Wales

Contents

A Wales Bibliography

Books of General Interest for Family Historians

It is acknowledged that the principal source of the details of books etc included  on these pages is the online catalogues of the National Library of Wales
- supplemented by reference to the RHS Bibliography site

  It is obviously not practicable  to list all the books ever written  relating to Wales, this is a randomly chosen selection.
Books marked # have an entry on the separate 'Review/Contents' page.

 Here is a separate substantial reading list of books which relate to Glamorgan, either county or parish, and south Wales in general.  

Archives and Libraries

•  Malaws, Hilary. The National Monuments Record of Wales. Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry. Edited by John & Sheila Rowlands. FFHS, 1999

Bibliography

• Ballinger, John & Jones, James Ifano.   Catalogue of printed literature in the Welsh Department   Cardiff, Free Libraries 1898  - the complete book is accessible on the Internet Archive site - click on Texts and search on Welsh Department
• Bibliography of the History of Wales. UWP, 1962
• Jones, P.H. A Bibliography of the History of Wales. Cardiff, 1989, microfiche.
• Jones, Philip Henry & Eiluned Rees (eds). A Nation and its Books. A history of the book in Wales. 1998
• Jones, Sally Roberts.  Books of Welsh Interest. The Welsh Books Council, 1977, it covers titles published up to March of that year.
  • Gives;  Author,Title,Publisher, Number of pages, ISBN number and price (in 1977). A short (one, two or three line) description of contents. There are about 1000 titles in all. Section 1 covers general matters and Section 2 covers literature.
• Parry, Charles. Libri Walliae; A Catalogue of Welsh Books and Books Printed in Wales 1546-1820
• Rees, Eiluned. Libri Walliae Supplement; A Catalogue of Welsh Books and Books Printed in Wales 1546-1820. NLW, 2001
• Turner Evans, H. A Bibliography of Welsh Hymnology to 1960. Welsh Lib. Assn. 1977

Biography

• Breverton, T. 100 Great Welshmen. Welsh Books, 2001.
• Breverton, T. 100 Great Welsh Women. Welsh Books, 2001
• Bryant, Kenneth.   Personalities of Wales and The Marches ,1997.
  • Detailed biographies of ; Robert Ferrar, Bishop, 1505-1555 ; John Kyrle, Esq., 1637-1724 ; Richard Price 1723-1791 ; Hugh Price Hughes 1847-1902 ; Walter Conway, Esq. 1873-1933 ; His Honour Sir Owen Temple-Morris, Q.C. 1896-1985 .
• Cavenagh, F A. Griffith Jones. 1930
• Davies, Twiston & Averyl Edwards. Women of Wales. 1935
• Evans, Joseph. Biographical dictionary of ministers and preachers of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Body or Presbyterians of Wales; from the start of the denomination to the close of the year 1850  (1907)   - the complete book is accessible on the Internet Archive site - click on Texts and search on Welsh Calvinistic Methodist
• Fisher, Deborah C.   Who's Who in Welsh History . 1997
• Hartley, E Mary.  'Baron' Lewis Owen of Dolgellau and his Descendants. Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry. Edited by John & Sheila Rowlands. FFHS, 1999. describes the part they played in the affairs of the communities in which they lived.
• Jenkins, R T [ed]. The Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940. Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, London, 1959. A second volume The Dictionary of Welsh Biography, 1941-1970 was published by the HSC in 2001. See also Welsh versions below. An online searchable version is on this NLW site (Digital Mirror)
• Morgan, J. Vyrnwy, D.D. (ed.) Welsh Political and Educational Leaders in the Victorian Era. 1908 (London) 731pp. inc. list of subscribers and extensive intro. 57 'lives', each accompanied by a b/w portrait.
• Morgan, T. Enwogion Cymreig (1700-1900). 1907
• Morgan, Rev J Vyrnwy. Welsh Religious Leaders in the Victorian Era.   James Nisbet & Co, 1905.  pp542   - the complete book is accessible on the Internet Archive site - click on Texts and search on Welsh Religious Leaders
• Nicholas, T. Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales. 1872, repro Baltimore, 1991.
• Nuttall, G F. Howel Harris, 1714-73 : the Last Enthusiast. 1965
• Owen, Henry. Gerald the Welshman. London, 1904.
• Rees, T Mardy. Notable Welshmen (1700-1900). 1908
• Roberts, T R. A Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen.Cardiff, 1908 - the complete book is accessible on the Internet Archive site - click on Texts and search on Cardiff
• Rowland, E H. Eminent Welshmen (1700-1900). 1907
• Who's Who in Wales. 1920, 1933, 1937.
• Williams, Robert [Rev]. A Biographical Sketch of some of the most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation. 1836
• Williams, Robert (Rev). Eminent Welshmen (A Biographical Dictionary). Llandovery,1852
• Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940, Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig 1941-1950 & Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig 1951-1970 . Honourable Society of Cymrodorion . These 3 volumes are biographical dictionaries of notable Welsh people who had died before 1940, between 1941 & 50 and between 1951 & 70.
  An online searchable version is on the NLW site  (Digital Mirror)

Census

• Gibson, J.S.W. and Medlycott, M.T. Local Census Listings 1522-1930 (2nd ed.), Birmingham, Fed. of Fam. Hist. Soc. (1994) 52 pp. [ISBN 1-872094-75-9]. Extracted  are details of local censuses in Wales, listed by county

Church History

See also under Religion and Religious Life below

• Bell, P M H. Irish and Welsh Disestablishment. 1969
• Davies, Alun R. Introducing the Church in Wales . Penarth : Church in Wales Publications, 1991.
• Davies, J C. (ed.). Episcopal acts relating to Welsh dioceses 1066-1272. Historical Society of the Church in Wales, no. 1, 1946
• Davies P & S Lloyd-Fern. Lost Churches of Wales & the Marches. 1990
• Edwards, A G [Archbishop]. Landmarks in the History of the Welsh Church. 1912
• Green, C A H. Disestablishment and Disendowment; the Experience of the Church in Wales. 1935
• Gregory, Donald.   Country Churchyards In Wales . Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 1991, indexed by Place Name.
• Harris, C & R Startup. The Church in Wales: the Sociology of a Traditional Institution. UWP, Cardiff, 1999.
• Hill, William, 1770-1827; Waller, David James; Pawson, John, 1737-1806.  An alphabetical arrangement of all the Wesleyan Methodist ministers and preachers on trail in connexion with the British and Irish Conferences. also, a list of the presidents of the Conference from 1791 to 1892; and an alphabetical list of the ministers who have died in the work. Published  in 1896 ?
• Himbury, D. Mervyn. THE SOUTH WALES BAPTIST COLLEGE (1807-1957). Gomerian Press, Llandysul, 1957
• Hughes, William. A History of the Church of the Cymry. London, 1894
• #Jones, Anthony. Welsh Chapels. Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd (Stroud, Gloucestershire) in association with the National Museums & Galleries of Wales. Original published 1984 revised edition 1996.
• Jones, R Tudur. Hanes Annibyniaeth Cymru. 1966
• Jones, Penri. Capeli Cymru. Y Lolfa, 1980
• Knight, Frances. 'The education of Welsh ordinands in the Rowland Williams era and beyond' . Welsh Journal of Religious History, 1 (2006), 14-26. Publisher: Centre for the Advanced Study of Religion in Wales. ISSN 0967-3938.
• Morgan, J Vyrnwy [ed]. Welsh Religious Leaders in the Victorian Era. 1905
• Newell, E J. A history of the Welsh Church. 1895
• Rees, Thomas & Thomas, John. Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru. 1873 - here is a listing of the NAMES of chapels/places from each county's contents page from the CD of this 4 volume book published by Archive CD Books. There are also a complete extract of the chapel histories for 9 of the 14 Welsh counties -  in Welsh, many with translations .
• Rees, Thomas. History of Protestant Nonconformity in Wales. 2nd ed, 1883
• Stephens, T [ed].   Welsh Independent Church (Yr Eglwys Annibynol Cymru), published and printed by Joseph Williams of Merthyr Tydfil, 1888. It contains biographies of 267 past students ordained between 1755 and 1880. The theological college moved from Abergavenny to Oswestry, to Llanfyllin and to Newtown before coming to rest at Brecon.
• The Church in Wales , 1939 and 1959, Official Handbooks . They include brief career details (similar to those appearing in "Crockford") for all clergy active in the Church in Wales at the relevant dates
• The Welsh Church Year Book 1929. Published by The Representative Body of The Church in Wales. Cardiff, 1928. pp 624 including over 130 pages of biographies of clergy. A Cd containing a scanned copy of the book was published by Archive CD Books in 2002. With the permission of the latter part of the statistical data for parishes in the counties of Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire has been extracted onto those GENUKI parish pages. The Explanatory notes state that;
  • Where parishes have been grouped or divided then the acreage is unreliable, some town figures are not given.
  • Population figures are according to the 1921 census returns.
• Vaughan, Herbert Millingchamp. The Church in Wales from the Reformation to the Present Day. A brief Historical Sketch in Four Essays. W Spurrell, 1910.
• Walker, David.[ed]. A History of the Church in Wales. C of E , 1976 & 1990.
• Walters, Dr Huw. ' Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru. Llyfrau a Llyfrynnau: Siroedd Ceredigion, Dinbych, Fflint, Meirionydd, M^on, Morgannwg, Mynwy, Penfro', Y Cofiadur, 52 (1987), pp.27-35. A bibliography of Welsh Congregational chapel histories
• Williams, Glanmor. The Welsh Church from Conquest to Reformation. 2nd ed., UWP, 1976

Church Records

• Clifford, D.J.H. My Ancestors were Congregationalists [In England & Wales, with a list of extant Registers and their whereabouts]. SoG, 1992.
• Ifans, Dafydd [ed]. Cofrestri Anghydfurol Cymru/ Nonconformist Registers of Wales. Aberystwyth, 1994. This book includes Ordnance Survey references for listed chapels.
• MacDonald, R W. The Parish Registers of Wales, National Library of Wales journal. 1976, Winter. Volume XIX/4
• Williams, C.J. and Watts-Williams, J. Cofrestri Plwyf Cymru: Parish Registers of Wales (National Index of Parish Registers, Vol. 13).Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, Second edition, 2000.

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Court Records

• An Index of Welsh debtors in the Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, 1804-1862. Published by the London branch of Welsh Family History Societies, Sept 2001.
  • This is an index of Welsh people who were recorded in the London Gazette as having gone through the Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors for England [and Wales]. There are 6684 debtors indexed plus over a thousand "reference" entries such as variant names, business partners, landlords, relations and so on. An extensive 14 one through the Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors for England [and Wales]. There are 6684 debtors indexed plus over a thousand "reference" entries such as variant names, business partners, landlords, relations and so on. An extensive 14 page introduction written by Stephen van Dulken accompanies the index. It is to be sold as a 10 fiche set by the London branch of the Dyfed FHS.
• Parry, Glyn. A Guide to the Records of the Great Sessions in Wales. NLW, 1995.
• Phillips, J R S. The Justices of the Peace in Wales and Monmouthshire  1541-1689, Cardiff, 1975
• Probate Records in the National Library of Wales, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth (1990).
• Tamblin, Stuart. Criminal Register Indexes 1805 - 1816 Wales & Mon (Pub by Family History Indexes(also supplement of executions, rioters and machine breakers

