| Topic |
Time frame |
Resource
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Locations Covered
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| Shepherds
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1820-1990
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Howells, Erwyd. Good Men and True: The Lives and Tales of the Shepherds of Mid Wales. Capel Madog: Erwyd Howells. 2005.
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Cardiganshire
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| Parish life
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19th century
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Cooper Rod N. The Two Legged Fox : A True Tale of Victorian Gower. Swansea: Subboscus, 2008.
|
Llanridian, Gower
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| Parish life
|
1920-1940
|
Baker Eileen. 'Yan Boogie' : The Autobiography of a Swansea Valley Girl. Pretoria: Sigma Press (Pty) Ltd. 1992.
|
Swansea Valley
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| Parish life
|
1826-1870
|
Jenkins Thomas and D. C Jenkins. The Diary of Thomas Jenkins of Llandeilo : 1826-1870 2Nd rev. issue ed. Bala: Dragon Books. 1986.
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Carmarthenshire
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| Women's History
|
1919-1945
|
Baker, Eileen. Eileen: Memories of a Working-Class Girl in Depression and War 1919-1945. Swansea, Wales: Robin and Gwyn Campbell. 2006.
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Swansea Valley
|
|
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1880-1920
|
Williams, James. Give Me Yesterday. Llandysul, Wales: Gomer Press, 1971.
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South West Wales
|
|
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1790-1803
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Thomas, Hilary M. ed. The Diaries of John Bird: clerk to the first Marquess of Bute 1790-1803. Cardiff, Wales: South Wales Record Society, 1987.
|
Glamorgan, Wales
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| Smugglers
|
1600-1900
|
Elias, Twm, and Dafydd Meirion. Smugglers of Wales. Llanrwst, Wales: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2017.
|
Wales
|
| Women's History
|
late 1800s
|
Thomas, Maude Morgan. When I was a girl in Wales. New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co. 1936.
|
Pontypool, Monmouthshire
|
| Life at sea
|
1843-1903
|
Eames, Aled, and Robert Thomas. Ship master: the life and letters of Capt. Robert Thomas of Llandwrog and Liverpool 1843-1903. [Caernarfon]: Gwynedd Archives Service. 1980.
|
|
| Parish Life
|
1950s
|
George, David Graham. A Skewen boy looks back. Milton, Carew: David Graham George. 1994.
|
Skewen, Glamorgan
|
| Parish Life
|
early to 1895
|
Puleston, Theophilus H. Gresley. STORY OF A QUIET COUNTRY PARISH: being gleanings of the history of worthenbury, flintshire. London: The Roxburghe Press. 1895.
|
Worthenbury, Flintshire
|
| Rural Life; mining
|
1900-1955
|
Barnes, David. Black Mountains: The Recollections of a South Wales Miner. Talybont, Ceredigion, Wales: Y Lolfa Cyf. 2002.
|
Monmouthshire; Glamorgan
|
|
|
1846-47
|
Evan Evans of Plas Llandecwyn, Merioneth, Bob Owen Croesor Papers, Bangor University (GB 0222 BMSS Croes)
|
Merioneth
|
| Mining
|
1760
|
Linnard, William. "A Swedish Visitor to Flintshire in 1760," Flintshire Historical Society journal (Wales) 30, (1981/2): 145-149.
|
Flintshire
|
| Travel Diary
|
1854
|
Borrow, George. Wild Wales: The People, Language and Scenery. London: Century. 1984. [first published in 1862]
|
Wales
|
| Travel
|
17&18th centuries
|
Pritchard, R. T. "Travellers in Anglesey in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club Transactions ?? (19??): 21-38.
|
Anglesey
|
| Women's History |
1880-1920 |
Davies, Margaret Llewelyn, and Virginia Woolf. Life as we have known it: the voices of working-class women. 2012. (first published 1975)
|
|
| House History
|
1570-1850
|
Owen, D. Huw. Settlement and society in Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 1989.
|
Wales
|
| Rural Life
|
1856-1945
|
Evans, Gwilym. "On the Farm a Century Ago," The Carmarthenshire Historian (Carmarthen, Wales) VIII, (1971): 69-74.
|
Llanarthney; Llanddarog
|
| Rural Life
|
1750-1778
|
Jones, Edmund. A Geographical, Historical and Religious Account of the Parish of Aberystruth: in the County of Monmouth To which are added, Memoirs of Several Persons of Note, Who Lived in the Said Parish. Trevecka: ?. 1779.
|
Aberystruth, Monmouth
|
| Policemen
|
1905-
|
Niall, Ian. The village policeman. Newton Abbot [England]: Country Book Club. 1972.
