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Frommer's Wales With Your Familyby Nick Dalton; Deborah Stone
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 27.50Wales With Your Family is a full colour, practical and accessible book for independently minded UK families looking to make the most of their family holiday. The guide highlights the best opportunities for families in the region and offers expert opinion on where to stay, where to eat and where to spend your holiday time enjoyably. Includes: Best Family Experiences, Best Castles, Best Beaches, Best Festivals and Events, Best Attractions for Teenagers and Best Sporting Activities for Families How to plan a trip a family trip to Wales with all the need to know advice. Discover: Welsh legends; Welsh history; Welsh vocabulary; Welsh culture; Welsh food and farmers’ markets; Welsh sports and adventure sports. Areas covered: Cardiff... more...
Irish Migrants in Modern Walesby O'Leary Paul
Liverpool University Press 2004; US$ 70.00Until relatively recently, immigrant and ethnic minority groups were relegated to one of the silences in the history of modern Wales. Where they were mentioned at all it was as outsiders who added a dash of colour and exoticism to the story of the majority but who had little to contribute to our understanding of developments in the mainstream of society. In recent years this picture has begun to change, and historians, sociologists, novelists and the media have all given sustained attention to the immigrant and ethnic minority experience. The essays in this volume examine the experience of Irish migrants to Wales, comparing their experience with that of other migrants and offering case studies of Irish settlement in a number of... more...
Culture, Politics, and National Identity in Wales 1832-1886by Matthew Cragoe
Oxford University Press, UK 2004; US$ 142.95Culture, Politics and National Identity in Wales 1832-86 offers the first comprehensive account of politics in Victorian Wales. Based on a wealth of previously unused sources in both English and Welsh, and grounded firmly in recent scholarship on electioneering elsewhere in Britain, it challenges the existing narrative of political history in the principality. Arguing for the importance of a range of political opinion beyond that distinctively radical Liberalism which. dominates modern accounts, it suggests that politics in nineteenth century Wales was more participatory and nationalistic than has been allowed. - ;Culture, Politics and National Identity in Wales 1832-86 offers the first comprehensive account of politics in the principality... more...
Welsh Castles of Edward Iby A. J. Taylor
Continuum International Publishing 1984; US$ 70.00Arnold Taylor, the leading expert on the subject, provides an authoritative guide to the castles, begun between 1277 and 1295, in a short compass. He deals with their joint and individual features, dates, planning and construction. more...
Sacred History and National Identityby Jason Nice
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2009; US$ 99.00The author uses Brittany and Wales?s responses to unification to write a comparative history of national identity during the early modern period. more...
The Dialogue of the Government of Wales (1594)by John Gwynfor Jones
University of Wales Press 2010; US$ 70.00Comprises an introduction to the background of "The Dialogue", written in 1594 by George Owen of Henllys, north Pembrokeshire. more...
Making Sense of Walesby Graham Day
University of Wales Press 2010; US$ 25.00This volume gives an account of the main changes that have taken place in Welsh society since the 1950s, as well as analysing the major effort to interpret those changes. more...
The Entrepreneurial Society of the Rhondda Valleys, 1840-1920by Richard Griffiths
University of Wales Press 2010; US$ 75.00This is the first significant study of the entrepreneurial society created by the Welsh coal boom (most books up to now having concentrated upon the workers and the unions). more...
Urban Assimilation in Post-Conquest Walesby Matthew Frank Stevens
University of Wales Press 2010; US$ 70.00Uses a case study of the Denbighshire town of Ruthin to discuss both the significance of Englishness versus Welshness and of gender distinctions in the network of small Anglo-Welsh urban centres which emerged in north Wales following the English conquest of 1282. more...
Royal Walesby Deborah Fisher
University of Wales Press 2010; US$ 25.00Covers both the royal families that existed in pre-Conquest Wales and the predominantly English royal families that have ruled over Wales since medieval times. This book examines the changing relationships between the rulers and the ruled in Wales, over a period from the early Middle Ages. more...