Description and Travel

• Archer, M Scott. Welsh Post Towns before 1840. 1970
• Banks, R. W. (intro.) The Account of the Official Progress of His Grace Henry the First Duke of Beaufort through Wales in 1684. 1888 (London) By Photo- lithography from the Original MS of Thomas Dinely. 479pp. + preface and index. gilt coat of arms on front. bookplate of Edmund Leake of Ludlow, foldout maps, numerous drawings in text. fascinating detail of people met and places seen.
• Bezant Lowe, W. The Heart of Northern Wales. 2 vols 1912 & 1927.
• Black's. Picturesque guide through Wales, north, south, and Monmouthshire. 1869
• Borrow, George. Wild Wales (1862), 1980, William Collins Sons & Co.Ltd. And by Gwasg Gomer.
• Bowen, E G. Wales: a Physical, Historical and Regional Geography. Cardiff, 2nd ed, 1967
• Bradley, A G. Highways and Byways in North Wales. Macmillan, London, 1898.
• Bradley, A G. Highways and Byways in South Wales. Macmillan, London, 1914.
• Breverton, T. An A to Z of Wales and the Welsh. Christopher Davies 2000
• Camden's Wales; Edward Lhuyd's description of the Welsh Counties. Rampart Press, Carmarthen, 1984.(From Camden's Britannia 1722)
• Carter, Harold . The Towns of Wales: A Study in Urban Geography. 1965 (Univ. Wales Press, Cardiff) .362pp. inc. Intro. and Index.101 figs
• Carter, H. & Davies W. K. D. (eds.) Urban Essays: Studies in the Geography of Wales. 1970 (Longman) 289pp. inc. Postscript and Indexes. 66 maps
• Carter, Harold. The Growth of the Welsh City System.  UWP, 1969
• Colyer, R J.  Roads and Trackways of Wales. 1984 (Moorland Publishing) 192pp. inc. suggestions for further reading, glossary of Welsh words and terms, and index. illus.maps and numerous b/w photos. chapters on: The Romans in the Mid-West, Some Medieval and Early Modern Roads in Cardiganshire, Pre- Turnpike Roads in Radnorshire, The Drovers, The Turnpike Era.
• Condry, W. Exploring Wales. Faber, 1970.
• Cooke, G A. Topographical and Statistical Description of the Principality of Wales, London 1818.
• David, Kirk (ed). A Tour in Wales (Thomas Pennant). Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 1998
• Fenton, Richard. Tours in Wales (1804-1813). Cambrian Arch Ass., 1917
• Gastineau, H. Wales Illustrated, North & South. 2 vols. 183?.
• Gerald of Wales, The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales. Translated by Lewis Thorpe. 1978
• Giraldus Cambrensis. The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales   and   The Description of  Wales. Everyman reprint 1919 (1st Everyman ed. 1908) The text is that of Sir Richard Colt Hoare who published an English translation, chiefly from the texts of Camden and Wharton in 1806. 210 pp inc. index. Here is a list of the contents of both books plus two brief extracts from the Introduction.
• Griffiths, Ralph A.[ed]. The Boroughs of Mediaeval Wales. Cardiff, 1978
• Griggs, Frederick.  Highways and Byways of South Wales (illustrated)   1903
• Holding, David & Tony Moyes.      History of British Bus Services: South Wales.   London, 1986
• Hughes, H. The Beauties of Cambria. 1823. Sixty views of north & south Wales
• #Hughes, R Iestyn & O'Leary, Paul. Wales of one hundred years ago. Sutton Publishing/The National Library of Wales, 1999. Fabulous photographs from the National Library of Wales' extensive collection with text taken from contemporary records covering all of Wales. There are nine chapters on subjects such as Industry and Commerce, Rural Society, Culture and Religion, Travel, Entertainment, Politics.
• Jervoise, E. The Ancient Bridges of Wales and Western England. Architectural Press, 1936
• Jones, Gwyn Briwnant & Denis Dunstone. The Railways of Wales circa 1900. Gomer, Llandysul. (1 85902 868 3). Gomer 2002 catalogue;- ".................offer a detailed description of the railways of Wales at the turn of the twentieth century, and some of the changes that have occurred since."
• Kidner, R W.     The Cambrian Railways.    Oakwood Pres,, 2nd ed, 1992
• #Kightly, Charles.  A Mirror of Medieval Wales, Gerald of Wales and His Journey of 1188. Cadw, 1988.
• Lee, Charles E. The Welsh Highland Railway. 2 vols, 1969/70
• Lewis, Eluned and Peter.   The Land of Wales
• Lewis, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Wales . 1833 , 2 volumes. There are also other editions, e.g 1844.  
• Linnard, William.  Welsh Woods and Forests, A History. 1982.  
  • Reprint by Gomer, site intro;"The original edition of this modern classic, which described 'the history and utilisation' of the woodlands of Wales up to the formation of the Forestry Commission in 1919, was published and promptly sold out in 1982. This completely new and updated version describes Wales's woodlands up to the establishment of the Welsh Assembly and the publication of Wales's own forestry strategy in 1999. The volume includes much additional historical material which has come to light since 1982, along with new chapters describing the famous and the big trees of Wales, and summarizing the enormous developments of forestry that transformed the Welsh countryside during the twentieth century."
• Morris, Jan. Wales:Epic Views of a Small Country. Penguin, 2000
• Morris, Jan. Wales from the Air. Ebury Press, 2001
• #Morris, M G R.  Romilly's Visits to Wales 1827-1854. Extracts from the Diaries of the Rev. Joseph Romilly. Gomer, 1998.
• #Morton, H V. In Search of Wales. Methuen , 1932 (Republished  1986).
  • This well-known book was one of a series of travel books by the author. Many things have changed in Wales since it was written but it is worth reading to see Wales impressing a stranger wandering across the country. He did not just look at the scenic areas but also visited the coal-mining valleys of the South and even ventured to visit the National Eisteddfod at Bangor and devoted a whole chapter to an account of it.
• O'Dwyer, S. The Roman Roads of Wales. 1934-37, 6 vols.
• Olliff, Hugh. On Borrow's Trail; Wild Wales Then and Now. Gomer, Llandysul. (1 84323 077 1).
  • Gomer Catalogue 2002 ;- ".......in this accessible modern interpretation of the landscapes and towns that Borrow recorded, Hugh Olliff offers a highly readable synopsis of the people and places that Borrow saw on his travels. The text is accompanied by over 120 colour illustrations of the places he visited together with modern photographs of them as they are today......"
• Palmer, W T. Things seen in north Wales, with many illustrations and map. 1928.
• Parry, Edward. Royal Visits and Progresses to Wales. 1850
• Parry, Edward. The Cambrian Mirror: or the tourist's companion through north Wales. 1850.
• Pennant, Thomas. A Tour in Wales. 1778. Also Tours in Wales, 1810.
• Poucher, W A. Wanderings in Wales. 1949
• Rees, William. Historical Atlas of Wales. 1959
• Rhys, John (ed). Tours in Wales by Thomas Pennant. 2 vols. Caernarvon, 1883.
• Register of Landscapes of Outstanding Historic Interest in Wales, Cadw (Cardiff, 1998)
• Richards, Melville. Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units. Cardiff, 1969
• Roberts T R. The Spas of Wales. Their Medicinal & Curative Properties. post 1883.
• Rowntree, Kenneth & Gwyn Jones (Professor). A Prospect of Wales. A series of 20 water-colours by Kenneth Rowntree and an essay on Wales by Gwyn Jones. Penguin, 1948. A delightful little book of 51 pages.
• Russell, R. Lost Canals of England & Wales. David & Charles, 1971.
• Soulsby, I. The Towns of Medieval Wales. Chichester, 1983
• Story, Alfred.    North Wales   1907
• Thomas, R J. Enwau Afonydd a Nentydd Cymru. GPC, 1938
• Thomas, Roger. A Journey Through Wales. Unichrome, 2002. Full colour pictorial guide to Wales in four regions
• Thorpe, Lewis (trans.). The Journey Through Wales/The Description of Wales (Gerald Cambrensis). Penguin
• Victorian and Edwardian Wales from old photographs. Introduction and commentary by E D Jones. Batsford 1972. Here is a brief introduction and index of the 154 photographs.
• Wales Illustrated-In a Series of Views-Comprising the Picturesque Scenery, Towns, Castles, Seats of the Nobility & Gentry, Antiquities &c-Engraved in Steel from Original Drawings by Henry Gastineau-Accompanied by-Historical and Topographical Descriptions. Published in London in 1836 by Jones & Co, Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square. Reproduced in 2001 on CD by the Archive CD Books Project. Here is a list of engravings in the book.
• Ward, F. The Lakes of Wales. 1931
• Warner, ?. Walk through Wales in August 1797.
• Warner, Richard. A Second Walk through Wales, 4th ed., 1801
• West, J. Village Records. Phillimore, 1982; and Town Records, Phillimore, 1983. Useful bibliography, has some Welsh references.
• Williams, Gwenda (ed) & others. Wales in Our Image. In Books.
• Williams, Herbert.      Stagecoaches in Wales.   Barry, 1977
• Wilton, Andrew.   Turner in Wales.   Mostyn Art Gallery, 1984. Here is a listing of the watercolours and drawings that are actually reproduced in the book
• Wood, John George.   The Principal Rivers of Wales, 1813
• Wyndham, Henry P. A Tour through Monmouthshire and Wales, made in the months of June and July 1774...1777. Salisbury, 1781.

Directories

• A Directory of Wales : Part 1 extracted from the Universal British Directory 1793-1798. An eighteenth century record of the Gentry, Clergy, Lawyers, Physics and the  General Traders of northern and central Wales (Clywd / Gwynedd / Dyfed / Powys) .Wimborne, Dorset: 1998
• Pigot's Directories of North Wales, South Wales and Monmouthshire 1822-3
• Pigot & Co Directory South Wales 1844. An extraction of the general description section from this CD by Archive CD Books, includes population statistics
• Slaters Directory of North and South Wales 1858-1859

Emigration and Immigration

• Ashton, Elwyn T. The Welsh in New Zealand. 198?.
• Beddoe, Deirdre.  Welsh Convict Women - a study of women transported from Wales to Australia 1787 - 1852.
• Bennett, Carol. In Search of the Red Dragon: the Welsh in Canada. Ontario, 1985
• Blackwell, Henry. A bibliography of Welsh Americana. 1942.
• Conway, Alan (ed).   The Welsh in America, letters from the immigrants. Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1961  
• Cymry Llundain Ddoe a Heddiw. (London Welsh people yesterday and today). London, 1956
• Dennis, Ronald D.   The Call of Zion: The Story of the First Welsh Mormon Emigration. Bookcraft,  Salt Lake, 1987
• Dodd, A H. The Character of Early Welsh Emigration to the United States. UWP, 1953(?1957)
• Dodd, A H. Letters from Welsh Settlers in New York State, 1816-44 NLW journal, Vol IX/1, Summer 1955. 'Two bundles of letters from Welsh settlers, preserved in the National Library, give some enlightening glimpses of their life during the pioneering days.'
• Greenslade, David. Welsh Fever - Welsh Activities in the US and Canada Today. 1986
• Hanes Cymry Minnesota. Foreston A Lime Springs, la[Iowa]. Dan Oligaeth, Parchn Thos E Hughes a David Edwards: Mri.Hugh G Roberts a Thomas Hughes   Yn Addurnedig A Darluniau Lluaws O Hen Sefydlwyr, Pregethwyr, A Dynion Cyhoeddus Eraill.   1895, Mankato minn [Minnesota], The Free Press Printing Company.This book deals with the many Welsh who emigrated to Minnesota, often mentions names of parents and other family left behind, sometimes the actual name of the farm. See also an online extract of short biographies from the book
• Hartmann, Edward G. Ph.D.   Americans From Wales 1967 ,The Christopher Publishing House, Boston, Massachusettes, USA
• Jones, A R. The Welsh Builder on Merseyside. Annals and Lives. 1946
• Jones, Aled and Jones, Bill. Welsh Reflections: Y Drych & America 1851-2001. Gomer, Llandysul (1 84323 0216).
  • Gomer Catalogue 2002;- "Y Drych is North America's oldest Welsh newspaper. From its origins in the bustling streets of downtown Manhattan in 1851, it survived the Civil War to emerge in the last decades of the nineteenth century as America's leading Welsh language newspaper, connnecting readers right across the United States and Canada............................this book tells its fascinating story"
• Jones, Bill. Wales in America: Scranton and the Welsh 1860-1920 . Cardiff and Scranton: University of Wales Press and University of Scranton Press, 1993.
• Jones, Bill. 'The Welsh Language and Welsh Identity in a Pennsylvanian Community' in G. H. Jenkins ed., Language and Community in the Nineteenth Century (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998)
• Jones, Bill. 'Cousin Dai and Cousin Dilys' South Australia's nineteenth-century Welsh heritage' , Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, Vol. 29 (1999)
• Jones, Bill. 'Welsh Identities in Ballarat, Australia, during the Late Nineteenth Century', Welsh History Review, 20 (2) (December 2000).
• Jones, Emrys (ed). The Welsh in London, 1500-2000. Hon Society of Cymmrodorion, 2001. Here is a listing of contents and illustrations - with some quotations
• Kneller, Pamela. Welsh Immigrant Women as Wage Earners in Utica, New York, 1860-70. Llafur, vol 5/4 1991
• Knowles, Anne Kelly.  Calvinists Incorporated -- Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier.  University of Chicago, 1997
• Lewis, Idwal. Welsh Newspapers and Journals in the United States of America. National Library of Wales Journal, Summer 1942, Vol II/3 & 4.
• Lloyd, Lewis. Australians from Wales. Gwynedd Archives. 1988
• Nash, M.D. 'The Settler Handbook' . Contains a listing all those who emigrated to South Africa under the 1820 Settlers scheme. Over 1,000 families from across the country sailed on 17 ships on government assisted passages. There are certainly some from Wales
• O'Leary, Dr Paul. Immigration and Integration: the Irish in Wales, 1798-1922.University of Wales Press (2000).
• Owen, Bob. Welsh American Newspapers and Periodicals. National Library of Wales Journal, Winter 1950, Vol VI/ 4.
• Owen, G D. Crisis in Chebut. A chapter in the history of the Welsh Colony in Patagonia. 1977
• Ships of our Ancestors   1983  Genealogical Publishing Co. Contains 264 pages with photographs of ships used in immigration to USA , indexed by ship's name
• Thomas, Peter. Strangers from a Secret Land. Univ. Toronto Press, 1986. Covers Welsh emigration to eastern Canada in the early 19th century.
• Vincentelli, Moira.      The Davies family and Belgian Refugee Artists & Musicians in Wales.         NLW Journal XXII (1981)
• Williams, Daniel Jenkins. The Welsh Community of  Waukesha County (Wisconsin).1926. 
  • This book mentions over 600 individuals who came from the Teifi Valley to Wales/Genesee (Towns), Waukesha County, Eastern Wisconsin, USA in the 1840--1850's period. The abstract lists individuals by family, local nickname, marital relationships, children, shire and farm/parish (if available) in Wales, and some birth and death dates as well as Wisconsin moves.
• Williams, David. The Contribution of Wales to the United States of America. National Library of Wales Journal, Summer 1942, Vol II/3 & 4.
• Williams, Gwyn A. The Search for Beulah Land. The Welsh and the Atlantic Revolution. 1980
• Williams, Gwyn. The Desert and the Dream. A Study of Welsh Colonisation in Chebut 1865-1915. UWP, 1975
• Williams, Peter N. From Wales to Pensylvania. Wales Books, 2002
• Williams, William M.(Gwilym Medi)    Old Mexico on Fire.  The book is about Colonel R. S. Mackenzie's Raid into Mexico on the 15th May 1873, contains poems and ballads in Welsh and English. William Williams left Wales for America on the 28 Feb 1864, family lore is that he came back from there with only one ear, and that the other one was cut off by the Indians.  It is said the family came orginally from Manorfabon, Carmarthenshire, may have lived in Aberdare subsequently. William M Williams died in 1895

Gazetteers

• Lewis, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Wales. 1st ed 1833, various later editions up to 1850. Many  of the Wales county parish pages of Genuki now have extracts from the 1833 ed., full or partial.

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Genealogy

• Bartrum, Peter. Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1400. 8 Vols. Cardiff, 1974, microfiche ed 1980
• Bartrum, Peter. Welsh Genealogies AD 1400-1500. 18 Vols, Aberystwyth, 1983
• Davies, Susan J.  Reading Old Documents: Strategies for Success.   Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry. Edited by John & Sheila Rowlands. FFHS, 1999
• Griffith, John Edwards.  Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families with their collateral branches in Denbighshire, Merionethshire and other parts.  Horncastle, 1914. Republished Wrexham, 2009.
• Heraldic Visitations of Wales and part of the Marches between the years 1586 and 1613 by Lewys Dwnn, Deputy Herald at Arms, transcribed by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, Llandovery, 1856. 2 Vols. Republished Wrexham, 2005.
• Nicholas, Thomas. Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales. London, 1872.
• Rowlands, J & S, (Eds.). Welsh Family History: A guide to research, 2nd edition, The Federation of Family History Societies and the authors, 1998
  •  The chapter titles are: Introduction, Archive Repositories in Wales, Family History Societies of Wales, Parish Registers and, Bishop's Transcripts, Civil Registration and the Census, Nonconformity, The Surnames of Wales, Place Names, Some Basic Welsh for Family Historians, The IGI for Wales, Estate Records, Maritime Records, Wills and Other Records of Inheritance, Education Records, Parochial Records, The Welsh at Law, The Records of the Courts of Great Sessions for Wales, Printed and Manuscript Pedigrees, Migration: Concepts, Patterns and Processes, Emigration, The Freeholders, Miscellaneous Sources, Select Bibliography.
• Rowlands, J & S, (Eds.). Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry. FFHS/UWA, 1999. 'Success in researching our Welsh ancestry requires some understanding of the social, cultural , religious and economic background  to the communities in which our ancestors lived, this book aims to broaden that understanding,  especially for the period before 1800......'
• Rowlands, J & S. The Surnames of Wales, for family historians and others. FFHS, 1996.
  • "The dominance of a small number of common surnames in Wales can be a major stumbling block for those researching their Welsh ancestry or those wishing to distinguish between individuals within a given community as part of a local history study. This book attempts to dispel the myths that surround the subject of surnames in Wales - such as the widely-held belief (outside Wales) that nearly everyone is called Jones - by describing the development of surnames within Wales down to modern times. Equal emphasis has been given within the text to common names found throughout Wales and to rarer ones found only in specific localities. [The survey given] of surnames in Wales in the period 1813-1837 can be used to suggest a place of origin within Wales for groups of people (a minimum of two) about whom all that is known is that 'they came from Wales'. For many people whose ancestors left Wales for other parts of Britain or the New World this predictive method could offer the first real opportunity for making oups of people (a minimum of two) about whom all that is known is that 'they came from Wales'. For many people whose ancestors left Wales for other parts of Britain or the New World this predictive method could offer the first real opportunity for making progress in tracing those elusive (and often seemingly anonymous) Welsh ancestors by narrowing down the potential search area."
• Siddons, Michael Powell.  Using Peter Bartrum's 'Welsh Genealogies'.   Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry. Edited by John & Sheila Rowlands. FFHS, 1999
• Thomas, Graham C G.  Ordinary People in the Records of the Great Estates. Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry. Edited by John & Sheila Rowlands. FFHS, 1999
• Williams, John Dilwyn. The Lloyds of Ty Newydd: A Study of a North Wales family. Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry. Edited by John & Sheila Rowlands. FFHS, 1999. A case study that aims to show the extensive range of resources that can be utililsed to  'put some flesh on the bare bones of a family tree'.
• Yorke, Philip. Royal Tribes of Wales.1st ed. 1799 & 2nd ed. 1887.