|
|
| Rural Life |
early 1900s |
Rees, Alwyn D. Life in a Welsh countryside: a social study of Llanfihangel yng Ngwynfa. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 1996.
|
|
| Rural Life
|
1880-1930
|
Williams, D. J. The old farmhouse. Carmarthen, Dyfed, Wales: Golden Grove. 1987.
|
Carmarthenshire
|
| Mining Village
|
1925-1940
|
Healy, Kathleen. Growing Up In A Welsh Valley. Illfracombe, England: Arthur H. Stockwell. 1999.
|
|
| Women's History
|
1830-1939
|
John, Angela V. Our Mothers' Land: Chapters In Welsh Women's History 1830-1939. Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press.1991.
|
|
| Rural Life
|
1856
|
Rodenberg, Julius. An Autumn In Wales (1856): Country And People, Tales And Songs. Cowbridge, Wales: D. Brown and Sons. 1985. (translated & edited by William Linnard)
|
North Wales
|
| Miners
|
1833-1972
|
Thompson, Ceri. From The Cradle To The Coalmine: The Story Of Children In Welsh Mines. Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press. 2014.
|
|
| Rural Life
|
1905-2000
|
Evans, Hywel Gwyn. Twenty 20 Memories. Carmarthenshire, Wales: Carmarthenshire County Council Libraries and Community Learning Section. 2006.
|
|
| Iron Workers
|
1700s-1900
|
Hayman, Richard. Working Iron in Merthyr Tydfil. Merthyr Tydfil: Merthyr Tydfil Heritage Trust. 1989.
|
Merthyr Tydfil
|
| Housing
|
1775-1875
|
Lowe, Jeremy Burman. Welsh industrial workers housing, 1775-1875. Cardiff: National Museum of Wales. 1985.
|
Wales
|
| Rural Life
|
1879-1883
|
Griffiths, Elizabeth Mary, Arthur Edward Griffiths, Richard Price Griffiths, David Leitch, and Sheila Leitch. A Radnorshire farm diary, 1879-1883. Glasbury, Wales: David and Sheila Leitch. 1999.
|
Radnorshire
|
| Town Life
|
1935-
|
Ahearne, Brian. My greenhill far away: a Swansea boyhood. Swansea: Hafod History Society. 2002
|
Swansea, Glamorgan
|
| Rural Life
|
1959
|
Emmett, Isabel. A North Wales village: a social anthropological study. London: Routledge & Paul. 1964.
|
Llanfrothen, Merioneth
|
|
|
1776-2005
|
Roberts, Margaret. Through thick and thin: memories of Llanfairfechan, North Wales : 1776-2005. [Place of publication not identified]: HenBlas Publishing. 2006.
|
Llanfairfechan
|
| Rural Life
|
1775-1875
|
Lowe, Jeremy B. Welsh country workers housing 1775-1875. Cardiff: National Museum of Wales. 1985.
|
Wales
|
| Mining
|
1900-1930
|
Evans, George Ewart. "Miners and Mining." In From the Mouths of Men. London: Faber and Faber. 1976.
|
|
| Mining
|
1840's
|
Great Britain (British Parliamentary Papers). Children's Employment Commission: first report of the Commissioners, mines. Irish University Press. 1968.
|
England, Scotland, Wales
|
| Town Life
|
1880-1890
|
Loxton, William. The Swansea I remember: the town in the 1880s and 90s. Swansea: Sou'wester Books.1990.
|
Swansea, Glamorgan
|
| Childhood
|
1895-1939
|
Grenfell-Hill, Jeffrey. Growing up in Wales - Collected Memories of Childhood in Wales 1895-1939. Llandysul, Ceredigion, Wales: Gomer Press. 1996. (178 pages)
|
Abertillery, Cardiff, Glanaman, Llanelli, Rhondda, Swansea, Tonypandy
|
| Photos
|
1919-2006
|
Britian from Above. Aerial photography.
