WAL - General
The National Library of Wales have issued twice yearly journals since 1939. There is a listing of their contents on the Wales pages for Genuki where suitable articles are being extracted. The contents listing can be viewed on http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/NLWjournals.html and extracts are linked from there.
Welsh Journals Online is a website of the National Library of Wales. A list of the publications covered is available here. | |
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales Samuel Lewis 1849. Fourth edition, originally published in two volumes. Contains detailed topographical accounts of places, parishes and counties in Wales, arranged alphabetically. |
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Welsh Murders Volume 1: 1770-1918. By Peter Fuller and Brian Knapp. Published by Christopher Davies 1986 . Here is a contents listing and names listing. | Christopher Challener |
Welsh Police Forces. Ross Mather is a well known authority on Welsh Police Forces, running two web sites, www.britishpolicehelmet.co.uk and www.policehistorysocietyofwales.co.uk . He is often able to help make identifications through old photographs and having studied Welsh police forces over a 35 - 40 year period and has a number of books and lists that contain records of those having served in Welsh police forces from their beginnings. |
Ross Mather |
Industrial Development of South Wales, by A H John. University of Wales Press , 1950 | Withdrawn |
Before Rebecca: Popular Protests in Wales 1793-1835.
By David J.V. Jones (pub.Allen Lane 1973). There is a further
description of the book's contents on Gareth's
Help Page. There are snippets relating to the counties of
Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Glamorgan
based on this book on Not
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Victorian and Edwardian Wales from old photographs. Introduction and commentary by E D Jones. Batsford 1972. An introduction and index of photographs | Online |
A Mirror of Medieval Wales, Gerald of Wales and His Journey of 1188. Charles Kightly; Cadw, 1988. See Introduction and list of chapter headings and features on Gareth's Help Page. | |
The Cambrian Journal Volume 1 , 1854. Published under the auspices of the Cambrian Institute. London, Longmans & Co; Tenby, R Mason. See a complete listing of the contents index. . | Online |
The Matter of Wales (Epic views of a small country), by Jan Morris, published in 1984 by Oxford. Revised Penguin ed.2000. It is possibly best described as a celebration of Welshness. The author covers history, the literature and language, the landscape and traditions.There are illustrations of life today and their connections to the past | Withdrawn |
Wales : Nation & Region by Mervyn Phillips, Gomer 1997.A brief review and list of chapter headings | Online |
The People of Wales Ed. Gareth Elwyn Jones and Dai Smith, 1999. A brief review and list of chapter headings. | Gareth's Help Page |
The Lost Houses of Wales - by Thomas Lloyd - this is a survey, complete with photographs of country houses in Wales demolished since c.1900 | Sian Bowi |
The Welsh House . A Study in Folk Culture. By Iorwerth C Peate, Honourable Society of Cymrodorion, 1940. A review and a listing of the Contents, Illustrations, Figures and houses and sites mentioned. | Online |
The Castles of South-West Wales by Mike Salter 1996; The Observer's Book of Castles by Brian K.Davison 1979 ; Welsh Castles produced by Photo Precision Ltd. | Katy Jenkins |
Early Wales Re-created by Alan Sorrell 1980 | Katy Jenkins |
Ghosts & Legends of Wales by J.A.Brooks 1987 | Katy Jenkins |
The Third Day, Landscape & the Word (Welsh Poetry & Photo's) by Kathy Miles & John Reed 1995 | Katy Jenkins |
The Welsh Cattle Drovers By Richard J Colyer 1976. A contents listing/introduction and an online index compiled by Catherine Davies-Shiel. | Onliine |
Wales and the Drovers; the historical background of an epoch. By P G Hughes, 1944 An index by Gareth Hicks | Online |
Land and People in C19 Wales by David Howell 1977. An introduction to the book with chapter headings. | Online |
The Edwardes Legacy | Wendy Angove |
Romilly's Visits to Wales 1827-1854. Extracts from the Diaries of the Rev. Joseph Romilly. By M G R Morris. Gomer, 1998. ISBN 1-85902-454-8. A brief review and list of chapter headings. | Online |
Who's Who in Welsh History by Deborah C Fisher 1997 | Huw Daniel |