History

• A Nation under Siege. The Civil War in Wales.1642-48 CADW 1981
• Arnold, C J & J L Davies.     Roman and Early Medieval Wales.  Sutton, 2000
• Bibliography of the History of Wales. Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. 1962
• Cantrell, J & A Rylance.   Sarn Helen: Walking a Roman Road through Wales.   Milnthorpe, 1992
• Cook, Kay & Neil Evans.   'The Women's Suffrage Movement in Wales, 1890-1918', in John, Angela [ed]. Our Mothers' Land : Chapters in Welsh Women's History, 1800-1939. UWP, 1991
• #Davies, John. History of Wales . London, 1993
• #Davies, John. The Making of Wales. CADW, 1996  
• #Davies, R R. The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dwr  [1400-1409]. Oxford, 1995.
• Davies, R R. Conquest, Coexistence, and Change; Wales 1063-1415. 1987 reprinted as The Age of Conquest 1991
• Davies, Wendy. Wales in the Early Middle Ages. 1982
• Davies, Wendy    Patterns of Power in Early Wales.   Oxford, 1990
• Davison, Lesley.    'Spinsters were Doing it for Themselves: Independence and the Single Woman in Early Eighteenth Century Rural Wales'  in Roberts, Michael & Simone Clarke. Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales. Cardiff, 2000
• Dodd, A H. A Short History of Wales. Batsford, 1977
• Dodd, A H. Studies in Stuart Wales. UWP, 2nd ed, 1971
• #Dodd, A H . Life in Wales. Batsford, 1972
• Edwards, Goronwy. Edward Ist's castle building in Wales. Sir John Rhys memorial Lecture, 1944.
• Edwards, I. A Catalogue of Star Chamber Proceedings Relating to Wales. Cardiff, 1929
• Edwards, N and A Lane (eds).   Early Medieval Settlements in Wales AD 400-1100.  Cardiff, 1988
• Edwards, Owen Morgan (Sir). A Short History of Wales.  Downloadable free from the Project Gutenberg site -  the 1922 T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. edition by David Price
• Evans, D Gareth.     A history of Wales 1815-1906        UWP 1989/1993  320p       Here is a contents listing and introduction
• #Evans, Gwynfor . Land of my Fathers; 2000 years of Welsh history. Y Lolfa, paperback 1992.
• Evans, H T. Wales and the Wars of the Roses. 1915
• Fraser, Maxwell. Wales, Volume I; the Background. 1952 & Wales, Volume II; the Country. 1952
• Gibson, Sir John.   The Emancipation of Women (ed W.Gareth Evans)  Gomer, 1992
• Griffiths, Ralph [ed]. The Boroughs of Mediaeval Wales. UWP, 1978
• Griffiths. Ralph. Conquerors and Conquered in Medieval Wales.  Cardiff, 1994
• Griffiths, R A. The Principality of Wales in the Later Middle Ages. Cardiff, 1972
• Griffiths, W A. Tales from Welsh History and Romance. 1915.
• Grimes, W F. The prehistory of Wales. 1951.
• Herbert, Trevor & Jones, Gareth [ed]. The remaking of Wales in the eighteenth century. UWP, 1988
• Herbert, Trevor & Jones, Gareth [eds]. Wales 1880-1914. UWP, 1988
• Herbert, Trevor & Jones, Gareth [eds]. Tudor Wales. 1988
• Howell, David. Patriarchs and Parasites. 1986
• Jack, O Ian.     Mediaeval Wales   1972
• Jeffreys Jones, T I. Exchequer Proceedings Concerning Wales in Tempore James I. Cardiff, 1955
• Jenkins, Dafydd & Owen, Morfydd[ eds] . The Welsh Law of Women. UWP, 1980.
• Jenkins, Dafydd (ed). Hywel Dda; The Law. Gomer, Llandysul (Gomer Catalogue 2002, 0 86383 277 6)
• Jenkins, Geraint. The Foundations of Modern Wales : 1642-1780. OUP, 1987
• Jenkins, Philip. Modern Wales, 1536-1990. London, 1992.
• Jenkins, R T.   Hanes Cymru yn y Ddeunawfed Ganrif. (The History of Wales in the Eighteenth Century)
• John, Angela [ed]. Our Mothers' Land : Chapters in Welsh Women's History, 1800-1939. UWP, 1991
• Jones, D J. Footprints in the Stone.   2008.  "It traces the Welsh Britons from Prehistoric, through all the ages, to the Roman invasions and, the so called Dark Ages, Arthurian Legend and, the uprising of Owain Glyndwr."
• Jones, David Lewis.   The Glorious Revolution in Wales. National Library of Wales journal, 1989, Summer. Volume XXVI/1. Extracted by Bill Griffith-Jones
• Jones, E G. Exchequer Proceedings (Equity) Concerning Wales. Henry VIII - Elizabeth. Cardiff, 1939
• Jones, Gareth Elwyn. Tudor Wales. Gomer, Llandysul. (0 86383 218 0). In Gomer's 2002 Catalogue.
  • Intro; "Time Line : Historical Evidence : A Tudor Conqueror : The Countryside : Towns and Trade : Some Recreations : Illness and Poverty : Unifying Wales and England : Tudor Wales. Gomer, Llandysul. (0 86383 218 0). In Gomer's 2002 Catalogue. Intro; "Time Line : Historical Evidence : A Tudor Conqueror : The Countryside : Towns and Trade : Some Recreations : Illness and Poverty : Unifying Wales and England : How Tudor Wales was Governed  : Religion."
• Jones, Gareth Elwyn. Modern Wales. 2nd ed 1994
• Jones, Ieuan Gwynedd. Mid-Victorian Wales; The Observers and the Observed. 1992
• Jones, J Graham. A Pocket Guide to the History of Wales. 1990
• Jones, J Gwynfor. Wales and the Tudor state. 1989
• Jones, Nerys Ann & Huw Pryce.   Yr Arglwydd Rhys.  Cardiff, 1996
• Jones Pierce, T. Medieval Welsh History. Selected essays. UWP, 1972.
• Jones, Thomas.   Brut y Tywysogion or the Chronicle of the Princes: Red Book of Hergest Version.   Cardiff 1955
• Lewis, E A. An Inventory of the Early Chancery Proceedings Concerning Wales. Cardiff, 1937
• Lewis, E A and J Conway Davies. Records of the Court of Augmentations relating to Wales and Monmouthshire. Cardiff, 1954.
• Lewis, E A. 'A contribution to the Commercial history of Medieval Wales.' Y Cymmrodor, vol. 24, 1913
• Lewis, Eiluned & Peter. The Land of Wales. 1949
• Lloyd, J E. A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest. 2 Vols, Longman Green, 1911 and later eds. This is considered a standard work on the subject.
• Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen.  'From Temperance to Suffrage',   in John, Angela [ed]. Our Mothers' Land : Chapters in Welsh Women's History, 1800-1939. UWP, 1991
• Lofmarch, Carl. A History of the Red Dragon. 1995
• Lynch, F & C Burgess. Prehistoric Man in Wales and the West. Adams & Dart, 1972.  21 essays in honour of Lily Chitty.
• Lynch, Frances, Stephen Aldhouse-Green & Jeffrey L Davies.   Prehistoric Wales.    Sutton, 2000
• Maund, Kari.       The Welsh Kings.    Stroud, 2000
• May, John. A Chronicle of Welsh Events. 1994  & Reference Wales. 1994
• Moore, Donald [ed]. Wales in the eighteenth century. Swansea, 1976
• #Morgan, Kenneth O. Rebirth of a Nation: Wales 1880-1980. UWP, 1981.
• Morgan, Prys. Background to Wales. Llandybie, 1968
• Morgan, Prys. Illustrated History of Wales, prehistoric period to the present day. 2001.
• #Morgan, Prys & Thomas, David. Wales : the Shaping of a Nation. Newton Abbot, 1984.
• #Morris, Jan & Wakefield, Paul.   WALES :The First Place. ISBN 0-948149-61-2.
• Nash-Williams, V E. The Roman Frontier in Wales. Cardiff, UWP, 1954. 161p. Deals with the evidence relating to the Roman military conquest, organisation and conquest of Wales.
• Nelson, Lynn H. The Normans in South Wales, 1070-1171. Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1966
• Nevins, J Birbeck & Edward Howell. Picture of Wales during the Tudor period. 1893
• Owen, G Dyfnallt. Elizabethan Wales. 1962 . Also 1986, as Elizabethan Wales: The Social Scene. UWP
• Parry, G. A Guide to the Records of the Great Sessions in Wales. Aberystwyth, 1995
• Phillips, D Rhys. A Select Biography of Owen Glyndwr. Welsh Bib. Soc. 1915.
• Pierce, T J. Medieval Welsh Society. - Selected Essays. Caerdydd, 1972
• Rednap, M. Viking in Wales: An Archaelogical Quest. Cardiff, NMGW, 2000.
• Rees, D Morgan. Industrial Archaelogy of Wales. 1975
• Rees, W. The Black Death in Wales. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 1920
• Rees, William. Industry before the Industrial Revolution. 2 vols UWP 1968
• Rhys and Jones. The Welsh People.
• Richards, ?. Cymru'r Oesau Canol. (Wales of the Middle Ages).Wrecsam, 1933
• Roberts, G. Aspects of Welsh History. Caerdydd, 1969.
• Roberts, Michael & Simone Clarke.    Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales. Cardiff, 2000
• Roderick, A J [ed]. Wales Through the Ages. 2nd ed, 1965
• Siddons, M P. The development of Welsh Heraldry. NLW, 3 vols
• Smith, D.(ed).   A People & A Proleteriat. Essays in the History of Wales 1780-1880.   1980
• Smith, Dai. Wales; A Question of History. 1999
• Taylor, A J.   The King's Works in Wales, 1277-1330.   London, 1974
• The Cambrian Journal   Volume 1 , 1854. Published under the auspices of the Cambrian Institute. London, Longmans & Co; Tenby, R Mason.
• Thomas, Ben Bowen. Braslun o Hanes Economaidd Cymru. (Study in the Economic History of Wales). Caerdydd, 1941
• Thomas, W S K. Stuart Wales. Gomer, Llandysul. (0 86383 439 6).
  • Gomer 2002 catalogue;-"This meticulously researched book shows how the Stuart Age was in every sense a watershed in Welsh history. During this period Wales reaped the benefits of the union legislation of 1536/43, while at the same time the seeds were being sown for those dramatic changes in the religion associated with the Methodist Revival, and that explosion in industrial activity known as the Industrial Revolution."
• Thomson, Gladys Scott . Roads in England and Wales in 1603. English History Review, 1918.
• Todd, A H. Welsh Life and Customs from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day.Batsford Ltd, 1979.  This is a comprehensive general history , a readable, quickly-read book which gives the background history of Wales and her people.
• Tucker, N. North Wales in the Civil War. Bridge Books, 1992
• Turvey, Roger. The Lord Rhys; Prince of Deheubarth. Gomer, Llandysul. (1 85902 430 0). Gomer 2002 Catalogue;- "Rhys ap Gruffydd was a native ruler whose long and varied career touched upon twelfth-century Welsh and Marcher society at many points............"
• Turvey, Roger. The Welsh Princes, The Native Rulers of Wales 1063-1283. Longman, 2002.
• Twigg, Aeres. Llywelyn the Last Prince. Gomer online catalogue, 2003. The last independent Prince of Wales, and his tragic story
• Twigg, Aeres. Owain Glyndwr. Gomer online catalogue, 2003. Discovering Wales. "Prince of Wales, the people's champion, or 'barefoot rascal' and failed revolutionary?"
• Wade-Evans, A W. The Emergence of England & Wales - a study of the end of Roman rule in Britain and its sequel. 1959.
• Walker, David. Medieval Wales. Cambridge, 1990.
• Warrington. History of Wales. 1786
• Watt, H. Welsh Manors and their Records. NLW, 2000
• Wheeler, R E M. Prehistoric and Roman Wales. Clarendon Press, 1925.
• White, Eryn M.   'Women, Religion and Education in Eighteenth Century Wales',  in  Roberts, Michael & Simone Clarke.   Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales. Cardiff, 2000
• Williams, A H. An Introduction to the History of Wales. Prehistoric times to 1063 ,and 1063 to 1284.
• Williams, David. A History of Modern Wales. 1950. Revised by I G Jones in 1977.
• #Williams, Gwyn A. When was Wales ? Harmondsworth Penguin, 1985.
• Williams, Gwyn A. The Welsh in their History. 1982
• Williams, John. Was Wales Industrialised ? Gomer, 1995. (1 85902 139 5). Gomer 2002 Catalogue;- " The essays in this book explore various aspects of the social and economic experience of Wales since the mid to late nineteenth century.........."
• Williams, J. Digest of Welsh Historical Statistics Vols 1&2. Welsh Office, 1985
• Woodward, B B. The History of Wales from the Earliest Times to its Final Incorporation with The Kingdom of England. Virtue & Co, London, 1853. 2 vols.
• Yorke, Philip. Royal Tribes of Wales. 1799/1887

