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 | Cardiff (ISBN 0708317308)
An extremely informative and entertaining guide to the city and will be fascinating reading for both visitors and residents alike.
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Celtic Wales (ISBN 0708315321)
A Pocket Guide
This book explores the Celtic past of Wales, from the middle of the first millennium BC to the tenth century AD.
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 | The Customs and Traditions of Wales (ISBN 0-7083-1118-0)
Following on from the success of The History of Wales this new Pocket Guide is primarily intended for the general reader who wants to know more about the traditional customs of Wales.
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Discovering Welsh Graves (ISBN 0-7083-1792-8)
An unusual and rewarding guided tour of Wales, visiting the final resting places of more than 350 men and women (and one leg).
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 | Dylan Thomas's Swansea, Gower and Laugharne (ISBN 070831628X)
Although Dylan Thomas died in 1953, his work has never been out of print and his notorious life continues to fascinate. This Pocket Guide provides a detailed account of the relationship between Thomas's life, work and the three places that were most important to him.
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A History of Sport in Wales (ISBN 0708319467)
‘This is an excellent book on an important subject. It is scholarly, accessible, full of interesting points about a wide variety of sporting activities, and very readable. Stylishly written, often with a sense of humour, it succeeds in bringing to life a host of academic debates about sport and popular culture in modern Britain and modern Wales’. Professor Chris Williams, University of Wales Swansea
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 | The History of Wales (ISBN 0-7083-1491-0)
A new edition of this highly successful Pocket Guide. This illustrated Pocket Guide is the first short, popular, general survey of Welsh history to be published since 1930.
It traces the main outlines of the history of Wales from the settlements by the Celts to the invasion by Romans and Normans, the conquest by Edward I of England, the passage of the Acts of Union, the impact of the Reformation, Puritanism and Methodism, the effects of the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions and the changes in political, social and economic life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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The Literature of Wales (ISBN 0708312659)
'Dafydd Johnston's book is a small masterpiece of compression and balance . . . For anyone approaching this subject for the first time, or for someone wanting to get an overall view of it, this book is going to be invaluable.' (Planet)
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 | Owain Glyndwr (ISBN 0708319416)
An excellent introduction to one of the most important personalities in the history of Wales.
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Place Names of Wales (ISBN 0708314589)
Much has been written recently about place-names. The media and popular press provide ample evidence of a current surge of interest in the names that surround us. This surely reflects a greater awareness of our environment, an appreciation of the wealth of local history and, in Wales, a more sophisticated response to the interplay of two languages. This book is an accessible work of reference for anyone who wishes to learn something about the place-names of Wales.
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 | Princes of Wales (ISBN 0708320031)
This up-to-date and concise overview covers the origins of the title Prince of Wales, and the lives and activities of its holders. The first book on the subject for over twenty years, it acts as a useful companion volume to Princesses of Wales by the same author.
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Princesses of Wales (ISBN 0708319369)
' . . . a compelling and attractive volume which is both informative and entertaining - a real joy to read.' J. Graham Jones, National Library of Wales
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 | The Quiz Guide to Wales (ISBN 0-7083-1505-4)
The Pocket Quiz Guide to Wales contains almost 1,600 questions about Wales and the Welsh . . . some difficult, some easy, some common knowledge, some to grapple with, some fun, some serious, some simple, some tricky . . . some challenge!
On these pages you'll find things that you didn't know, things that you really should have known, you'll be pleased to find things that you do know, and you'll be surprised at just how much there is to know, about Wales in all its glory.
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Roman Wales (ISBN 0708316751)
The Roman period in Wales was of exceptional importance in the development of the country and left a
lasting historical and archaeological legacy. This fully-illustrated Pocket Guide: Roman Wales is the first study of this period aimed at the general reader.
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 | The Welsh Language (ISBN 070831516X)
This accessible and comprehensive introduction traces the development of the Welsh language from its origins, which extend back at least 2,500 years within Britain, to the present day, when about half a million people speak Welsh.
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Wales in Quotation (ISBN 0-7083-1560-7)
A Pocket Guide
Meic Stephens
viii152pp 186x123mm October 1999 paperback
In this book Meic Stephens has gathered together more than 1,000 quotations about Wales and the Welsh, drawn from sources both native and foreign, literary and comic, favourable and hostile. Topics range from landscape, language and religion to politics, popular culture and the arts.
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