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The stranger than fiction story of a brave woman who defied Victorian convention to turn disaster into triumph and blazed a trail that few would have had the courage and determination to follow.
` . . . one of the most remarkable women in Great Britain . . .' (Western Mail)
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Price: £7.99
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Dafydd Elis-Thomas: A Biography (ISBN 0708318304)
This biography is a measured assessment of Thomas’s political strengths and weaknesses, exploring both his achievements and impact, and his political shortcomings.
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Price: £20.00
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| | George Ewart Evans:Thomas Edward Ellis (18591899) (ISBN 0708309275 )
Wyn Jones
pp 97 1986 paperback
This is a short biography of a politician who played a leading role in the resurgence of national awareness which stirred Wales during the lateVictorian period. It traces Tom Ellis's family background and educational progress, before concentrating on his political career, first as MP for Merioneth and then as a member of Gladstone's last Government. Ellis's unstinting efforts to redress Welsh grievances and to advance Wales's national claims are described, as are his contributions to such matters as the promotion of Welsh secondary and university education, the establishment of the Welsh Land Commission, and the legislation on disestablishment. He must be seen as one of those who helped to shape the Wales of today, and whose idealism and vision remain to challenge the Wales of tomorrow.
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Price: £2.95
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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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| | Iorwerth C. Peate (ISBN 0-7083-0926-7)
`Iorwerth C. Peate's outstanding achievement was to create a National Folk Museum at St. Fagans. It was Peate who dreamt of an open-air museum in Wales on the Scandinavian model where the visitor could view the way of life of past ages. It was he, too, more than anyone else, who strove to see the dream realized and to establish the study of folk life as a respected academic discipline in Britain. The story of these accomplishments, and of the opposition Peate encountered - within the National Museum of Wales, for example - is lucidly outlined by Catrin Stevens. She also presents a clear and useful appraisal of Peate's academic writing in the field of folk studies.' (Anglo-Welsh Review)
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Price: £7.99
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Judge Bryn Roberts (ISBN 070831029X )
A Biography
Jack Eaton
Out of print
This is the first fulllength biography of John Bryn Roberts, Liberal MP and controversial County Court judge. Born in 1843, Roberts entered the legal profession and in 1885 was elected to represent the Eifion constituency in Caernarfonshire. He was an upholder of the oldstyle Gladstonian Liberalism, often disagreeing with parliamentary colleagues, including Lloyd George, over such issues as home rule, social reform, imperialism and war. Appointed as a County Court judge in 1906, he found himself at the centre of the industrial relations of the south Wales coalfield.
His rulings on cases involving the Workmen's Compensation Acts brought him enemies within the South Wales Miners' Federation and gained him a reputation as a union smasher of the boss class.
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Price: £19.99
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| | The Ladies of Gregynog (ISBN 0708308945)
Eirene White
pp 54 reprinted 1997 paperback
The story of Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, whose grandfather was a millionaire railway contractor and bridgebuilder, and who inherited half a million pounds each. Unique among their wealthy contemporaries, the two sisters devoted their large fortune to fostering the culture of their native Wales. In 1920 they bought Gregynog, with the intention of establishing a craft commune but in the event it became a centre devoted to music, printing and sculpture.
`A pleasing picture emerges of the two sisters. Independent by nature, their differing temperaments did not deter them in their common interests in fostering the best in life. Lady White has given us a muchneeded addition to our knowledge of the Ladies of Gregynog.' (AngloWelsh Review)
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Price: £5.99
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Llywelyn Ap Gruffudd: Prince of Wales (ISBN 0708314740)
This is the first full-length English-language study of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (c.1225-1282), prince of Wales. In this scholarly and lucid book J. Beverley Smith offers an in-depth assessment not only of Llywelyn but of the age in which he lived. The author takes thirteenth-century Wales as a backdrop against which he analyses the relationship between a sense of nationhood and the practical realities of creating a structure to embrace a unified principality of Wales held under the aegis of the English Crown. This examination of the triumphs and subsequent reverses of a ruler of exceptional vision and vigour is a substantial contribution to our understanding of the nature of Welsh politics and the complexities of Anglo-Welsh relations.
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Price: £47.00
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| | Spiritual Pilgrim: A Reassessment of the Life of the Countess of Huntingdon (ISBN 0-7083-1280-2)
A new perspective on a woman who succeeded in a `man's world' and who, until now, has been badly underestimated.
`I have read your book and am greatly impressed by the thoroughness and indefatigability of your research and documentation and by the skill in organization, which succeeds in presenting a remarkable personality in the context of actual fact and events.' (Dr Geoffrey Nuttall, FBA)
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Price: £55.00
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Thomas Edward Ellis (1859-1899) (ISBN 00708309275 )
Wyn Jones
pp 97 1986 paperback
This is a short biography of a politician who played a leading role in the resurgence of national awareness which stirred Wales during the lateVictorian period. It traces Tom Ellis's family background and educational progress, before concentrating on his political career, first as MP for Merioneth and then as a member of Gladstone's last Government. Ellis's unstinting efforts to redress Welsh grievances and to advance Wales's national claims are described, as are his contributions to such matters as the promotion of Welsh secondary and university education, the establishment of the Welsh Land Commission, and the legislation on disestablishment. He must be seen as one of those who helped to shape the Wales of today, and whose idealism and vision remain to challenge the Wales of tomorrow.
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Price: £2.95
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| | T. J.: A Life of Dr Thomas Jones, CH (ISBN 0-7083-1138-5)
A full scale life of Jones is long overdue and the great range of his activities guarantees the interest of many people and certainly all serious students of modern British history.
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Price: £55.00
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William Morgan and his Bible (ISBN 00-7083-0982-8)
The author traces the progress of William Morgan's career from rural Penmachno to his appointment as Bishop of St Asaph. But the main emphasis is on Morgan's feat in translating the whole of the Bible into Welsh for the first time, a feat whose nature and extent is shown in both its Welsh and European background. We also find new information about the 'internal history' of the translation: Morgan's critical use of previous translations from Greek and Hebrew to a number of languages; his adherence to his own ideas regarding the technique of scriptural translation; and the nature of his achievement in elevating the Welsh language to its place as 'one of the dialects of God's Revelation'.
'...everyone should read Dr Isaac Thomas' book. The way in which he unravels the various strands makes a fascinating story even more interesting.' (Welsh Churchman)
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Price: £4.99
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