Land and Property

• Bowen, I. The Great Enclosure of the Common Fields in Wales. 1914
• Chapman, J. A Guide to Parliamentary Enclosures in Wales. Cardiff, 1992
• Davies, John. The End of the Great Estates and the Rise of Freehold Farming in Wales.Welsh History Review, 7 [1954]
• Davies, Robert. Estate Maps of Wales 1600-1836. Aberystwyth, 1982
• Edwards, Nancy [ed]. Landscape and Settlement in Medieval Wales. Oxford, 1997.
• Evidence, Report and Appendices of the Royal Commission on Land in Wales and Monmouthshire. 1894/5/6
• Guide to the Department of Manuscripts and Records. The National Library of Wales. Aberystwyth, 1994.
  This lists the various estate papers, deeds and documents deposited there.
• Hughes, T J . Landlordism in Wales. 1887
• James, Brian Ll. The Great Landowners of Wales in 1873. National Library of Wales journal. 1966, Summer Volume XIV/3
• James, Evan L.  'The Freeholders'   in John Rowlands' Welsh Family History: a Guide to Research, 1993
• Lloyd, Thomas.  The Lost Houses of Wales , this is a survey, complete  with photographs of country houses in Wales demolished since c.1900
• Palmer, A N. A History of Ancient Tenures of Land in the Marches of North Wales. 1885
• Report of Royal Commission on Land in Wales and Monmouthshire [C8221]. 1896
• Reports of the Welsh Agriculture Land Sub-Commission; Mid Wales Investigation Report. House of Commons 1955/6
• Smith, Peter. Houses of the Welsh Countryside. 1975/1988 (HMSO) 604pp. numerous plates, figs. and maps.
• Stapledon, R G. (ed.): A survey of the agricultural and waste lands of Wales. London 1936.
• Thomas, D Lleufer. The Welsh Land Commission. A Digest of its Reports. Whitaker, 1896
• Vincent, J E. Tenancy in Wales. Caernarfon, 1889.
• Watt, Helen . Welsh manors and their records (Aberystwyth, 2000)
• Wiliam, Eurwyn. The Historic Farm Buildings of Wales. 1986

Language and Languages

• Aitchison, J W & Harold Carter.   Spreading the Word: the Welsh Language 2001.      Talybont, 2004
• Davies, Janet. The Welsh Language. Cardiff, 1993
• Davies, Russell.   'Language and Community in south-west Wales c 1800-1914'  in Geraint H Jenkins    Language and Community in the Nineteenth Century, 1998
• Evans, D Simon. A Grammar of Middle Welsh.
• Jenkins, H. Geraint. Language and Community in the nineteenth century. Cardiff, 1998
• Jenkins, H Geraint. The Welsh Language before the Industrial Revolution. Cardiff, 1997
• Jenkins, Geraint H and Mari A Williams (eds). Let's do our best for the ancient tongue; the Welsh Language in the twentieth century. (ISBN 0-7083-1658-1) "This is the sixth volume in a groundbreaking series of studies on the social history of the Welsh language...."
• Jones, Dot. Statistical Evidence relating to the Welsh Language 1801-1911. Cardiff, 1998
• Jones, Philip Henry & Eiluned Rees. A Nation and its Books. A history of the book in Wales. 1998
• Morgan, Gerald. The Dragon's Tongue - The Fortunes of the Welsh Language. 1996
• Morris-Jones, J. A Welsh Grammar Phonology & Accidence. Oxford UP, 1970
• Owen, William. A Grammar of the Welsh Language. 1803
• Parry-Williams, T H. The English Element in Welsh. 1923
• Parry-Jones, D. Some Thoughts and Notes on the English of South Wales. National Library of Wales journal. 1974, Winter. Volume XVIII/4
• Pryce, W T R. Wales as a Culture Region. Trans Hon Soc Cymm. 1968
• Pryce, W T R. Welsh and English in Wales, 1750-1971; a spatial analysis based on the Linguistic Affiliation of Parochial communities. Bull. Bd. Celtic Studies, xxviii Nov 1978
• Publishing in the Welsh Language. HMSO 1978
• Pugh, William Owen. Dictionary of the Welsh Language. Denbigh, 1891
• Report of the Committee on Welsh Language Publishing. House of Commons 1951/2
• Richards, William. A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English.  Downloadable free from the Project Gutenberg site - transcribed from the 1861 Hughes and Son edition by David Price
• Southall,  John E.   Wales and her Language.   1892
• Stephens, Meic. The Welsh Language Today. 1973
• Strachan, J. An Introduction to Early Welsh. Manceinion, 1909.
• The Council for Wales and Monmouthshire; report on the Welsh Language today. House of Commons 1963/4
• The Legal Status of the Welsh Language; Report of the Committee. House of Commons 1964/5
• Thomas, Alun R. The Linguistic Geography of Wales. Cardiff, 1973
• Thomas, J Gareth. The Geographical Distribution of the Welsh Language. Geog Jnl 122, 1956
• Walters, John. English and Welsh Dictionary (plus a dissertation on the Welsh language). Dolgellau, 1815
• Williams, D Trevor. A Linguistic Map of Wales. Geog Jnl 89, 1937
• Williams, Glyn. (ed) Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales. 1978
• Williams, Stephen. Elfennau Gramadeg Cymraeg.

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Manors

• Watt, Helen.  Welsh Manors and Their Records   "This important reference and historical work has grown out of the Welsh Manorial Records Database Project and is published by the National Library of Wales, 2000

Maps

• Booth, John. Antiquarian Maps of Wales. 2nd ed. Westbury, 1978
• Rees, Wm. An Historical Atlas of Wales from Early to Modern Times. Faber, 1959.
• Wheatley, Sandra. Introduction to Maps of Wales. Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry. Edited by John & Sheila Rowlands. FFHS, 1999

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Merchant Marine

• Breverton, Terry. The Book of Welsh Pirates and Buccaneers. 2003.
• Campbell-Jones, Susan. Welsh Sail.Gomer 1976. Here is an index by Mary Jane Stephenson
• Eames, Aled Machlud Hwyliau'r Cymry/The Twilight of Welsh Sail.1984 (Univ. Wales Press), bilingual. card covers. 129pp. + biblio. 5 b/w illus. "primarily intended for schools but should also be of interest to adults, especially perhaps those who are learning the Welsh language and incidentally wish to know a little more about the history of Wales". [Preface]
• Eames, Aled Shrounded Quays (The Lost Ports of Wales) English trans. 1991 of book 1st pub. in Welsh1989 (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch). Welsh Heritage Series No. 2.
  • Includes biblio. illus. b/w photos + a few line drawings. covers Menai Straits, the S. Wales coal Shrounded Quays (The Lost Ports of Wales) English trans. 1991 of book 1st pub. in Welsh1989 (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch). Welsh Heritage Series No. 2. 95pp. includes biblio. illus. b/w photos + a few line drawings. covers Menai Straits, the S. Wales coal ports, Cardigan Bay, shipping around the Lleyn and the ships of the Chester river. the author pleads for the retention of the character and traditions of historic ports, as opposed to their development as marinas or for housing and shows how this might be achieved.
• Farr, Grahame. The Statutory Ship Registers of the Welsh Ports. Cymru a'r Mor/ Maritime Wales No 1, 1976
• Hague, D B. Lighthouses of Wales: Their Architecture and Archaeology. Aberystwyth, RCAHMW, 1994
• Heaton , P.M. Welsh Shipping - Forgotten Fleets 1989. Biographical details restricted mainly to owners & managers, and details of ships owned. Here is an index by David Webb
• Hen Longau a Llongwyr Cymru. Gwasg Prif Cymru. 1949.
• Hughes, Henry (Col). Sailing Ships & Sailors of Wales. 1960
• Jenkins, J. Geraint . The Inshore Fisherman of Wales.1st ed. 1991 (Univ. Wales Press). 154pp. + notes and index. 50pls., 1 map, figs.
• Jenkins, J Geraint.   Traddodiad y Mor     Llanrwst, 2004
• Leng, Philip. The Welsh Dockers.  1981
• Lewis, E A. The Welsh Port Books, 1550-1603. London, 1927.
• Parry, Glyn. Autobiography of a Smuggler. National Library of Wales journal, vol XXIV/1, Summer 1986. A brief resumee of the life of William Owen, born in Nevern, Pembrokeshire in 1717, hanged at Carmarthen in 1747. 
• The Trinity House Petitions - Index published by the SOG.  Gives information on all petitions related to merchant seamen held by the SOG. Useful for those with seagoing ancestors who may have applied for assistance from Trinity House
• Thornley, F C.  Steamers of North Wales, Past & Present. 1962. 78pp
• Watts, Chris & Michael.  My Ancestor was a Merchant Seaman. Details of sources for research on seamen.

Military History

• A Short History of the Royal Regiment of Wales [24th - 41st Foot]. Regimental Museum.
• Conway, Alan. Welsh Soldiers in the Zulu War. National Library of Wales journal Vol XI/1 Summer 1959.
• Davies, Reginald[Dr]. Welshmen at the Battle of Trafalgar Was your ancestor a one legged survivor of the Battle ?. Part I. Dyfed FHS journal, Vol 5/5 Dec 1995. Concentrates on  the story of one man, James Davis of Pembroke.
• Davies, Reginald[Dr]. Welshmen at the Battle of Trafalgar [21 Oct 1805]. Part II. Dyfed FHS journal, Vol 5/6 April 1996. The author refers to the index he has produced of all Welshman at the battle.
• Dudley Ward, G H. History of the Welsh Guards. London Stamp Exchange Ltd, 1988, facs. ed.
• Evans, H. T. Wales and the Wars of the Roses. 1998 ed. of book published 1915 (Alan Sutton) xiv + 178 p inc. notes, list of sources and index. 2 maps and family trees.
• Owen, Bryn.  History of the Welsh Militia and Volunteer Forces, 1757-1908, various volumes, Wrexham, 1994-2000
• Owen, Bryn. The Welch Regiment (41st & 69th Foot) 1881 -1969 . Welch Regimental Museum, Cardiff Castle
• Phillips, J R. Memoirs of the Civil War in Wales and the Marches. London, 1874
• Retallack, John . The Welsh Guards Foreword by H R H The Prince of Wales. Published (1981) by Frederick Warne (Publishers) Ltd. London. There is an index by Allen Powell.
• Tamblin, Stuart. Courts Martials 1914 - 1921 (Family History Indexes)
• Tamblin, Stuart.   Soldiers executed 1914 - 1920 ( "   "   "  " )
• Welshmen in the East India Company Army. Published by the London branch of Welsh Family History Societies
• Westlake, Ray.   A History of the 38th Welsh Division [WWI]
• Westlake, Ray. Welsh Army Corps, 1914-1919. Western Mail, 1921. Reprint
• Williams, W. Alister.  Heart of a Dragon, the VCs of Wales and the Welsh Regiments, 1854-1902 and 1914-82.  Wrexham, 2007 and 2008.
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Names, Geographical

• Charles, B G. Non-Celtic Place Names in Wales. University College, London, 1938.
• Davies, Elwyn [ed]. A Gazetteer of Welsh Place Names. Cardiff, 1967
• Lias, Anthony. A Guide to Welsh Place names. Welsh Heritage Series No 3. Llanrwst, 1994
• Lloyd, Annie. Welsh Place and Farm Names,1998
• Morgan, Thomas (Dowlais). Handbook of the origin of place-names in Wales and Monmouthshire. 1887
• Owen, Hywel Wyn. The place-names of Wales, Cardiff, University of Wales Press : Western Mail (1998) 103 p. University of Wales: Board of Celtic Studies and Davies, E. Rhestr o enwau Ileoedd [A Gazetteer of Welsh Place Names], Cardiff, Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru 1958 & 1989

Names, Personal

• Bartrum, P C.   Personal Names in Wales in the Fifteenth Century. NLW journal, 1965/6
• Celtic Educational Ltd.  Welsh First Names for Children ; their meanings explained . 1978
• Lloyd, Annie. Welsh Surnames and Given Names, 1996
• Morgan, G. Welsh Names in Welsh Wills. Journal of the Society of Archivists, vol XXV. 1995, pp 178-185
• Morgan, T J/Morgan, Prys. Welsh Surnames. UWP, 1985.
  • From the dust jacket;- "Welsh Surnames is the first full-scale study of Welsh surnames and is both a classification and a dictionary. Based on Welsh, Latin and English texts, on parish registers and local histories, it traces the growth of a Welsh surnaming pattern in Wales and the Border at the end of the Middle Ages. This historical picture is completed by evidence taken from modern sources such as electoral registers from Wales and western England, surnames from Welsh and London newspapers, and telephone directories.The book opens with a classification of the various kinds of Welsh surnames besides the innumerable examples of the well-known Welsh patronymic surname; surnames from hypocoristic forms, from anglicisations and approximations of Welsh names, from the forenames of women, from place-names, and many others. This is followed by a dictionary of Welsh surnames which also gives attention to variations and corruptions of the original names.Welsh Surnames is aimed both at the specialist and the general reader, and will be an invaluable tool not only for the historian or the genealogist but also the geographer and sociologist."
• Rowlands, John. The Homes of Surnames in Wales. Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry. Edited by John & Sheila Rowlands. FFHS, 1999
• Rowlands, John & Sheila. The Surnames of Wales. FFHS, 1996
• Rowlands, Sheila.  Sources for Surname Studies.   Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry. Edited by John & Sheila Rowlands. FFHS, 1999

Newspapers 

• Jones, Aled.  Sir John Gibson and the Cambrian News.     Ceredigion, 1994
• B. Jones. Report of the NEWSPLAN project in Wales, London, The British Library, 1994
  • "NEWSPLAN is a comprehensive programme for the identification, microfilming and preservation of the local newspapers of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland." The book contains a very detailed listing of over a thousand (Welsh and English language) newspapers published in Wales during the period 1804-1992, indicating which issues have been preserved (either in their original form or microfilmed) in which libraries and archives. Amongst several indexes there is a very useful one "by place of publication and main areas of distribution". Thus though intended for librarians, the book is also of use to genealogists and others who wish to use newspapers as sources of information related to Welsh 19th and 20th century history.
• Trollope, Glynden. (ed) The Cambrian, And General Weekly Advertiser For the Principality of Wales 1804 - 1930.   Published 2003 . Indexed by Gareth Hicks

