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 | The Welsh in Iowa (ISBN 9780708322222)
The Welsh in Iowa is the history of the little known Welsh immigrant communities in the American Midwestern state of Iowa. Dr. Walley's book identifies what made the Welsh unique as immigrants to North America, and as migrants and settlers in a land built on such groups.
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Price: £45.00
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The Women and Men of 1926: A Gender and Social History of the General Strike and Miner's Lockout in South Wales (ISBN 9780708322758)
The General Strike and Miners' Lockout of 1926 is arguably the most important labour dispute in modern British history. Hence far, it has been covered extensively by historians as a matter of politics and labour history. This is the first attempt to write a history of the dispute from the perspective of families, neighbourhoods and gender relations.
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Price: £48.00
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 | Radical Joe: A Life of Joseph Chamberlain (ISBN 0708311954)
Joseph Chamberlain was one of the greatest politicians who
never became prime minister.
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Price: £14.99
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Wales and its Boxers: The Fighting Tradition (ISBN 978-0-7083-1915-4)
For centuries there had been fistfighters, and from the early days of industry it was apparent that the Welsh had a particular passion for boxing. In this book the authors trace that passion through the lives of great, brave and elegant champions, by recalling their great bouts and by showing how moments of triumph were celebrated by whole communities. Every village had its heroes, and the hope was always that their names (with that of Wales) would gain the world's attention.
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Price: £14.99
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 | The Welsh National School of Medicine, 1893-1931: The Cardiff Years (ISBN 978-0-7083-2174-4)
This book is an account of the origins and development of Cardiff's, and Wales's, medical school during the first four, often controversial, decades of its existence as part of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire
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Price: £55.00
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Your Children Will be Next: Bombing and Propaganda in the Spanish Civil War, pb (ISBN 9780708320945)
In the last week of October 1936, Franco's forces were advancing on Madrid. The fall of the capital was widely expected and with it an early end to the Spanish Civil War. Getafe, a small town to the south of Madrid, was the next target of the Nationalist assault. Sections of the international press reported that forty or more children had been killed in Getafe during an enemy air-raid. The tragedy was quickly encapsulated in a poster issued by the Ministry of Propaganda. Accompanied by the words "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next", the poster linked Hitler's bombers with Franco's ruthless determination to overcome resistance and destroy the Republic.
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Price: £18.99
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| | Your Children Will Be Next: Bombing and Propaganda in the Spanish Civil War, hb (ISBN 9780708320952)
In the last week of October 1936, Franco's forces were advancing on Madrid. The fall of the capital was widely expected and with it an early end to the Spanish Civil War. Getafe, a small town to the south of Madrid, was the next target of the Nationalist assault. Sections of the international press reported that forty or more children had been killed in Getafe during an enemy air-raid. The tragedy was quickly encapsulated in a poster issued by the Ministry of Propaganda. Accompanied by the words "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next", the poster linked Hitler's bombers with Franco's ruthless determination to overcome resistance and destroy the Republic.
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Price: £60.00
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The Rebecca Riots - A Study in Agrarian Discontent (ISBN 0-7083-0933-X)
Out of stock. "Print on demand".
`The riots have perhaps owed much of their fame in Wales to their nocturnal and dramatic setting, and much has been written both tendentiously and inaccurately about them. It is safe to say that Professor Williams's excellently written and dispassionate account of the movement and its background is likely to remain the final word on the subject.' (Times Literary Supplement)
`It is a model of its kind - compact and readable, yet based on deep understanding and
meticulous research.' (Journal of Modern History)
‘ . . . essential reading . . . ’ (Western Mail)
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Price: £16.99
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| | Right from the Start (ISBN 0708319629)
The autobiography of Lord Roberts from his birth in 1930 up to the year 2000, told against the backdrop of his time and its leading personalities.
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Price: £25.00
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The Rural Revolt That Failed: Farm Workers' Trade Unions in Wales, 1889 - 1950 (ISBN 0-7083-1024-9)
Like their counterparts in the south Wales coalfield and slate quarries of Gwynedd, the farm workers were also ready to stand up for their rights when the occasion demanded. They too have a history of labour disputes and strikes. History books have concentrated on the more familiar topics, particularly the Rebecca Riots and the Tithe War. Until now little attention has been paid to the grievances and struggles of the agricultural working class. This book traces the roots of their discontent, and for the first time concentrates on the efforts made by local labour leaders to organize the men into farm workers' unions. This scholarly and serious study, based on meticulous and scrupulous research will make an enormous impact on the study of Welsh social history. It rejects utterly the conventional view and offers a radically new interpretation of Welsh rural life.