Llyfryddiaeth Cylchgronau Cymreig [A Bibliography of Welsh Periodicals 1735 - 1850] NLW, 1993 . By Huw Walters. This contains detailed descriptions of the 195 titles which were published within that period, including lists of editors, publishers, printers, place of publication, place of printing etc. An introduction to the book by the author. | Genuki |
Subject Index to Welsh Periodicals 1931-1955. 7 volumes bound as one book giving an alphabetical index of subject and the appropriate reference. It refers to both English language and Welsh language periodicals. The subjects are very diverse ; people,places,"things",medical conditions,languages , buildings etc etc. Vol 1 1931, Vol 2 1932-33 , Vol 3 1934-35 , Vol 4 1936-37 , Vol 5 1938-40 , Vol 6 1941-45. Vol 7 1946-1955 | Pat Powell |
Reference Wales by John May 1994 | Withdrawn |
Criminal Register Indexes 1805 - 1816 Wales &
Mon (Pub by Family History Indexes ( Stuart Tamblin)) (also
supplement of executions, rioters and machine breakers) ; Courts Martials 1914 - 1921 (Family History Indexes ) (Stuart Tamblin ) ; Soldiers executed 1914 - 1920 ( Family History Indexes) (Stuart Tamblin ) |
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Crime and Punishment in England & Wales- an Outline History. By Eldon Smith, Gomer, 1986. A brief review and list of chapter headings. | Online |
Crime in Nineteenth Century Wales by David J.V.Jones. UWP | Raynor Lewis |
Crime and Policing in the Twentieth Century (The South Wales Experience). By David J.V.Jones . UWP | Raynor Lewis |
People, Protest and Politics. Case studies in C19 Wales. By David Egan, Gomer 1987. See a brief review and list of chapter headings on Gareth's Help Page | Huw Daniel |
People and Protest : Wales 1815-1880 by Trevor Herbert & Gareth Elwyn Jones. UWP | Raynor Lewis |
The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dwr [ 1400-1409 ] by R R Davies 1995 It is name indexed. A brief introduction and list of chapter headings. | Online |
Valleys of Song by Gareth Williams (1998). Music and Society in Wales 1840 - 1914. Loads of names and information on choirs, singers, musicians, writers etc. | Jeff Lewis |
Land of my Fathers-2000 years of Welsh History by Gwynfor Evans...published by Y Lolfa Cyf in Talybont, Ceredigion, 1992...Indexed.A brief introduction and list of chapter headings is available on Gareth's Help Page | Elaine Barsosky |
Personalities of Wales and The Marches by Kenneth M. Bryant published by Mr. Bryant September 1997. This book is narrow in scope; however, if anyone had an interest in Robert Ferrar, Bishop, 1505-1555 or John Kyrle, Esq., 1637-1724 or Richard Price 1723-1791 or Hugh Price Hughes 1847-1902 or Walter Conway, Esq. 1873-1933 or His Honour Sir Owen Temple-Morris, Q.C. 1896-1985 there is detailed biography of all contained within the pages. | Elaine Barsosky |
A Chronicle of Welsh Events by John May | Huw Daniel |
The Customs and Traditions of Wales by Trefor M.Owen reprinted 1998 | Huw Daniel |
Growing Up in Wales 1895-1939. Edited by Jeffrey Grenfell-Hill. Gomer 1996. A brief review and list of chapter headings. | Online |
Books by Canon D.Parry Jones who was Sian's
great uncle .
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Sian Bowi |
Welsh Rural Life in Photographs By Elfyn Scourfield, 1979. Published by Stewart Williams, Barry, ISBN 0 900807 34 2. There is an online index by Jill Smith available on INDEX | No lookups availale |
South Wales from the Bush Collection Volume
2 (Old Pictures) Derek Warry ISBN 0 7524 1126 8 1998 |
Robert Alun Chick |
Pobl Wrth Eu Gwaith/People at Work . D. Lewis, Gwasg Gomer, Llandysul 1987. ISBN 0-86383-367-5. Also largely from the St Fagans collection.Covers all Wales. There is an index by Jill Smith available on INDEX | No lookups available |
Enwogion Cymru, published in 1870 | Sian Bowi |
Welsh Political and Educational Leaders in the Victorian Era by J.Vyrnwy Morgan, 1908 | Sian Bowi |
Welsh Convict Women by Deirdre Beddoe - a study of women transported from Wales to Australia 1787 - 1852. | Sian Bowi |
Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families by J.E.Griffith, 1914. This is recommended for Welsh research by the LDS. Nominally, it refers to gentry estates in these counties but it covers, although not initially, all South Wales and all the old Welsh Kingdoms. | Glyn Jones |
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