Occupations

• Ashby, A. W. and Evans, I. L. The Agriculture of Wales and Monmouthshire. 1944 (UWP Cardiff) 300pp. inc. index. figs. and tables. a huge amount of statistical information.
• Bonser, K J. The Drovers: Who they were and How they went: an Epic of the English Countryside. Readers Union, 1972. Here is a contents/photographs listing by Gareth Hicks- there are some quotations. The book has some coverage of Welsh drovers.
• Colyer, Richard. The Welsh Cattle Drovers (1976). Here is a contents listing/introduction and an index by Catherine Davies-Shiel. (Reissued in 2002 by Landmark Publishing Co, with  revision of some chapters)
• Colyer, R. J. Moore. Further References to the Welsh Cattle Trade. National Library of Wales journal. Volume XXV/3 Summer, 1988. Extract of this article by Bill Griffith-Jones 2002
• Colyer, Richard. Welsh Cattle Drovers in the Nineteenth Century - 1   National Library of Wales journal. 1972, Winter Volume XVII/4      
• Colyer, Richard. Welsh Cattle Drovers in the Nineteenth Century - 2   National Library of Wales journal. 1974, Summer. Volume XVIII/3
• Colyer, Richard. Welsh Cattle Drovers in the Nineteenth Century - 3 National Library of Wales journal. 1975, Summer. Volume XIX/1
• Craig, Robert. R. J. NEVILL AND THE EARLY WELSH COAL TRADE---A COMMENT  National Library of Wales journal. Volume X/4 Winter 1958
• Crankshaw, W P. Report on a Survey of the Welsh Textile Industry. 1927
• Davies, Alun Eirug. Paper-Mills and Paper-Makers in Wales 1700-1900. , National Library of Wales journal. 1967, Summer Volume XV/1
• Davies, Henry. Coal Mining, A Reader for Primary Schools and Evening Continuation Classes ; The Welsh Educational Publishing Co, Merthyr Tydfil, 1904. Here is a substantial extraction
• Davies, J. The End of the Great Estates and the Rise of Freehold Farming in Wales. The Welsh History Review, vol 7, no 2, 1974, pp 208-11.
• Davies, Joseph (ed)   The South Wales coal annual for 1908. The complete book is accessible on the Internet Archive site - click on Texts and search on Cardiff 
• Davies, Walter (Rev). A General View of Agriculture and Economy of North /South Wales. Two separate books published in 1810 and 1815.
• Evans, Elwyn. Machynlleth Toll Books. National Library of Wales journal Vol VI/1, Summer 1949.
  • Here is a full extract of the background information and an index of names appearing in the original toll books representing buyers and sellers at Machynlleth Fair in May and June 1632, plus National Library of Wales journal Vol VI/1, Summer 1949. Here is a full extract of the background information and an index of names appearing in the original toll books representing buyers and sellers at Machynlleth Fair in May and June 1632, plus  a map showing which of over 50 parishes they came from.
• Evans, R Meurig. Plant yn y Diwydiant Haearn, 1840-42.  (Children in the Iron Industry). National Museum of Wales, 1973
• Gibson, J. Agriculture in Wales. London, 1879.
• Godwin, Fay/Toulson, Shirley. The Drovers' Roads of Wales. Wildwood House, London, 1977. Here is a list of contents and illustrations together with the introduction on the back cover
• #Howell, David. Land and People in C19 Wales. London, 1977.
• Howell, David. The Impact of Railways on Agricultural Development in Nineteenth Century Wales. Welsh History Review, Vol 7/1, Jun 1974
• Howell, D W. The Agricultural Labourer in C19th Wales. The Welsh History Review, vol 6, no 3, 1973
• Howells, J. The land question from a tenant farmer's point of view. Red Dragon, II, 1882
• Howells, R. Farming in Wales, London, 1967.
• Hughes, P G.  Wales and the Drovers , the historical background of an epoch, 1943. Here is an index by Gareth Hicks
• Jenkins, D. The Agricultural Community in South-West Wales at the turn of the C20th. (Rhydlewis). UWP, 1971
• Jenkins, J. Geraint.   Agricultural Transport in Wales. 1962 (Nat. Mus. Wales) 107pp. inc. preface, foreword, intro. and catalogue. 30 b/w pls. chapters on 'Human Porterage and Sledges', 'Two-wheeled Carts', 'Four-wheeled Wagons', 'Pack and Draught Animals' and 'The Wheelwright's Craft'
• Jenkins, J Geraint. The Welsh Woollen Industry. Nat Mus Wales/Welsh Folk Museum., 1969. 410pp, 74 plates and 27 figs
• Jones, Aled.     Press, Politics and Society: a History of Journalism in Wales.    Cardiff, 1993
• Jones, Ifano. Printing and Printers in Wales and Monmouthshire . William Lewis, 1925
• Jones, Mary Eirwen. Welsh Crafts; an account of the historic Welsh crafts and as they exist today. Batsford, London 1978. Here is a list of contents and illustrations together with part of the introduction on the dust jacket.
• Lewis, W J. Lead Mining in Wales, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1967 - Although written over thirty years ago, and long out of print, it is still the only book covering all the Welsh mining fields. Contains some useful references and allows comparisons with other mining activity in Wales.
• Lewis W J. A Welsh Salt Making Venture of the Sixteenth Century. NLW journal Vol VIII/4 Winter 1954.
• Lloyd, John. The Early History of the Old South Wales Iron Works (1760 - 1840). Bedford Press, 1906
• Matheson, C.   Wales and the Sea Fisheries. National Museum of Wales/University of Wales, 1929
• Mendenhall, C. The Shrewsbury Drapers and the Welsh wool trade in the XVI and XVII centuries. Oxford, 1953
• Parry, Owen. Financing of the Welsh Cattle Trade in the Eighteenth Century. Bd of Celtic Studies Bul., 1936
• Peate, Iorwerth C. Clock and Watch Makers in Wales. 1945 (Nat. Mus. Wales)
  • Contains 13pp. describing the development of clocks and watches (inc. drawings), 10pp. describing clock-making and watch-making in Wales, a list of clock and watch makers in Wales in the 17th, 18th, and 19th cents., their addresses and what they made, where known, and a catalogue of sundials, clocks and watches by Welsh makers in the Nat. Mus.Wales.
• Pretty, David.  The Rural Revolt that Failed: Farm Workers' Trade Unions in Wales, 1889-1950.   Cardiff, 1989
• Rees, D Morgan. The Metalliferous Mines of Wales. 1972.
• Report of the Royal Commission on the employment of children, young persons, and women in agriculture (1867), (London, 1870).
• Report of the Royal Commission on Labour: The agricultural Labourer, vol. II, Wales (London, 1893)
• Report of the Committee on the Technical Problems of  Welsh Agriculture. HMSO 1958
• Report of a working party on a Welsh Agricultural College. HMSO 1960
• Report on the Welsh Slate Industry. HMSO 1947
• Richards, A J. Slate Quarrying in Wales. Llanrwst, 1995
• Riden, Philip. A Gazetteer of Charcoal-fired Blast Furnaces in Great Britain, 2nd. edn., 1993
• Roberts, R O. Copper and Economic Growth in Great Britain, 1729-1784. National Library of Wales journal. 1957, Summer Volume X/1.
• Rowlands, John.  Great Endeavours for Little Reward: Lead Miners in Wales. Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry. Edited by John & Sheila Rowlands. FFHS, 1999
• Skeel, Caroline (Prof.) The Cattle Trade between England and Wales in the C15 to C18. Trans. Royal Historical Society, 1926.
• Skeel:, C. The Welsh woollen industry in the 16th and 17th centuries. Arch Camb., 1922
• Taith wledig y porthmyn [Drovers country tour].Welsh/English parallel text.Caerfyrddin : 1998. [Cattle trails Wales Cardiganshire Guidebooks.Drovers Wales Cardiganshire History.]
• Thomas, D. Agriculture in Wales during the Napoleonic Wars. UWP, 1963
• Thomas, Trevor M. The Mineral Wealth of Wales and its Exploitation. 1961
• Tucker, Gordon and Mary. The Old Slate Industry of Pembrokeshire and Other Parts of South Wales. National Library of Wales journal. 1983, Winter. Volume XXIII/2. Extract by Bill Griffith-Jones
• Welsh China. An Illustrated handbook. NWL, 1983
• Williams, L J. A Welsh Ironworks at the Close of the Seventeenth century. National Library of Wales journal. 1960, Summer Volume XI/3

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Periodicals

• Subject Index to Welsh Periodicals 1931-1955. Seven 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
• Guide to the Welsh Periodical Press, 1735-1900. National Library of Wales, 1987.
• Walters, Huw. Llyfryddiaeth Cylchgronau Cymreig [A Bibliography of Welsh Periodicals 1735 - 1850] NLW, 1993 .
  • 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. The Welsh-American entries, which include Y Cyfaill o'r Hen Wlad yn America ( Methodist monthly, 1838-1932); Y Cenhadwr Americanaidd (Congregational monthly, 1840-1904)); Y Seren Orllewinol (Baptist monthly, 1844-1869); Y Wawr (another Baptist monthly, 1871-1898), as well as the Welsh Mormon publications: Prophwyd y Jubili (1846-1849) and Udgorn Seion (1849-1862) provide a wealth of information on Welsh emigration to the United States. Here is an introduction to the book by the author
• Walters, Huw. Llyfryddiaeth Cylchgronau Cymreig [A Bibliography of Welsh Periodicals 1851-1900]. NLW, 2004.  ISBN 1862250405. Hardback,
  • A detailed bibliography of Welsh periodicals from 1851 to 1900 comprising information about almost 900 periodicals, together with a thorough survey of the Welsh periodical press from 1735 to 1900. Over 120 black-and-white illustrations. Here is a review  of the book by Ieuan Gwynedd Jones
• Wilkins, Charles (ed). The Red Dragon. The National Magazine for Wales. Known to have been published at least 1882-5.

Politics and Government

• Adamson, D L. Class, Idealogy & the Nation. A Theory of Welsh Nationalism. UWP, 1991
• Chappell, E L. The Government of Wales. 1943
• Daniel, J E. Welsh Nationalism; What it Stands for. 1937
• Davies, D C. The Present Condition of the Welsh Nation. Red Dragon, IV, 1883
• Davies, D J. The Economics of Welsh Self-Government. 1931
• Davies, D  Hywel. The Welsh Nationalist Party, 1925-45; a call to nationhood. 1983
• Dodd, A H. 'Tuning' the Welsh Bench, 1680. National Library of Wales Journal, Summer 1950, Vol VI/ 3.
• Dodridge, Sir John. An Historical Account of the Ancient and Modern State of the Principality of Wales, Duchy of Cornwall and Earldom of Chester. Second print, 1714.
• #Egan, David.  People, Protest and Politics Case studies in C19 Wales. Gomer 1987. In Gomer's 2002 Catalogue (0 86383 350 0)
• Evans, E W. Mabon. (William Abraham, 1842-1922): a study in Trade Union leadership. GPC, 1959.
• Francis, Hywel. Welsh Miners and the Spanish Civil War. Jnl of Contemp. History. v/3 1970
• Fullarton, A . Parliamentary Gazeteer of England and Wales, 1840-4
• Gowan, Ivor. Government in Wales in the Twentieth Century, in J A Andrews (ed) ' Welsh Studies in Public Law' 1970
• Hearder, H. and Loyn, H. R. (eds.) British Government and Administration. 1974 (Univ. Wales Press) chapters on Wales are:
  • Government and the Welsh Community: the North-East Borderland in the 15th Century [J. Gwynfor Jones]
  • Patronage, Politics, and the Principality of Wales, 1413-1461 [R. A. Griffiths]
  • Prophecy, Poetry, and Politics and Medieval and Tudor Wales [Glanmor Williams]
  • The "Coercion" of Wales Act", 1904 [G. O. Pierce]
• James, Arnold J.et al. Wales in Westminster. Gwasg Gomer 1981. Includes details of all contested election results from 1800 to 1979 and short biographies of all Welsh MPs elected in 1832, 1892, 1923, 1945 and 1979
• James, Arnold & John E Thomas.   Union to Reform: a History of the Parliamentary Representation of Wales, 1536-1832.  Llandysul, 1986
• Jenkins, Dafydd and Morfydd E Owen (eds). The Welsh Law of Women. 1980
• Jenkins, Geraint H. and Beverley Smith,  J. Politics and Society in Wales, 1840-1922: Essays in Honour of Ieuan Gwynedd Jones, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1988.
• John, Edward T. Home Rule for Wales. Jarvis/Foster, 1912.
• Jones, E T. Wales; Its Politics and Economics. 1919
• Jones, I G. The Liberation Society and Welsh Politics, 1844-1868. The Welsh History Review, vol,1, no 2, 1961
• Jones, I G. Health, Wealth and Politics in Victorian Wales. 1979
• Jones, I G. Mid-Victorian Wales: the Observers and the Observed. Cardiff, 1992
• Lewis, Hubert. (ed J E Lloyd). The Ancient Laws of Wales. Elliot Stock London, 1889.
• Local Government in Wales. House of Commons 1967
• Lort-Phillips, P. The Future of Wales. 1961
• Madgwick, Peter and others. The Politics of Rural Wales. 1973
• Morgan, J Vyrnwy [ed]. Welsh Political and Educational Leaders in the Nineteenth Century. 1908
• Morgan, K O. Wales in British Politics 1868-1922. Rev. ed, UWP, Cardiff, 1991.
• Morgan, K O. Lloyd George (British Prime Minister Series). 1974
• Morgan, K O. Lloyd George and the Historians. Trans Hon Soc Cymm. 1972
• Morgan, K O. Gladstone and Wales. Welsh History Review, vol 1/1 1960
• Morgan, Kenneth O. Labour's Early Struggles in South Wales: Some New Evidence, 1900-8. National Library of Wales journal. 1972, Winter Volume XVII/4
• Morgan, Kenneth O. Modern Wales; Politics, Places and People. 1995
• Morgan, K O. The Liberal Unionists in Wales. NLW journal xvi/2 Winter 1969
• Morgan, K O. Wales in British Politics, 1868-1922. 3rd ed 1980
• Morris, Rhys Hopkin. Welsh Politics. 1927
• Our Changing Democracy; Devolution in Scotland and Wales.House of Commons 1975/6, and Supplementary Staement 1976
• Parry, C. The Radical Tradition in Welsh Politics. 1970
• Philip, Alan B. The Welsh Question; Nationalism in Welsh Politics, 1945-1970. 1975
• Pretty, D. The Rural Revolt that Failed. Farm Workers' Trade Unions in Wales, 1889-1950. UWP, 1989
• Rees, G L and others. Survey of the Welsh Economy. 1974
• Rees, I Bowen. The Welsh Political Tradition. 1961
• Rees, William . Calendar of Ancient petitions Relating to Wales. University of Wales Press 1975. List of petitions to Parliament by Welsh people (gentry!) from 1290-1480
• Report of Government Action in Wales and Monmouthshire. House of Commons 1945/6
• Report of Government Action and Developments in Wales and Monmouthshire. House of Commons 1960/1
• Richard, H. Letters on the Social and Political Conditions of the Principality of Wales. 1866
• Richards, Melville.   Welsh Administrative and Territiorial Units. Cardiff, 1969
• Smith J Beverley.  The Principality of Wales in the latter Middle Ages: The structure and personnel of government 1. South Wales, 1277-1536   Ceredigion Vol VII
• Tanner, Duncan and Chris Williams and Deian Hopkin. The Labour Party in Wales, 1900-2000. Cardiff, 2000
• The Council for Wales and Monmouthshire; a memorandum on its activities. House of Commons 1950 and Second memo 1952/3, Third memo 1956/7. Fourth memo 1958/9
• The Council for Wales and Monmouthshire; reports of the Rural development Panel, House of Commons 1953/4
• The Welsh Council; a Strategy for Rural Wales. HMSO 1971
• Thomas, Brinley. The Welsh Economy. 1962
• Thomas, Ned. The Welsh Extremist. 1970
• Thomas, Peter D G. Politics in Eighteenth Century Wales. 1998
• Wales; the Way Ahead. House of Commons 1967
• Williams, David. A Report on the Turnpike Trusts. NLW journal Vol VIII/2, Winter, 1953.
• Williams, David.     'Chartism in Wales'  in Asa Briggs (ed) Chartist Studies, 1959
• Williams, L J. The New Unionism in Wales. Welsh History Review, vol 1/4
• Williams, R. Wales and its money. 1974.

