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 | The Politics of the Principality: Wales, c.1603-1642 (ISBN 0708319068)
Politics of the Principality provides a wholly new perspective on Welsh politics in the troubled decades leading up to the Civil War. This is the first study for over half a century to examine politics in Wales during this period, and draws upon a wealth of new material in local and national archives.
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Price: £45.00
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Law and Disorder in Early Modern Wales (ISBN 9780708319949)
This book is based on a detailed study of the court records of the county of Denbighshire in north-east Wales, focusing on the period from 1660 to 1730.
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Price: £45.00
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 | The Monastic Order in South Wales, 1066-1349 (ISBN 0-7083-0942-9 )
F. G. Cowley
pp viii317 paperback edition 1986
This volume deals with the political, social, economic and spiritual aspects of monasticism in south Wales between the Norman conquest of England and the Black Death, a period of growth, maturity and change.
` . . . a most impressive book. He writes with clarity...his book must be warmly welcomed . . . ' (Welsh History Review)
` . . . Dr Cowley has written a pleasing and authoritative study. The lucidity of his exposition makes it pleasing and its impeccable scholarship makes it authoritative . . . Dr Cowley has presented us with a full, accurate and fascinating analysis of Welsh monasticism in south Wales during its Golden Age . . . ' (Journal of Ecclesiastical History)
` . . . a splendid book for those interested in medieval monasticism and or the history of Wales. (British Book News)
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Price: £8.50
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Literature, Religion and Society in Wales 1660-1730 (ISBN 0-7083-0669-1)
'The aim of this book is to overturn the long-held Methodist view of Welsh history. For the Methodists, the period between the Restoration of 1660 and the beginning of the Great Revival in the 1730s is one of 'dark and deathly slumber' the old nonconformists 'dry (or desiccated) dissenters' and Anglicans 'lukewarm timeservers'. The considerable Welsh printed literature of the period, moralistic and pious in tone, has long been ignored by Welsh readers and critics because of its fairly low literary value, but it is here put to excellent use by Dr Jenkins to show that the Welsh people were subjected to a series of intense moral campaigns, which tried to bring home to the bulk of the population the truths of the sixteenth-century Reformation . . . In the latter part of the book Dr Jenkins turns from the aims of religion to the authors themselves, the nascent printing and publishing trades, and to the subscribers, readers and collectors of books . . . '(History)
`The author displays sound judgment and discrimination; he writes well and does not weary the reader with extended quotations; he has a sharp eye for the telling illustrations and a lightness of touch even when dealing with such formidable subjects as moral imperatives . . . ' (Journal of Modern History)
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Price: £45.00
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| | Cardiff and the Marquesses of Bute (ISBN 0708307612)
The Bute estate, held by the family from 1766 to 1947, was of central importance in the social, political and cultural life of Glamorgan. Even more significant, both to the history of Wales and to the history of aristocratic participation in economic development was the family's crucial contribution to the rise of the port of Cardiff, and to the growth of the south Wales iron and coal trade. The book contains chapters on the family, the estate and its administration, the estate and the local community, the agricultural estate, the urban estate, the mineral estate and on Bute involvement in docks and railways.
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Price: £35.00
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The North Wales Quarrymen 1874-1922 (ISBN 0708308295)
This book is about the struggle of quarrymen to organize and combine in the slate quarries and mines of north Wales, and particularly in the giant Penrhyn quarries. It was a battle for survival fought in very distinctive communities, but the struggle witnessed some of the most bitter and dramatic disputes in the history of the British working class. The author is concerned with one basic strand in the history of the quarrying communities of north Wales: the conflict between men and master. An account is given of the central tensions in the slate villages and quarries, tensions which culminated in the desperate pitched battles of the Penrhyn lock-outs of 1896-7 and 1900-3.
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Price: £14.99
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| | The Governance of Gwynedd (ISBN 0-7083-0850-3)
This book investigates the governance exercised by the 13th-Century Princes of Gwynedd, particularly Llywelyn the Great (fl. 1194-1240) and Llywelyn the Last (fl.1243-1282) as they strove to extend their political control over much of Wales. The analysis rests on the combination of many different classes of evidence, literary texts, Welsh Laws, 13th and 14th century record sources and the results of archaeological work. After a descriptive survey of the work of the Princes officials, the range of revenues available to the Princes is discussed, as are their attempts to increase their income. The recruitment of a privileged Ministerial elite is examined and detailed prosopographical analysis revealed the Princes attempts to overcome the segmentary nature of the political structure. Finally, attention is focused on the ways in which the rise of the Llywelyns and the increased pressures of governance imposed by their ambitions created tensions within Gwynedd and contributed to the final collapse of native rule in Wales.