|
England, Scotland, Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Lloyd, D. M. and E. M. book of Wales. London, England : Collins Clear-Type Press, 1969 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Jones, Ieuan Gwynedd. : essays in the social history of Victorian Wales. Dyfed, Wales : Gomer Press, 1987 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Harris, Mary Corbett. customs and legends of Wales. Newton Abbot, England : David & Charles, 1980 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
notes. Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1970 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
1500-1700 |
Heal, Felicity; and Holmes, Clive. Gentry in England and Wales, 1500-1700. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 1994 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Wiliam, Eurwyn. historical farm buildings of Wales. Edinburgh, Scotland : John Donald, 1986 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Jenkins, J. Geraint. and tradition in rural Wales. London, England : J.M. Dent, 1976 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Dodd, A. H. in Wales. London, England : B.T. Batsford, 1972 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
1660-1730 |
Jenkins, Geraint H.. religion and society in Wales, 1660-1730. Cardiff, Wales : University of Wales Press, 1978 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Evans, Len. lore of the love spoon. Cardiff, Wales : John Jones, 1978 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Morris, Jan. matter of Wales : epic views of a small. country Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 1984 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
1700-1950 |
Snell, K.D.M. and belonging : community, identity and welfare in England and Wales 1700-1950. New York, New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Rees, Gareth; Rees, Teresa. and social inequality in Wales. London, England : Croom Helm, 1980 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Williams, Glanmor. language, and nationality in Wales : historical essays. Cardiff, Wales : University of Wales Press, 1979 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
testunau Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Frenhinol Cymru : Aberystwyth, Awst 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 a 9, 1952 = List of subjects of the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales : Aberystwyth, August 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9, 1952. Aberystwyth, Wales : Bwyllgor Gwaith Eisteddfod Genedlaethol, 1952 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Dodd, A.H. short history of Wales : Welsh life and customs from prehistoric times to the present day. London, England : B.T. Batsford, 1972 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Williams, Glyn. and cultural change in contemporary Wales. Boston, Massachusetts : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Finnemore, John. life in Wales. London, England : A. & C. Black, 1922 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Jenkins, J. Austin. Wales and Monmouthshire at the opening of the Twentieth Century. Teaneck, New Jersey : Chadwyck-Healey, 1984 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Seebohm, Frederic. tribal system in Wales : being part of an inquiry into the structure and methods of tribal society. Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Davies, R.R. society and nationhood : historical essays presented to Glanmor Williams. Cardiff, Wales : University of Wales Press, 1984 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
18th and 19th century |
Etheridge, Ken. costume : in the 18th & 19th century. Swansea, Wales : C. Davies, 1977 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Parry-Jones, D. country characters. London, England : B.T. Batsford, 1952 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
1775-1875 |
Lowe, Jeremy. country workers housing, 1775-1875. Cardiff, Wales : National Museum of Wales, 1985 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Stevens, Catrin. courting customs. Llandysul, Wales : Gomer, 1993 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Roberts, R. Alun. home-spun : studies of rural Wales. Newtown, Montana : Welsh Outlook Press, 1930 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Lloyd, J.E. tribal law and custom : a review. London, England : Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1927 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
18rh century |
Howell, David W. Rural poor in eighteenth-century Wales. Cardiff, Wales : University of Wales Press, 2000 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Rawlins, Bert J. religious, and social change in industrial Wales. [Salt Lake City, Utah] : Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1980 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Hey, David. our ancestors lived : a history of life a hundred years ago. Kew, England : National Archives (England), 2002 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Cowie, L.W. dictionary of British social history. London, England : Bell, 1973 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Baker-Jones, Leslie. privilege and power : the Tivyside gentry in their community. Llandysul, Wales : Gomer Press, 1999 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
1536-1640 |
Jones, J. Gwynfor. Welsh gentry 1536-1640 : images of status, honour and authority. Cardiff, Wales : University of Wales Press, 1998 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
medieval village. Penarth, Wales : Glamorgan Gwent Archaeological Trust, 198? |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Carr, A. D. gentry of North Wales in the later Middle Ages. Cardiff, Wales : University of Wales Press, 2017 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Owen, Trefor M. The Customs and Traditions of Wales: With an Introduction by Emma Lile. British Library CiP Data, 2016 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Moore-Colyer, R J. A Pocket Guide: the Customs and Traditions of Wales. Welsh History Review, 1992 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Vaughan, Herbert M. The South Wales squires : a Welsh picture of social life. Carmarthen, Dyfed : Golden Grove, 1988 |
Wales
|
| Customs and traditions |
|
Owen, Trefor M. Customs and traditions of wales. University Of Wales Press, 2016 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Howells, William. Cambrian superstitions, comprising ghosts, omens, witchcraft, traditions, & c : To which are added a concise view of the manners and customs of the principality, and some fugitive pieces. Cambridge : Chadwyck-Healey Ltd., 1993 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Roberts, Peter. The Cambrian popular antiquities of Wales. Mold, Clwyd : Clwyd County Council Library & Information Service, 1994 |
Wales
|
| Social life and customs |
|
Jenkins, J Geraint. Life & tradition in rural Wales. Stroud : Amberley, 2009 |
Wales
|
| Church life and social life |
|
Brown, John. The autobiography of an Alms Bag : or, Sketches of church life and social life in a watering place. London : J. Hodges, 1885 |
Wales
|
| Costume and customs |
|
Welsh costume and customs. [Aberystwyth], 1958 |
Wales
|
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