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc. 

• Bowen, I.  Grand juries, justices of the peace, and quarter sessions in Wales. Cymmrodorion 1933-35.
• Hagen, Grace.   Women and Poverty in south-west Wales, 1834-1914.     Llafur VII
• Howell, David W        The Rural Poor in Eighteenth Century Wales.    Cardiff, 2000
• Jones, Glyn Penrhyn.  Newyn a Haint [Famine and plague] yng Nghymru.  Caernarfon. 1962
• Lewis, T H.    The justices of the peace in Wales        Cymmrodorion, 1943-44
• Lewis, Thomas H. Documents Illustrating the County Gaol and House of Correction in Wales. Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, Session 1946-47. 1948 (London).

Religion and Religious Life

• Attwater, D. The Catholic Church in Modern Wales. 1935
• Ballinger, John. The Bible in Wales. 1906
• Bassett, T. M. The Welsh Baptists. 1977 (Ilston House, Swansea). 411pp. inc. indexes. foreword by Sir Ben Bowen Thomas
• Bund, J W Willis.    The Celtic Church of Wales. D. Nutt, 1897.
• Cleary, J M. The Catholic resistance in Wales. Blackfriars, March 1957
• Clements, Mary. Correspondence and Minutes of the SPCK relating to Wales 1699-1740 . (Univ Wales Press 1952). Excellent index.
• Davies, B. Edited version of the Rev Joshua Thomas's Hanes y Bedyddwyr yn Mhlith y Cymry o Amser yr Apostolion hyd y flwyddyn 1797 [History of the Baptists Among the Welsh from the time of the Apostles to the year 1797]. Pontypridd, 1885 [LDS GS 994005]
• Davies, D Elwyn. They Thought for Themselves. Llandysul, 1982. The story of Unitarianism and the liberal tradition in Wales.
• Davies, E Tegla . 'Welsh Wesleyan Methodism', in the Methodist Church: its Origins, Divisions and Reunion. 1932
• Davies, G.   Flashes from the Welsh Pulpit. Hodder & Stoughton, 1888
• Davies, W.   Hanes Ymneilltuaeth  [History of the Dissenters]. Y Diwygiwr, 1848
• Davis, J. A History of the Welsh Baptists. Pittsburg, 1835. Reprinted by the Church History Research and Archives, Gallatin, Tennessee, 1982
• Day, G & Fitton, M. Religion and Social Status in Rural Wales. Sociological Review 23/4 [Nov 1975]
• Emanuel, H D. Dissent in the Counties of Glamorgan and Monmouth . National Library of Wales journal, 1954, Winter. Volume VIII/4  
  • First in series . This has a general introduction to the subject, plus entries for places from Aberavon to Goytrey. Also 1955, Summer. Volume IX/1; The second in the series, covers places from Grosmont to Merthyr Tydfil. Also 1955, Winter. Volume IX/2  ; the final in the series, covers places from Michaelston-super-Avon to Ystradyfodwg.
• Evans, D S (ed). The Welsh Life of St David. UWP, 1988. 150pp. A presentation of the original medieval Welsh text in the Book of the Anchorite of Llanddewibrefi, c 1350.
• #Evans, Eifion . The Welsh Revival of 1904. Published 1969 and reprinted in 1996 by The Evangelical Press of Wales.
• Gandy, Michael. Catholics in Wales. Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry. Edited by John & Sheila Rowlands. FFHS, 1999
• Gruffydd, Geraint. The Translating of the Bible into the Welsh Tongue. 1998
• Hughes, John. Methodistaeth Cymru [Methodism in Wales]. Vol I-III Liverpool, 1851-56 [LDS GS 994021]
• Isaac, Evan (Rev). Prif Emynwyr Cymru. (The chief hymnists of Wales). Lerpwl, 1925
• Jenkins, Geraint H. Literature, Religion and Society in Wales 1660-1730. (Studies in Welsh History No. 2) 1st printed 1978; reprinted 1980. (Univ. Wales Press, Cardiff) 351pp. inc. biblio. and index.
• Jenkins, G H. Protestant Dissenters in Wales 1639-1689. UWP, 1992
• #Jenkins, Nigel. Gwalia in Khasia. Gomer Press, 1995.
• Jenkins, R T. The Moravian Brethren in North Wales. London. Hon Soc Cym. 1938
• John, Terry and Nona Rees.  Pilgrimage: A Welsh Perspective.   Gomer Catalogue 2006.  ISBN 1 84323 081 X  "In the Middle Ages pilgrimage was an accepted part of life ........ throughout Wales there are tantalising traces of  the journeys made by Welsh pilgrims....."
• Jones Francis. The Holy Wells of Wales. 1954
• Jones, Hugh [Rev]. Hanes Wesleyiaeth Cymreig [A History of the Welsh Wesleyans]. Vols I-IV. Bangor, 1912 [LDS GS 994020]
• Jones, I.G. & Williams, D. The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 1, South Wales.    UWP,   Cardiff, 1976.
  • From the dust jacket;-
    "This volume is a calendar of the returns made in south Wales to the Religious Census of 1851 - the only occasion in modern times when there was an official and comprehensive count of the accommodation available for, and the actual attendance at, religious worship. The returns themselves, which are preserved in the Public Record Office, have been transcribed and the information in them presented in a standardized form. All idiosyncracies of spelling and presentation in the original returns have been preserved. Additional information from other contemporary sources - including population figures for all parishes and other divisions - has been added so as to make the calendar as comprehensive as possible. A long, introductory essay places the Census in its historical background, explains why and how it came to be made and the method used in its compilation, and suggests ways in which it can be reliably used by the researcher. The volume thus makes available to students of the history of religion and of society, and particularly to local historians, a source of primary importance."
• Jones, I.G.   The Religious Census of 1851: A Calendar of the Returns Relating to Wales: Volume II North Wales.  UWP, 1980.
• Jones, J.   Y Bywgraffydd Wesleyaidd: bras-hanes am 61 o weinidogion Wesleyaidd Cymreig. 1866.
• Jones-Humphreys, Parchg T. Wesleaeth Gymreig. Published in Dolgellau 1900, details the founders and leading lights of Wesleyan Methodism in Wales during its first 100 years
• Morgan, D Densil.    The Span of the Cross: Christian Religion and Society in Wales 1914-2000.   Cardiff, 1999
• Nash Williams. Early Christian Monuments of Wales. 1950.
• Nuttall, G F. The Welsh Saints, 1640-60. 1957
• Phillips, H D. Early Quakers in Wales. 1912.
• Phillips, Thomas. The Welsh Revival: its origins and development (1860; reprint 1989 Edinburgh)
• Pope, Robert. Building Jerusalem: nonconformity, labour, and social question in Wales, 1906-1939.
• Redknapp, Mark. The Christian Celts: Treasures of late Celtic Wales. 1991
• Rees, Thomas . History of Protestant Nonconformity in Wales.  1883. The book covers period from mid 16th century up to 1880.It is indexed, lots of names, dates, places associated with key dissenting and non-conformist church men - many potted biographies.
• Rees, Thomas . History of Protestant Nonconformity in Wales; from it's Rise to the Present Time. J Snow, 1861.
• Rees, Thomas. Hanes Eglwysi Annibynol Cymru [A History of the Independent Churches in Wales] Vols I-V. Y Tyst Cymreig, 1873
• Rees, T Mardy. A History of the Quakers in Wales and their Emigration to North America. Spurrel, 1925
• Report, Minutes of Evidence and Appendices of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the Church and other Religious Bodies in Wales. House of Commons 1910
• Richards, Thomas, M.A. The Puritan Movement in Wales, 1639 to 1653. 1920 (London)
  • Won prize of £50 for best piece of research at National Eisteddfod of 1918. Sir John Lloyd was the judge, who points out in his intro. that, while the author's conclusion might not win general approval, his presentation of his sources is very sound. In Dec 2006 this book was downloadable from Microsoft's Windows Live site - under title ' A History of the Puritan Movement in Wales' 1920
• Richards, Thomas. Wales Under the Penal Code, published by the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1925. Includes details of "Protestant Dissidents" and "Popish Recusants" penalised between 1662 and 1687
• Richards, Thomas. Religious Developments in Wales, 1654-1662. 1923.
• Richards, Thomas. The Religious census of 1676. Cymmrodorion, 1927. (referring to Wales)
• Roberts, Gomer M. Methodistiaeth Gynnar Gwaelod Sir Aberteifi [Early Methodism in Lower Cardiganshire]. Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society journal, Vol 5/1, 1964
• Roberts, Gomer M. Hanes Methodistiaeth Galfinaidd Cymry ; Y Deffroad Mawr [ History of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists : The Great Awakening] Vol I, Caernarfon, 1978. And  : ' Growth of the Connection', Vol II, 1978
• Rowlands, John. Indicators of Nonconformist Ancestry. Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry. Edited by John & Sheila Rowlands. FFHS, 1999.
• Rowlands, Sheila. A Clergyman in the family. Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry. Edited by John & Sheila Rowlands. FFHS, 1999. Examples and case-studies taken from one extended family, the Albans, from mid-Cardiganshire
• Saunders. Erasmus.   A View of the State of Religion in the Diocese of St David's about the beginning of the 18th Century.      London 1721. Reprinted Cardiff 1949
• Stephens, T [ed]. Welsh Independent Church (Yr Eglwys Annibynol Cymru) .Merthyr Tydfil ,1888. Contains biographies of 267 past students ordained between 1755 and 1880.
• The Wesleyan Methodist Historic Roll.
  • Comprises 50 volumes or over 17,500 pages containing the names of over one million people who contributed one guinea to the Twentieth Century Fund, also known as the Million Guinea Fund. The fund was launched in 1898 and by the time it closed in 1904 had raised £1,073,682. Many of the pages of the Historic Roll contain the signatures and addresses of the donors, as well as donations given "in memoriam". The names of many Sunday School scholars who donated one shilling  each to the fund may also be found in the Historic Roll.
• Thomas, ?.  The Welsh Elizabethan Catholic Martyrs .1971
• Thomas, Josuah.   Hanes y Bedyddwyr (History of the Baptists) is in two parts.
  • The first part part is a Greek style dialogue between father and son regarding the development of the Baptists from the time of the Apostles to the time of writing - i.e.1778. The second part deals with the history of all the Baptist churches in Wales and the Borders but mainly dealing with the ministers that served there together with instances listing members that had been Baptised on given dates and by whom. There is no index .
• Thomas, Patrick. Candle in the Darkness: Celtic Spirituality from Wales.  Gomer Catalogue 2006. ISBN 0 86383 974 6     "In the fifth and sixth centuries Romano-British society was crushed by a wave of barbarian invasions. Out of this destruction grew, ironically, the distinctive sprituality of the Celtic Church...."
• Tudur Jones, R. Yr Undeb, Hanes Annibynwyr Cymraeg 1872-1972.
• Wade-Evans, A W. Welsh Christian Origins. Oxford, 1934.
• Welsh Baptist Studies edited by Mansel John, quite a few names in this.
• Williams, A.H. Welsh Wesleyan Methodism. 1935. gives details of all Wesleyan ministers and lay preachers in Wales from 1800 to 1858.
• Williams, D H. Atlas of Cistercian Lands in Wales. UWP, 1990.
• Williams, Glanmor. Religion, Language and Nationality in Wales. UWP, 1979 
• Williams, Glanmor. Renewal and Reformation in Wales c 1415-1642. 1987
• Williams, Glanmor.   The Welsh Church from the Conquest to Reformation.  Cardiff, 1962
• Williams, Glanmor. Wales and the Reformation. 1997
• Williams, G. The Welsh and their Religion. UWP, 1991. 237pp. Six essays ranging from ; the Welsh attitude to Christianity; Neath Abbey; Bishop Henry de Gower; the Reformation in Carmarthen; the influences of the Reformation and Counter Reformation on Welsh literary expression; Bishop William Morgan's translation of the Bible.
• Williams, William [Rev].  Welsh Calvinistic Methodism: A Historical Sketch of the Presbyterian Church of Wales. Orig. published in London in 1872. This edition enlarged and published by Bryntirion in 1998. It is indexed according to 'people, places and other matters'.
• Young, David. Origin and History of Methodism in Wales & the Borders. 1893