`...as an anthem to the neglected pioneers of the rural labour movement his book deserves a warm welcome.' (Times Higher Education Supplement)
`...this is a book which should alter prevailing perceptions of the pattern of rural discontent and trade unionism over the last hundred years.' (Albion)
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Price: £45.00
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| | Schools, Politics and Society: Elementary Education in Wales, 1870-1902 (ISBN 0-7083-1535-6)
The Education Act of 1870, which provided that every child in England and Wales should have the opportunity to receive elementary education, had far-reaching implications both inside and outside the classroom. Schools, Politics and Society: Elementary Education in Wales, 1870–1902, is a revealing study of education in late-Victorian Wales. It also analyses the emergence of local democracy at the end of the nineteenth century and assesses the role of political and religious leadership at a crucial time in Wales’s history.
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Price: £29.99
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Secret Sins: Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920 (ISBN 0-7083-1367-1)
A very exciting book which will attract considerable attention - a challenging, passionately-written and meticulously researched volume. It highlights the personal experiences of the individual, and probes the private lives of people in order to fully appreciate the complex nature of society, uncovering layers of reality which have hitherto escaped us.
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Price: £16.99
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 | Shipowners of Cardiff. A Class By Themselves (ISBN 0-7083-1433-3)
A History of the Cardiff and Bristol Channel Incorporated Shipowners' Association by David Jenkins.
‘This is a beautiful book to read and hold, well-written, lavishly illustrated and stylishly produced . . . a study which deepens our understanding of the economic history of Wales and illuminates some important aspects of the country’s social history.’ (Planet)
Between 1790 and 1914 Cardiff was transformed from a modest borough town into one of the greatest coal-exporting ports of the world. David Jenkins's fascinating, detailed and lavishly illustrated book is a study, based on original research, of the Cardiff and Bristol Incorporated Shipowners' Association. Established in 1875 to represent the interests of Cardiff's shipowners during a period when the export of steam-coal from south Wales was booming, the Association has had a distinguished history and was for many decades a considerable influence on the development of the British mercantile fleet.
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Price: £16.99
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Shipping in Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection, 1920-1975 (ISBN 0-7083-1231-4)
'This is a high quality book well worth buying and keeping.' (Seafarer)
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Price: £16.99
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 | Soccer and Society: South Wales, 1900-1939 (ISBN 0708317413)
This fascinating book illustrates how soccer was shaped by wider social, cultural and economic forces.
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Price: £35.00
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A Social History of the Cinema in Wales, 1918-1951: Pulpits, Coalpits and Fleapits (ISBN 0708318789)
This book seeks to explain why people went to the pictures in the numbers they did, what type of cinemas they went to, what sort of experience they received when they got there and how Welsh society more generally responded to the remarkable popularity of this largely American form of entertainment.
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Price: £17.99
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| | Story of the Harp in Wales (ISBN 0708311040)
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This book has something for everyone, giving a broad outline of the story of the harp in Wales, and yet including incisive insights into some aspects which have not before been covered in such an accessible style.
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Price: £5.95
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Taking Stock: The Centenary History of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society (ISBN 0708318258)
The book is enlivened with illuminating and entertaining anecdotes, highlighted with old photographs.
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Price: £12.50
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| | The Twilight of Welsh Sail (ISBN bookim0-7083-0866-X )
Aled Eames
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Aled Eames here traces the colourful story of a representative handful of Welsh sailing ships, most of which were afloat within living memory, and the men and women whose lives depended upon them. It is a story told in their own words and from contemporary documents, and ranges from the Welsh coastal trade, unloading cargoes into horse-drawn carts, to dramatic battles against storm and shipwreck around Cape Horn. This is a portrait of a way of life once typical of maritime communities throughout the world but now gone for ever.
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Price: £4.99
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Valleys of Song: Music and Society in Wales 1840-1914 (ISBN 0708314805)
'Gareth Williams has written a most entertaining book, erudite but with an eye for telling detail that puts choral singing into a vivid social context.' (Western Mail)
The image of Wales as 'the land of song' is very much a Victorian creation based on the immense popularity and international renown of its choral singing, particularly in the industrial communities of the south. From the mid-nineteenth century to the First World War, the valleys of south Wales were the centre of a vibrant musical culture which embraced not just choirs but orchestras, bands and opera.