`Carefully researched and elegantly written, this challenging and exciting volume represents a most significant contribution to our understanding of thirteenth-century Welsh politics, economy and society, and also of fascinating processes and problems of medieval governance.' (History)
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Price: £45.00
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'Organise! Organise! Organise!' (ISBN 0-7083-1078-8 )
A Study of Reform Agitations in Wales, 1840 - 1886
Ryland Wallace
pp xvi267 1991 hardback
The late 1830s in Wales were years of unprecedented popular protest with Chartism attracting mass support and climaxing in the dramatic Newport Rising of November 1839. Subsequently, reformers urged legal, peaceful agitation for reform, and the exhortation `Organise! Organise! Organise!' was a common one. This book brings new research to bear on the character, growth and operation of crusading pressure groups and reform movements in Wales during the following half-century.
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Price: £25.00
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| | The Labyrinth of Flames: Work and Social Conflict in Early Industrial Merthyr Tydfil (ISBN 0-7083-1159-8)
The Labyrinth of Flames examines the impact of the iron industry on the parish of Merthyr Tydfil between the 1760s and the end of the Napoleonic wars, the period in which Merthyr emerged as the greatest centre of iron production in the world. This book looks at how labour was organised within the `flaming labyrinths' that made up the giant ironworks at Cyfarthfa and Dowlais: how the ironmasters struggled to assert their authority over their independently-minded workmen, and the means by which workmen thwarted attempts to subordinate them to an iron capitalism. The antagonism between masters and workmen was ingrained in the new industrial society at Merthyr, but it was not the only point of conflict. The indigenous hill farmers of the parish, many of whom had been reared in a tradition of radical religious dissent, resented the ecological devastation which the ironmasters visited upon the district. Not least, the ironmasters were fiercely divided amongst themselves, as each strove to snap up the mineral resources upon which their enrichment depended.
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Price: £45.00
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Leaders and Teachers: (ISBN 0-7083-1219-5 )
Adult Education and the Challenge of Labour in South Wales, 1906-1940
Richard Lewis
pp xxiv271 1993 hardback
`The aim of this book is to explain the struggle for the minds of the leaders and active members of the organised working class in south Wales during the first half of the twentieth century. The book shows how the workers' education movement was divided, almost from the outset, by a deep idealogical gulf between the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) and the Central Labour College (CLC) movement. . .This is a well-documentede study which, unlike previous writing on the workers' education movement, examines both the WEA and CLC movements as essentailly a single phenomenon. It thus avoids the often openly partisan approaches to these two movements adopted in earlier studies.' (Social History Society Bulletin)
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Price: £20.00
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| | Learning, Law and Religion (ISBN 0-7083-1314-0 )
Higher Education and Welsh Society c.1540-1640
W. P. Griffith
pp xvii486 1996 hardback
A study of the impact of Renaissance and Reformation scholarship on Welsh society and its leading members. It seeks to show how broadly disseminated was this scholarship in a part of the kingdom of England which was often regarded as remote and backward. In the absence of its own civic and court traditions, Wales depended heavily on English educational institutions.
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Price: £45.00
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The Crisis of Community in Eighteenth-Century Wales (ISBN 0-7083-1315-9 )
Montgomeryshire 1680-1815
Melvin Humphreys
Out of print
The chapel and the coal-mine have become the symbols of the Welsh experience in the eighteenth century. This study argues for a broader perspective of the great changes confronting the Welsh community.
' . . . a pioneering study . . . ' (Northern History)
' . . . its elegegantly written and logicaly-arugued pages are a credit both to Dr Humphreys himself and the scholarship of the series editors . . . his book is a fine example of the genre.' (Agricultural History Review)
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| | Law, Order and Government in Caernarfonshire (ISBN 0-7083-1332-9 )
The Justices of the Peace and the Gentry
J. Gwynfor Jones
pp xiv240 1996 hardback
A thorough examination of the role of Tudor government and its personnel in an essentially Welsh context, and an analysis of the impact of the Acts of Union on the mechanics of local government in Caernarfonshire. This is important because it adds another dimension to historians' knowledge and understanding of the manner in which local gentry, in collaboration with regional institutions, sought to maintain peace and security in the generations after the Acts of Union.