Schools

• Carter, Richard and Walter Jones. A Late Victorian school in Wales.
  • Gomer, site intro; "This book could support pupils in the study of SU3 of the National Curriculum History Order for Wales, Life in Modern Wales and Britain, will also have a wider appeal to anyone wishing to find out more about what life was like in a school in Wales around a century ago.Through the extensive use of photographs and documentary sources, questions are raised that can either be considered and answered by the pupils themselves using information given in the book, or lead to a general classroom discussion."
• Clements, Mary. Correspondence and Minutes of the SPCK relating to Wales 1699-1740 . (Univ Wales Press 1952). Excellent index.
• Davies, B L. British Schools in South Wales, The Rev William Roberts (Nefydd), South Wales, Representative of the British and Foreign School Society, 1853-1863 , National Library of Wales journal. 1974, Winter. Volume XVIII/4
• Davies, J A. Education in a Welsh Rural County, 1870-1913. 1913
• Davies, W. Cadwaladr/Jones, W. Lewis. College Histories: the University of Wales and its Constituent Colleges. 1905 (London).
• Davies, Wynford.  Narberth County Intermediate School, 1895-1924 National Library of Wales journal, Vol XXIII/1, Summer 1983. This article deals with the general educational and social background to secondary education in Wales in late Victorian times - as well as Narberth in particular.
• Ellis, T I. The Development of Higher Education in Wales. 1935
• Evans, D Emrys. The University of Wales. 1953
• Evans, Leslie Wynne. Colliery Schools in South Wales in the Nineteenth Century. National Library of Wales journal. 1957, Winter. Volume X/2
• Evans, Leslie Wynne. Copper-Works Schools in South Wales during the Nineteenth Century. National Library of Wales journal. 1959, Summer Volume XI/1. There are 27 Appendices which contain data concerning individual schools in Kilvey, Hafod, Llanelly, Pembrey, Margam, Maesteg and Pontamman.
• Evans, Leslie Wynne. School Boards and the Works School System after the Education Act of 1870. National Library of Wales journal. 1967, Summer Volume XV/1
• Evans, Leslie Wynne. Voluntary Education in the Industrial Areas of Wales before 1870. National Library of Wales journal. Vol XIV/4, Winter 1966
• Evans, L Wynne. Studies in Welsh Education. 1974
• Jenkins, Geraint H   The Foundations of Modern Wales 1642 - 1780.  Clarendon Press, University of Wales Press, 1987. Here is an extract of  GRIFFITH JONES AND THE CIRCULATING SCHOOLS  pages 370 - 381)
• Jones, E D. The Journal of William Roberts ('Nefydd'), 1853-62. National Library of Wales journal Vol VIII/2 Winter, 1953 et al.
  • The complete series of eight articles have been extracted by Gareth Hicks'
    Introduction; "William Roberts, a Baptist Minister at Blaina, Monmouthshire, and author of Crefydd yr Oesoedd Tywyll... 1852, a study of Mari Lwyd and Welsh folk customs, was in 1853 appointed agent in South Wales for the British and Foreign School Society. He was a native of Lannefydd, Denbighshire, hence his penname 'Nefydd'. The draft of the journal of his activities, written for the information of the Society's Committee, from 1853 to 1862 is preserved as N.L.W. MS. 7106. It is a valuable document for the history of the development of elementary education in South Wales. "
• Jones, P Mansell. How they Educated Jones. 1974
• Jones, W R. Bilingualism in Welsh Education. Cardiff, 1976
• List of Public Elementary Schools in Wales on 1 August 1906. House of Commons 1907
• Nash, Gerallt D. Victorian School days in Wales. UWP, 1991
• Primary Education in Wales. HMSO 1968
• Randall, P J. The Origins and Establishment of the Welsh Department of Education. Welsh History Review, vol 7/4 June 1975
• Report of Commission of Enquiry into the State of Education in Wales. 3 vols. 1847. This page has some of the Commissioners overview reports relating to Cardiganshire (and Brecknockshire, Radnorshire) as well as a list of the parishes in Cardiganshire that have the individual reports online.
• Report of the Committee appointed to inquire into the Condition of Higher Education in Wales. House of Commons 1881
• Report of the Board of Education on the Administration of Schools under the Welsh Intermediate Education Act of 1889. House of Commons 1901
• Report and Minutes of Evidence of the Royal Commission on the University of Wales. 1917/18
• Report of the Departmental Committee on the organisation of Secondary Education in Wales. House of Commons 1920
• Report of the Departmental Committee on Welsh Education and Life. HMSO 1927
• Report of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire into Public Education in Wales and Monmouthshire in relation to the needs of Rural Areas. HMSO 1930
• Report of the Central Advisory Council on the future of Secondary Education in Wales. HMSO 1949
• Report of the Central Advisory Council on the place of Welsh and English in the Schools of Wales. HMSO 1953
• Report on Education in Rural Wales. HMSO 1960
• Roberts, Gwyneth Tyson.    The Language of the Blue Books: the Perfect Instrument of Empire.    Cardiff, 1998
• Seaborne, Malcolm. Schools in Wales, 1500-1900; a social and architectural history. Denbigh, 1992
• Shankland, Thomas[Rev]. Sir John Philipps of Picton, the SPCK and the Charity School Movement in Wales 1699-1737.   Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, Session 1904-05.
  • This article takes up 142 pp. of the journal. Appendixes give extracts of correspondents, Letters and Minutes of SPCK, here is a List of Names and dates of foundation of Charity-Schools set up in Wales 1699-1737, and List of Charity and Elementary Schools set up in Wales in same period, gives huge amount of detail on schools, numbers of pupils, patrons, etc
• Smith, Robert. Schools, politics and society; elementary education in Wales, 1870-1902. Cardiff, 1999
• Webster, J R. The First Reports of Owen M. Edwards on Welsh Intermediate Schools. National Library of Wales journal. 1958, Winter Volume X/4. (The schools featured are in Caernarvonshire)
• Welsh in Education and in Life. Report to Board of Education. 1927
• Williams, Glanmor and others. Pioneers of Welsh Education. 1964
• Williams, J Gwynn. The University College of North Wales Foundations 1884-1927