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Price: £16.99
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 | Wales and Cinema: The First Hundred Years (ISBN 0-7083-1370-1)
Wales and Cinema charts the colourful rise of the travelling picture showmen and the pioneers who screened their work on the fairground and in the music-hall at the turn of the century. Chapters focus on the romantic silent melodramas made when Wales was `discovered' by Hollywood, and on the career and influence of Ivor Novello who starred for D. W. Griffith. The book celebrates the rise of the cinema itself in Wales, the coming of sound and the boom years of the twenties and thirties.
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Price: £24.95
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Wales and the Spanish Civil War: The Dragon’s Dearest Cause? (paperback) (ISBN 0708318169)
Many nations were involved in the Spanish Civil War, but in Wales it retained a special significance, representing a heroic saga of mythical resonance. </i>>!!Wales and the Spanish Civil War!!<<i> brings a rigorous and critical analysis to bear upon this hallowed tradition.
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Price: £14.99
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| | Wales and the Spanish Civil War: The Dragon’s Dearest Cause? (hardback) (ISBN 0708318177)
Many nations were involved in the Spanish Civil War, but in Wales it retained a special significance, representing a heroic saga of mythical resonance. Wales and the Spanish Civil War brings a rigorous and critical analysis to bear upon this hallowed tradition.
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Price: £25.00
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Wales and the First World War (paperback) (ISBN 0708319696)
The first full-length study of the subject, drawing on many previously unpublished sources to discuss the significance of the war for Welsh social, political, economic and religious life.
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Price: £18.99
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| | Wales and the First World War (hardback) (ISBN 070831970X)
The first full-length study of the subject, drawing on many previously unpublished sources to discuss the significance of the war for Welsh social, political, economic and religious life.
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Price: £60.00
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Wales and War: Society, Politics and Religion in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (ISBN 0708319017)
Through its examination of the political, religious, cultural and social dimensions of war this volume sheds new light not only on the Welsh past, but that of Britain more generally.
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Price: £55.00
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 | The Wales TUC 1974-2004: Devolution and Industrial Politics (ISBN 070831919X)
‘Much more than just a history of the Wales TUC, this is the story of industrial and social change out of which grew the new politics of devolution. A fast-moving and enjoyable read, covering thirty years that have defined modern Wales.’ David Jenkins, Wales TUC General Secretary 1984–2004
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Price: £12.99
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A Wandering Scholar: The Life and Opinions of Robert Roberts (ISBN 0-7083-1133-4)
Robert Roberts's autobiography, written in the Australian bush during the years around 1870, is a poignant personal account of the struggle of a poor Welsh farm-boy to achieve education and indentity. Yet Roberts's life is far from the conventional Victorian success story. Although he qualified as a school-teacher and was later ordained into the ministry, he failed in the world's eyes in both callings. At the age of twenty-nine, persistent self-doubt and the disgrace caused by his weakness for drink led him to sail to self-imposed exile in Australia. There he settled to tutoring, writing and research in Welsh lexicography. The period covered the in autobiography - from Roberts's childhood to his emigration - was a time of upheaval in rural Wales: under the impact of modernization and Anglicization, ancient patterns of farming, culture and traditions were being eroded; new forces were at work in religion and education.
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Price: £35.00
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| | The Welsh in London 1500-2000 (paperback) (ISBN 0-7083-1697-2)
This is the human story of the London Welsh, with its focus on the comings and goings of ordinary men and women as well as the contribution of some outstanding individuals.
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Price: £16.99
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The Welsh in London 1500-2000 (hardback) (ISBN 0-7083-1710-3)
This is the human story of the London Welsh, with its focus on the comings and goings of ordinary men and women as well as the contribution of some outstanding individuals.
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Price: £35.00
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| | Welsh Steam: Railway Photographs from the National Library of Wales (ISBN 0-7083-1114-8)
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'There is a wealth of social as well as railway history here . . . ' (Talyllyn News)
'This is a book I can thoroughly recommend . . . ' (Steam at Llangollen)
' . . .should prove of great interest to lovers of Welsh railways great and small. . . ' (Railway)
' . . . The well-researched captions (along with a useful bibliography) makes this a valuable addition to any railway library . . . ' (Great Western Railway Journal)
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Price: £14.94
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Werwolf! The History of the National Socialist Guerrilla Movement 1944-1946 (ISBN 0-7083-1446-5)
This is the most complete history to date of the partisan movement set up by the Nazi regime in Germany in the last days of the Second World War.
` . . . a substantial and instructive book . . .’ (Intelligence and National Security)
` . . . Biddiscombe has assembled an astonishing quantity of evidence . . . ’ Holocaust and Genocide
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Price: £40.00
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