Merthyr, the Crucible of Modern Wales
Merthyr, the Crucible of Modern Wales

Author: Joe England

Publisher: Parthian

Published: 2020-11

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9781913640057

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For most of the nineteenth century Merthyr Tydfil was the largest urban settlement Wales had ever seen. Merthyr, The Crucible of Modern Wales, looks at Merthyr's rise to prominence and how it foretold the economic and social transformation of Welsh history. It was Merthyr, from the armed rising of 1831 to the electoral radicalism of 1868 and 1900, which led the way towards democracy and civic betterment in the teeth of material degradation and high-handed repression. This volume brings the whole epic history of Merthyr, from 1760 to 1912, into the focus of a fresh and utterly convincing perspective. For Modern Wales, see Merthyr, in a book which is a triumph of readability and intellectual passion.

Intelligent Town
Intelligent Town

Author: Louise Miskell

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2019-09-15

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1786835568

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This is the first full-length study of Swansea’s urban development from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. It tells the little known story of how Swansea gained an unrivalled position of influence as an urban centre, which led it briefly to claim to be the ‘metropolis of Wales’, and how it then lost this status in the face of rapid urban development elsewhere in Wales. As such it provides an important new perspective on Welsh urban history in which the role of Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil and even Bristol are better known as towns of influence in Welsh urban life. It also offers an analysis of how Swansea’s experience of urbanisation fits into the wider picture of British urban history.

The Fire People
The Fire People

Author: Alexander Cordell

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 2014-08-07

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 147360351X

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Set in the ironmaking town of Merthyr Tydfil, The Fire People is the story of Dic Penderyn who in 1831 became the first Welsh Martyr of the working class. Hanged for a crime that he did not commit, his story is told in this powerful novel which describes the events which took place during the famous Merthyr Tydfil riots of 1831.

The History of Merthyr Tydfil (1908)
The History of Merthyr Tydfil (1908)

Author: Charles Wilkins

Publisher:

Published: 2009-05

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13: 9781104588380

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Hughesovka
Hughesovka

Author: Susan Edwards

Publisher: Glamorgan Record Office Publications

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13:

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Calvinists Incorporated
Calvinists Incorporated

Author: Anne Kelly Knowles

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1997-02

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 0226448533

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Bringing immigrants onstage as central players in the drama of rural capitalist transformation, Anne Kelly Knowles traces a community of Welsh immigrants to Jackson and Gallia counties in southern Ohio. After reconstructing the gradual process of community-building, Knowles focuses on the pivotal moment when the immigrants became involved with the industrialization of their new region as workers and investors in Welsh-owned charcoal iron companies. Setting the southern Ohio Welsh in the context of Welsh immigration as a whole from 1795 to 1850, Knowles explores how these strict Calvinists responded to the moral dilemmas posed by leaving their native land and experiencing economic success in the United States. Knowles draws on a wide variety of sources, including obituaries and community histories, to reconstruct the personal histories of over 1,700 immigrants. The resulting account will find appreciative readers not only among historical geographers, but also among American economic historians and historians of religion.