Social Life and Customs

• A Welsh Welcome (Croeso Cymru). Recipes for Some Traditional Welsh Dishes. Wales Gas Board, 1959   Here is a listing of recipes and home made wines, name only, by Gareth Hicks
• Aaron, Jane and Teresa Rees, Sandra Betts and Moira Vincentelli. (eds) Our Sisters' Land; The Changing Identities of Women in Wales. 1994
• Anon. Letters from Wales. London, 1889
• Bell, D. The Artist in Wales. 1957
• Bell, H Idris. The Crisis of Our Time and Other Papers. 1954
• Berry, David. Wales and Cinema - The First Hundred Years. UWP, 1994
• Betts, Clive.   Culture in Crisis: The Future of the Welsh Language. 1976 (Ffynnon Press, Merseyside) . 243pp. inc. appendices and index. 20 b/w pls. book had genesis in a series of articles in The Western Mail
• Bevan, Alun Wyn. Welsh Sporting Greats. Gomer, Llandysul. (1 85902 892 6). Gomer's 2002 Catalogue;- ".......................this fully illustrated book will be a treat for sports enthusiasts everywhere. "
• Billiott, John. The History of Welsh International Rugby. 1970
• Bowen, H. (ed) Architecture in Wales. 1966-9
• Breeze, Andrew. Welsh Medieval Literature. 1991
• Bromwich, Rachel (ed). Dafydd ap Gwilym Poems. Gomer, Llandysul. (0 85088 815 8). Gomer Catalogue 2002;- "This is a book to treasure. At long last we can tell the world about Wales and Dafydd ap Gwilym, one of the truly great poets of the Middle Ages" Welsh Books and Writers.
• Bromwich, Rachel (ed). The Beginnings of Welsh Poetry. 2nd ed, UWP, 1990.
• Brooks, J A.  Ghosts & Legends of Wales.   1987
• Carradice, Phil.  Wales at War [WW2].  Gomer Catalogue 2006. ISBN  1 84323 321 5   and its sequel Coming Home: Wales after the War     ISBN 1 84323 476 9
• Chapman, Murray Ll. An English Settlement in Western Montgomeryshire in the Tudor Period. Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry. Edited by John & Sheila Rowlands. FFHS, 1999. A study of in-migration.
• Cleaver, Emrys. Musicians of Wales. 1968
• Conran, Tony. Welsh Verse. 1987
• Coupland, R. Welsh and Scottish Nationalism. 1954
• Crossley-Holland, P (ed). Music in Wales. 1948
• Cule, John. Wales & Medicine...a source list...of books and papers... of medicine in relation to Wales & Welshmen. NLW, 1980.
• Cule, John. Some Early Hospitals in Wales and the Border. National Library of Wales journal. 1977, Winter Volume XX/2
• Curtis, Tony (ed). Wales; The Imagined Nation. Essays in Cultural and National Identity. 1986
• Davies, D Hywel. The Welsh Nationalist Party 1925-1945: a call to nationhood. UWP, 1983
• Davies, Elwyn & Rees, A D [eds]. Welsh Rural Communities. Cardiff, 1950
• Davies, J C. The Folklore of West and Mid Wales. 1911
• Davies, John. Broadcasting and the BBC in Wales. UWP, 1994
• Davies, L Twiston/Edwards, A. Welsh Life in the 18th Century .1959
• Davies, Rhian A. The National Eisteddfod. Gomer online catalogue, 2003. Discovering Wales
• Dunthorne, K (ed). Artists exhibited in Wales, 1945-74. 1976
• Eames, Marion. A Private Language: A dip into Welsh Literature. ISBN 1 85902 468 8.
  • Gomer site intro; "The last forty years or so have seen an unprecedented number of newcomers to Wales, both as tourists and as settlers. Most of them come with little or no knowledge of the Welsh language or of its writers along the ages. Some are not bothered, some find it a 'private language' and give up. Others, who would like to know more, look in vain for an easily - read outline for busy people who may be intimidated by academic volumes, excellent though they may be. That there is a demand for a more popular read became apparent when the author of this book was persuaded to take on an Adult Education class, in English, on Welsh Literature. The success of this over two years was undoubtedly due to the author herself being able to approach her task as a non-academic journalist who wanted to find out more for herself."
• Edwards, Hywel Teifi. The Eisteddfod. UWP, 1990
• #Egan, David.  People, Protest and Politics Case studies in C19 Wales. Gomer 1987. In Gomer's 2002 Catalogue (0 86383 350 0)
• Ellis, Megan. Original Documents: Dress and Dress Materials for a 'Serving Maid', c 1600 NLW journal,Winter. 1939,Volume I/2 . The basis of the article are dress material related lists of payments in Welsh and English, with costs in most cases.
• Ellis, T P. Welsh tribal law and custom in the middle ages, 2 vols. Oxford, 1926
• Emmett, I A. A north Wales village: a social anthropological study. 1964.
• Evans, George Ewart. (ed) Welsh Short Stories. 1959
• Evans, H. Tobit. Rebecca and her Daughters, Cardiff (1910) 260p. - the complete book is accessible on the Internet Archive site - click on Texts and search on Cardiff
• Fawkes, Richard. Welsh National Opera. 1986
• First Report of the Welsh Consultative Council on Medical and Allied Services in Wales. House of Commons 1920
• First Interim Report of the Welsh Reconstruction Advisory Council. HMSO 1944
• Fitzgibbon,Theodora. A Taste of Wales in Food and in Pictures. Pan Books, London and Sydney, 4th printing 1977. ISBN 0 330 23624 5. Here is a list of photographs and recipes by Venita Roylance
• Fuller, Peter/Kemp, Brian. Welsh Murders Volume 1: 1770-1918. Christopher Davies 1986. Here is a listing by Gareth Hicks of contents and names mentioned in the book
• Graham. J. A Century of Welsh Music. 1923
• Green, M J. Exploring the World of the Druids. Thams & Hudson, 1997. .
• Griffith, F. (ed). Notable Welsh Musicians. 1896
• Gwyndaf, Robin. Chwedlau Gwerin Cymru/Welsh Folk Tales. 1995
• Gwynfor Jones, J. Class Community & Culture in Tudor Wales. UWP, 1989.
• Harper/Sunderland (ed). Genetics & Population Studies in Wales. UWP, 1986.
• Herbert, T & Jones, G.E.   People and Protest ; Wales 1815-1880. UWP, 1988
• Hilling, John B. The Historic Architecture of Wales. 1976
• Housing in England and Wales. House of Commons 1960/1
• Howard, Sharon.     Riotous Community: Crowds, Politics and Society in Wales c1700-1840.   Welsh History Review, 20
• #Howell, David. Land and People in C19 Wales. London, 1977.
• Howell, D.W. The Rural Poor in Eighteenth Century Wales. UWP, 2000. 317pp. Study of the people who lived/worked off the land in C18th Wales.
• Hughes, Ceriog & Brinley Richards. The Songs of Wales. Boosey & co.
• Hughes, Cledwyn. West with the tinkers; a journey through Wales with vagrants. London, Odhams Press, 1954, 223 pp. Reviewed in Dyfed FHS journal, Vol7/7, April 2002. " .......A book full of gipsy and tinker life, country customs and a miscellany of topographical items to educate and amuse."
• Jarman, A O H (ed).  Aneirin: Y Gododdin. Gomer, Llandysul.(0 86383 354 3).
  • Aneirin's masterly description of the rout of the men of Gododdin at the hand's of the English in 6th century Britain. Gomer Catalogue 2002 ;- "A O H Jarman's beautifully designed new edition, with facing Welsh text and English translation of all but the hardest lines, will win the poem the admirers in the English speaking world that it has so long deserved" Times Literary Supplement
• Jarman, A O H & Hughes, Gwilym Rees. A Guide to Welsh Literature, Vol I. 1976
• Jenkins, G (ed). Studies in Folk Life. Essays in Honour of I C Peate. 1969
• Jenkins, Geraint H. and Beverley Smith,  J. Politics and Society in Wales, 1840-1922: Essays in Honour of Ieuan Gwynedd Jones, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1988.
• Jenkins, Geraint H. Literature, Religion and Society in Wales 1660-1730. (Studies in Welsh History No. 2) 1st printed 1978; reprinted 1980. (Univ. Wales Press, Cardiff) 351pp. inc. biblio. and index.
• Jenkins, Geraint H [ed]. Language and Community in the Nineteenth Century. UWP, 1998
• Jenkins, J Geraint.  Life and Tradition in Rural Wales   London, 1976
• Jenkins, R T. The Development of Nationalism in Wales. Sociological Review, 1935
• John, Angela V. (ed) Our Mothers' Land. Chapters in Welsh Women's History 1830-1939. University of Wales, 1997. Contributors;-
  • Chapter 1: Women, Community and Collective Action: The 'Ceffyl Pren' Tradition by Rosemary A. N. Jones
  • Chapter 2: Beyond Paternalism: The Ironmaster's Wife in the Industrial Community by Angela V. John
  • Chapter 3: The True "Cymraes": Images of Women in Women's Nineteenth-Century Welsh Periodicals by Sian Rhiannon Williams
  • Chapter 4: "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night": Women and Suicide in Carmarthenshire, c.1860-1920 by Russell Davies
  • Chapter 5: Counting the Cost of Coal: Women's Lives in the Rhondda, 1881-1911 by Dot Jones
  • Chapter 6: From Temperance to Suffrage by Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan
  • Chapter 7: "The Petty Antics of the Bell-Ringing Boisterous Band" The Women's Suffrage Movement in Wales, 1890-1918 by Kay Cook and Neil Evans
  • Chapter 8: Munitionettes, Maids and Mams: Women in Wales, 1914-1939 by Deidre Beddoe
• Johnston, Dafydd (ed). Iolo Goch: Poems. Gomer, Llandysul. Iolo Goch's vivid expression of the ideals and aspirations of his fourteenth century patrons. (Gomer Catalogue 2002, 0 86383 707 7)
• Jones, Brinley [ed]. Anatomy of Wales. Gwerin Publications, 1972
• #Jones, David. Before Rebecca, Popular Protests in Wales 1793-1835,   published by Allen Lane 1973.  
• Jones, David J V. Crime in Nineteenth Century Wales . UWP, 1992
• Jones, D.L.V. Rebecca's Children: A study of rural society, crime and protest, Oxford, Clarendon Press (1989) 423 p. ["This book sets the riots in the wider context of a changing rural society. It is a study of Rebecca's children, the peasantry of Wales. The author examines their economy, poverty, family life, popular culture, social attitudes, crime and politics."]
• Jones, Dot & Williams, L J. Women at Work in the Nineteenth Century: parallels and differences. Llafur,3 [1982]
• Jones, Eirwen. Folk Tales of Wales. Gomer, Llandysul. (0 85088 473 X) Gomer Catalogue 2002;- "Thirty folk tales, simply told, drawn from all parts of Wales........"
• Jones, Francis. The Holy Wells of Wales. 1954
• G Penrhyn Jones, Cholera in Wales. National Library of Wales journal Vol X/3 Summer 1958.
• #Jones, Gareth and Dai Smith (eds). The People of Wales.
  • Published by Gomer, site intro; "The people of Wales, their struggles and achievements, their life-styles, beliefs and day-to-day concerns, are the subjects of this wide-ranging study. Naturally, their story is placed in the wider political and social context, so that changes spanning a thousand years of Welsh history are comprehensively documented. Essays by an impressive group of historians were commissioned by the BBC to complement their Millennium radio series. The editors ...... have encouraged contributors to explore among other matters the quintessence of Welshness. Welsh stereotypes, the self-image of the Welsh people, and how these match and differ from reality over a thousand years make challenging reading.."
• Jones, Gwyn. Welsh Legends & Folk Tales. 1975
• Jones, Gwyn (ed). Oxford Book of Welsh Verse in English. 1977
• Jones, G R. The Tribal System in Wales; a Reassessment. Welsh History Review,1.  1960/2
• Jones, G & T Jones (trans). The Mabinogion. Dent, 1975     A translation of the complete collection of Welsh medieval stories.
• Jones, Ieuan Gwynedd . Explorations and Explanations: Essays in the Social History of Victorian Wales, Llandysul: Gomer Press, 1981.
• Jones, Ieuan Gwynedd. Communities: Essays in the Social History of Victorian Wales, Llandysul: Gomer Press, 1987.
• Jones, Ieuan Gwynedd. Mid-Victorian Wales: the Observers and the Observed, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1992.
• Jones, Ieuan Gwynedd. Health, Wealth and Politics in Victorian Wales. Swansea, 1979
• Jones, J Gwynfor. Class, Community and Culture in Tudor Wales. UWP, 1989
• Jones, J Gwynfor. Concepts of order and gentility in Wales, 1540-1640. Gomer, 1992.
• Jones, Mary Eirwen.  Welsh Crafts: An Account of the Historic Welsh Crafts as They Exist Today .1978 (Batsford)160pp. inc. preface, intro. and index. 27 b/w photo. illus. crafts covered: textiles, stone, wood, leather, grass, metal, ceramics, and decorative crafts
• Jones, R Gerallt (ed).   Poetry of Wales, 1930-70. 1974
• Jones, William[Rev]. A Prize Essay on the Character of the Welsh as a Nation. London, 1841.
• Kinney, Phyllis & Meredydd Evans.    Canu'r Cymry.  1984
• Lambert, W R. The Welsh Sunday Closing Act, 1881. Welsh History Review, Vol 6/2, Dec 1972
• Lambert, W R. Drink and Sobriety in Victorian Wales c 1820-c1895. UWP, 1982
• Lamford, Gerry OBE. The Defence of Lucy Walter. Lucy was a young west Wales girl who claimed to be married to Charles II, who denied it. She was pilloried and defamed throughout history, the author however puts a different light on the matter, a gripping tale told with style and a ring of truth .
• Lee, Lisa. Welsh Tales for the Fireside. Gomer, Llandysul (1 85902 542 0). Gomer Catalogue 2002;- "No one loves a tall tale better than the Welsh................"
• Lewis , D . Pobl Wrth Eu Gwaith/People at Work . Llandysul 1987. Here  is an index by Jill Smith
• Lewis, Saunders. An Introduction to Contemporary Welsh Literature.  1926
• # Llafur- Journal of Welsh Labour History, Vol 5/1 1988.
• Llewellyn, Sian.  The Welsh Kitchen: Recipes from Wales. Celtic Ed. Services, Swansea. 1972. Here is a list of recipes (Welsh/English names only) by Gareth Hicks
• Lloyd, D M & E M(ed)   A Book of Wales. First published 1953. Collins, London. Here is a listing of Contents and Illustrations.
• Lloyd, Lewis W. The Rise of a Native Middle Class: The Pugh Family of Llanfair and Llanbedr, 1775-1900. Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry. Edited by John & Sheila Rowlands. FFHS, 1999. A study of the emergence of a bilingual middle class in C18 & C19 Wales.
• Lord, Peter. Words with Pictures - Welsh Images and images of Wales in the popular press 1640-1860 . Planet; ISBN 0 9505188 2 4
• Lord, Peter. Imaging the Nation. UWP, 2000. Second in series exploring the visual culture of Wales --- from the Tudor period until the 1960s.
• Lord, Peter. The Visual Culture of Wales: Industrial Society. UWP, 1998.
• Lowe, Jeremy.  Welsh Industrial Workers Housing 1775 -1875. Nat Museum of Wales. ISBN: 0-7200-0099-8 ; first pub 1977, reprinted 1985, 1989 and 1994
• Molloy, Pat. And they Blessed Rebecca.
• Moore, D. [ed]. Wales in the 18th century. Swansea, 1970
• Morgan, Gerald. (ed) This World of Wales. 1968
• Morgan, Gerald. (ed) This World of Wales; An Anthology of Anglo-Welsh Poetry from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth century. 1968
• Morgan, K O. Welsh Nationalism; the Historical Background. Jnl of Contemporary History No 6, Jan 1971
• Morgan, Prys. The Eighteenth Century Renaissance. Swansea, 1981
• Morgan, Prys. Background to Wales. 1968
• Morgan, W J. The Welsh Dilemma. 1973
• Morrice, J C.   A Manual of Welsh Literature, containing a brief survey of the works of the chief bards and prose works from the sixteenth century to the end of the eighteenth. 1909
• Morris, Jan.  The Matter of Wales   (Epic views of a small country),1984 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
• Owen, D Huw [ed]. Settlement and Society in Wales. UWP, 1989.
• Owen, Dyfnallt G. Elizabethan Wales: The Social Scene. UWP, Cardiff, 1986
• #Owen, Trefor M. The Customs and Traditions of Wales [A Pocket Guide]. University of Wales Press/Western Mail 1991
• Owen, Trefor M. Welsh Folk Customs.
  • Gomer site intro;"In a museum gallery only the actual object can be displayed, and yet it is the vanished custom, the human action of which it once formed a part, that alone can give the object its full meaning. To help understand its real significance this book re-creates the folk customs in our imagination and show the living whole it appeared to be to our forefathers"
• Owen, Trevor M. Community Studies in Wales. An Overview. 1985
• Parry-Jones, D. Welsh Children's Games & Pastimes. 1964 (Denbigh) 248pp. inc. preface, intor. and biblio.
• Parry, Thomas. A History of Welsh Literature. (Trans H Idris Bell) 1955
• Parry, Thomas. (ed) Oxford Book of Welsh Verse. 1962
• Parry, W J. The Cry of the People with an Appendix on Crown Lands in Wales, and price lists of slates between 1799 and 1906. i. Of Labour. ii. Of Nonconformity. iii.Of the Citizen. 1906.
• Peate, Iorwerth C. The Welsh House.A Study in Folk Culture First published in 1940, reprinted by Llanerch Publishers, Felinfach in 2000. ISBN 1 86143 112 0. Here is a review and  a listing of Contents, Illustrations, Figures and houses/sites mentioned, from the 1940 edition.
• Peate, I.C. Guide to the Collection Illustrating Welsh Folk Crafts & Industries. 1935
• #Peate, Iorwerth C. Diwylliant Gwerin Cymru 1942, 3rd reprint 1998, by Gwasg Gee. This book is about "The Culture of the Welsh People."
• Peate, Iorwerth. Guide to the collection of Welsh bygones: a descriptive account of old fashioned life in Wales, together with a catalogue of the objects exhibited. 1929.
• Peate, Iorwerth C. Tradition and Folk Life: A Welsh View.1972 (Faber) 142pp. inc. intro.and index. 59 b/w illus
• #Phillips. Mervyn.  Wales : Nation & Region . Gomer 1997.
• Pierce, Thomas Jones. Medieval Society in Wales. UWP, 1973.
• Phillips, Sir T.: Wales, the Language, Social Conditions, Moral Character and Religious opinions of the people considered in their relation to Education, etc. John W. Parker, London, 1849.
• Piggott, Stuart . The Druids.1978 reprint (Penguin paperback) 193pp. inc. index, notes on text, notes on plates and biblio. 36 b/w pls, 39 figs. describes the Druids in history and also what they represent to the Romantic imagination
• Pope, Robert. Building Jerusalem: nonconformity, labour, and social question in Wales, 1906-1939.
• Price, Cecil . The English Theatre in Wales in the 18th and early 19th centuries. 1948 (Univ. Wales Press, Cardiff). 202pp. inc. index and appendices. 10 b/w plates.
• Price, Cecil. Some Welsh Theatres, 1844 - 1870, National Library of Wales journal. 1961, Winter Volume XII/2. The towns featured are; Aberystwyth, Abergavenny, Brecon, Carmarthen, Merthyr, Monmouth, Newport, Tredegar and Wrexham.
• Price, Cecil. Portable Theatre in Wales, 1843-1914.   National Library of Wales Journal. Vol IX/1 1955.
• Rees, Alwyn D.  Life in a Welsh Countryside. 1950
• Rees, T Mardy. Welsh Painters, Engravers, Sculptors (1527-1911).
• Rees, T Mardy. Welsh Artists. 1912
• Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the operation of the Sunday Closing (Wales) Act, 1881. House of Commons 1890
• Report on the Administration of the Welsh Board of Health. House of Commons 1920
• Report on Maternal Mortality in Wales. House of Commons 1936/7
• Report of the Committee on the Anti-Tuberculosis service in Wales and Monmouthshire. HMSO 1939
• Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Welsh Broadcasting. House of Commons 1956/7
• Report of the Welsh Advisory Water Committee on the Water Resources of Wales. House of Commons 1960/1
• Richards, Alun. A Touch of Glory - 100 Years of Welsh Rugby . 1980
• Richards, Alun. Penguin Book of Welsh Short Stories. 1976
• Roberts, J. Aelwyn. North Wales privies : Tai bach Gogledd Cymru. Countryside Books, 1998. A descriptive tribute to the lavatories of yester year, from the unhygienic Middle Ages to the more comic encounters of recent times
• Roderick, Alan. The Dragon Entertains - 100 Welsh Stars. Glyndwr Publishing, 2000
• Ross, Anne. Folklore of Wales. 2001.
• Rowan, Eric (ed). Art in Wales 2000 BC - AD 1850. UWP, 1978.
• Rowan, Eric. Art in Wales AD 1850 -1980; an illustrated history. UWP, 1985
• Rowlands, Sheila.  The Welsh in the Professions.   Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry. Edited by John & Sheila Rowlands. FFHS, 1999
• Scourfield , Elfyn . Welsh Rural Life in Photographs. Barry, 1979. Here is an index by Jill Smith
• Seebohm, Frederic. The Tribal System in Wales. Longman, 1904. 2nd print, 238 pp & 127 appendices.
• Smith, David & Williams, Gareth. Fields of Praise: The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union. UWP,1980
• Smith, David. (ed) The People and a Proletariat; Wales 1780-1980.  1980
• #Smith, Eldon. Crime and Punishment in England & Wales, an Outline History.Gomer, 1986. In Gomer's 2002 Catalogue (0 86383 476 0)
• Smith, J Sutcliffe. Impressions of Music in Wales. 1948
• Stephens, Meic (ed). The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales. 1986
• Stephens, Meic(ed). A Book of Wales - An Anthology. 1987
• Stephens, Meic (ed). The Arts in Wales, 1950-75.  1979
• Stevens, Catrin. Courting Customs in Wales. Gomer, Llandysul. (0 86383 658 5). Gomer 2002 Catalogue;-
  • "......examines the range of traditions and custome which were prevalent in a predominately rural Wales before the First World War, including the practice of courting on the bed, caru yn y gwely, for example, which so fascinated English tourists in the last century........"
• Sullivan, Jenny. Celtic Heroines. Gomer, Llandysul. (Gomer Catalogue 2002, 1 84323 073 9),
  • "Rhiannon, Blodeuwedd, Branwen and Olwen --- a litany of names which conjures up the enchanting and often enchanted women of the Mabinogi, those ancient legends that still hold such fascination for the modern inhabitants of the Celtic countries......"
• The Council for Wales and Monmouthshire; Report on Rural Transport Problems in Wales. House of Commons 1961/2
• #The People of Wales . Gareth Elwyn Jones and Dai Smith (eds), 1999.
• Thomas, Brinley. Migration and Economic Growth. Cambridge UP, 1954.
• Thomas, J B G and Rowe Harding (eds). Rugby in Wales. 1970
• Thomas, Ned. The Welsh Extremist. 1971
• Thomas, Patrick. Candle in the Darkness; Celtic Spirituality from Wales. Gomer, Llandysul.(0 86383 974 6). Gomer Catalogue 2002;- "In the fifth and sixth centuries Romano-British society was crushed by a wave of barbarian invasions. Out of this destruction grew, ironically, the distinctive spirituality of the Celtic Church...."
• Thomas, R S. What is a Welshman ? 1974
• Thomas, Wayne.  A Century of Welsh Rugby Players, 1880-1980. 1980
• Trevelyan, Marie. A Glimpse of Welsh Life and Character. 1893 - - the complete book is accessible on the Internet Archive site - click on Texts and search on Welsh Life
• Trevelyan, Marie. Folk-lore and folk-stories of Wales. 1909.
• Underwood, Peter. Ghosts of Wales.1978
• Welsh Education and Life. HMSO report. 1927
• Wallis-Jones, W J. Welsh Characteristics. 1898.
• Watkins, Gwen and Ruth Pryor (eds). That I was Born in Wales. 1976
• Wheatley, Sandra. Urban Growth and Industrialisation in Wales. Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry. Edited by John & Sheila Rowlands. FFHS, 1999
• Wilkinson, Walter. Puppets in Wales. 1948
• Williams, Alice E. A Welsh Folk Dancing Handbook. 1990
• #Williams, D. The Rebecca Riots, Cardiff, Univ. of Wales Press (1986).
• Williams, Gareth. 1905 and All That. Essays on Rugby Football, Sport and Welsh Society. Gomer, 1991
• Williams, Glyn. Social and Cultural Changes in Contemporary Wales. 1978
• Williams, Gwyn. Presenting Welsh Poetry. 1959
• Williams, Gwyn A. The Search for Beulah Land; the Welsh and the Atlantic Revolution. 1980
• Williams, Gwyn A. Women Workers in Contemporary Wales, 1968-82. Welsh History Review, vol 11/4 1984
• Williams, Gwyn. An Introduction to Welsh Literature. 1978
• Williams, Huw. Welsh Clog/Step Dancing. Date unknown
• Williams, John. Was Wales Industrialised ? 1995
• Williams, W S Gwyn. Welsh National Music and Dance. ?1933

Societies

• Jenkins, R T & Ramage, H.  History of the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorion. Y Cymmrodor, L, 1951
• The History of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion 1751-1951.  This includes membership lists for the years 1755, 1759, 1762, & 1778. (name, address, place of origin, and in some lists occupation). As well as people living in Wales, includes many London Welsh & Oxbridge scholars amd others.

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