This is a fascinating work . . . It is also a very handsome book, well produced with some evocative photographs . . . ' (Welsh History Review)
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Diana's Mourning (paperback) (ISBN 0708317537)
Diana’s Mourning provides fascinating evidence of the diversity, complexity and ambiguity of popular reactions to Diana’s death, and demonstrates that, far from being united, the British people were in fact deeply divided in grief in September 1997.
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Price: £16.99
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| | Diana's Mourning (hardback) (ISBN 0708317545)
Diana’s Mourning provides fascinating evidence of the diversity, complexity and ambiguity of popular reactions to Diana’s death, and demonstrates that, far from being united, the British people were in fact deeply divided in grief in September 1997.
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Price: £45.00
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Disasters and Heroes: On War, Memory and Representation (paperback) (ISBN 0708318673)
Angus Calder shows how the ‘facts’ of war are transformed into myths that condition later responses to war, and how the construction of memory begins with wartime events themselves.
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Price: £16.99
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| | Disasters and Heroes: On War, Memory and Representation (hardback) (ISBN 0708318681)
Angus Calder shows how the ‘facts’ of war are transformed into myths that condition later responses to war, and how the construction of memory begins with wartime events themselves.
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Price: £35.00
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Domestic Life in Wales (ISBN 0708317464)
An essential and fascinating source of information on Welsh customs, traditions and domestic culture. Based on oral evidence gathered during the twentieth century and on documentary evidence from a variety of sources and periods, it covers topics ranging from traditional foods to the covering of table legs, and from crafts such as stocking-knitting and cheese-making to the effect of the coming of electricity on Welsh home life.
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| | Drink and Sobriety in Victorian Wales c.1820- c.1895 (ISBN 0-7083-0845-7 )
William Rhys Lambert
pp xiv294 1984 hardback
This is the first major study of the temperance movement in nineteenth-century Wales. It is a wide-ranging work which necessarily embraces numerous aspects of social, political, economic and cultural history. The role of drink and drinking in Wales on the eve of the `temperance reformation' is examined and the author then traces the development of the temperance movement from its suasionist phase to the attempt, under a distinctly nationalistic impulse, to secure parliamentary legislation on the drink issue. Throughout the study run the themes of the influence of nonconformity, political and cultural nationalism, reformist pressure group politics, and the history of recreation. The author concludes that the preliminary success and eventual failure of the temperance movement were closely related to nonconformist ethics and attitudes which were at the very heart of the movement in Wales.
`It is extremely well written...a splendid achievement and a fine contribution to the social history of Wales.' (Book news from Wales)
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Price: £25.00
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A 'Favorit' Game: Cricket in South Wales before 1914 (ISBN 0-7083-1190-3 )
Cricket in South Wales before 1914
Andrew Hignell
Out of print
This book pieces together the factors responsible for the spread and rise in popularity during the nineteenth century of the game of cricket. It highlights the individuals and organisations responsible for the growth of the game, and the text is liberally sprinkled with a wealth of interesting characters and events, culled from nineteenth century newspapers and other written sources.
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 | The Fed: A History of the South Wales Miners in the Twentieth Century (ISBN 0-7083-1422-8)
The core of this full-length history of the South Wales Miners' Federation ('The Fed') is the momentous period from the General Strike of 1926 to the nationalization of the mines in 1947, including the bitter intervening period of struggle in the twenties and thirties against unemployment at home and fascism abroad.
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Price: £19.99
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For Club and Country: Welsh Football Greats (ISBN 0-7083-1624-7)
A distinguished team of experts and enthusiasts celebrates the careers of a host of Welsh football’s finest players – from that first superstar, Billy Meredith, through the hey-day of the peerless John Charles to latter-day heroes such as Mark Hughes and Ryan Giggs.
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Price: £16.99
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 | A Forgotten Army: The Female Munitions Workers of South Wales, 1939-1945 (ISBN 070831726X)
A Forgotten Army is a major contribution to our knowledge of twentieth-century Welsh women's history, as well as a significant reassessment of the impact of the Second World War on Welsh society.
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Price: £45.00
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Glanmor Williams: A Life (ISBN 0708317456)
Glanmor Williams not only writes revealingly about many aspects of Welsh public and academic life, but also describes his life and achievements with characteristic insight, generosity and humour
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Price: £19.99
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 | Glamorgan Sheriffs (ISBN 0-7083-1264-0 )
Edited by Patricia Moore
pp xi116 1995 hardback
The office of sheriff originated in Anglo-Saxon England, where the sheriff was an officer of the Crown with responsibility for keeping the peace. By the beginning of the twelfth century the Normans had introduced the office into Glamorgan, and the sheriff remained an officer of the Marcher lord until the creation of the county of Glamorgan under Henry VIII. The office of sheriff is still in existence, though its duties have greatly changed, and those chosen to serve are no longer drawn exclusively from the landowning families which dominated local affairs in the past.
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Price: £27.50
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Guide to Parliamentary Enclosures in Wales (ISBN 0-7083-1111-3)
The Parliamentary enclosure movement in Wales resulted in the division of large areas of open moorland amongst private owners, and the creation of new farms and farmland in many parts of the country. This volume offers a comprehensive listing of all Welsh Parliamentary enclosures, with details of location, area and type of land involved, the commissioners responsible, and the principle landowners concerned. The present whereabouts of copies of the awards is given. Introductory chapters provide a background to the enclosure legislation and to the movement as it affected Wales, and a directory of enclosure commissioners active in Wales is provided. An appendix offers a brief list of enclosure acts affecting Ireland and Scotland.
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