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Price: £25.00
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Building Jerusalem: Nonconformity, Labour and the Social Question in Wales, 1906-1939 (ISBN 0-7083-1413-9)
' . . . 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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 | Aftermath: Remembering the Great War in Wales (ISBN 0708316808)
This book provides the first comprehensive examination of the social and political significance of remembrance in Wales. It places the commemoration process within the wider context of Welsh history in the decade following the Great War, and studies the impact of that war upon local communities and the ways in which those communities chose to remember the fallen.
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Price: £16.99
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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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 | Immigration and Integration: The Irish in Wales, 1798-1922 (ISBN 0708317677)
This is the first book-length study of the Irish in modern Wales. Emigration has been one of the defining experiences of modern life for the Irish, and a significant number of the Irish diaspora settled in Wales during the nineteenth century. In this pioneering work Paul O’Leary examines the causes of emigration and seeks to understand the experience of Irish immigrants in Wales.
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Price: £16.99
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Civilizing the Urban: Popular Culture and Public Space in Merthyr c.1870-1914 (ISBN 0-7083-1637-9)
Early industrial Merthyr is synonymous with the darker side of the British urban experience. The spectacular rates of urban growth, the acute social unrest and the appallingly high death rates that shocked and horrified many Victorian observers continue to command the attention of historians. In contrast, attempts to construct a ciivic image for the town in the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras have gone unnoticed.
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Price: £45.00
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 | North Wales Miners: A Fragile Unity, 1945-1996 (ISBN 0708317065)
Offers a new insight into mining history. It moves away from the industrial south and examines the recent history of the north Wales coalfield and its place in working-class history.
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Price: £29.00
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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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 | 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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The Monastic Order in South Wales, 1066-1349 (ISBN 0-7083-0942-9 )
F. G. Cowley
pp viii317 paperback edition 1986
This volume deals with the political, social, economic and spiritual aspects of monasticism in south Wales between the Norman conquest of England and the Black Death, a period of growth, maturity and change.
` . . . a most impressive book. He writes with clarity...his book must be warmly welcomed . . . ' (Welsh History Review)
` . . . Dr Cowley has written a pleasing and authoritative study. The lucidity of his exposition makes it pleasing and its impeccable scholarship makes it authoritative . . . Dr Cowley has presented us with a full, accurate and fascinating analysis of Welsh monasticism in south Wales during its Golden Age . . . ' (Journal of Ecclesiastical History)
` . . . a splendid book for those interested in medieval monasticism and or the history of Wales. (British Book News)
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Price: £14.99
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| | Wales in America: Scranton and the Welsh 1860-1920 (ISBN 0-7083-1387-6)
Available in North America from Scranton University Press
This book focuses on Scranton, the epicentre of Welsh America during its golden era. The author examines cultural life, the literary and musical societies, eisteddfodau and religious groups as well as other aspects of popular culture such as insobriety and sports that the leaders of the Welsh community frowned upon. He also analyses the self-image of Welsh America as reflected in its own newspapers and periodicals; the relationship of the Welsh with other ethnic groups; and, of course, the anthracite industry which in its boom years drew thousands of skilled Welsh miners across the Atlantic.
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Price: £14.99
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Welsh Military Institutions, 633-1283 (ISBN 0708318363)
The first book to attempt a serious study of medieval Welsh military organization, strategy, tactics and conduct in war.
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Price: £30.00
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 | ‘A Glorious Work in the World’: Welsh Methodism and the International Evangelical Revival, 1735–50 (ISBN 0708318703)
The Welsh revival was one constituent element of this much wider pan-Protestant awakening. This survey focuses on the relationship of the Welsh revival with its various sister awakenings in England, Scotland, Ireland, parts of France, Germany and the American colonies.
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Price: £45.00
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Intelligent Town: An Urban History of Swansea, 1780-1855 (ISBN 070831905X)
This is the first full-length study of Swansea's urban development from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century.
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Price: £45.00
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 | Devolution In Wales: Claims and Responses, 1937-1979 (ISBN 0708319904)
This book shows how devolution was an issue in Welsh politics during the period under review, how British governments responded to devolutionists’ demands, and how much was eventually conceded.
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Price: £45.00
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Unemployment, Poverty and Health in Interwar South Wales (ISBN 0708320422)
This study examines the human costs of unemployment and poverty through a study of the health of the population of south Wales.
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Price: £45.00
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| | Labour’s Crisis: The Decline of the Labour Party and the Rise of Plaid Cymru in North-West Wales, 1960-1975 (ISBN 0708319963)
A study of political change in modern Wales, concentrating on the sustained challenge to the Labour Party’s dominance in Wales by the emerging political voice of Plaid Cymru from the mid 1960’s onwards.
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Price: £45.00
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