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Waging War And Building Peace - Mobilising Industry In Wales, 1934-1947

by Leon Gooberman

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 The British economy altered radically between 1934 and 1947. Some of the most dramatic changes were in Wales as its struggling private-sector-led economy was supplanted by one dominated by the state. Initial changes were barely noticeable as pre-war rearmament had little impact on its economy and labour market yet wartime demands for munitions and raw materials prompted the state to govern an all-encompassing mobilisation that upended its relations with business and eliminated unemployment. New factories employed many thousands of people, agriculture was modernised and metal manufacturing thrived, although coal mining remained mired in crisis. As the war ended, lessons learnt during the conflict helped guide the government as it reconverted the economy to peacetime while retaining a dominant role. This book is the first to fully set out and explore these linkages in Wales between government planning, workplaces and their employees.
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The Lordship Of Denbigh 1282-1543

by D. Huw Owen

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 The lordship of Denbigh, held by prominent English barons following its creation in 1282, was directly affected by several major events culminating in its incorporation in Denbighshire, newly-formed by the Union legislation of 1536-43.The social policy adopted by the central administration, based at Denbigh castle, featured a colony comprising English settlers who inhabited five English settlement centres surrounded by localities containing displaced Welsh tenants. Members of kindred groupings succeeded in evading traditional restrictions, with detailed information presented in several rentals on the acquisition and disposal of lands by male and female members of both Welsh and settler families. Despite the earlier extensive English settlement, the area has been considered to have contributed immensely to the Welsh literary heritage.
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The Lordship Of Denbigh 1282-1543

by D. Huw Owen

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 The lordship of Denbigh, held by prominent English barons following its creation in 1282, was directly affected by several major events culminating in its incorporation in Denbighshire, newly-formed by the Union legislation of 1536-43. The social policy adopted by the central administration, based at Denbigh castle, featured a colony comprising English settlers who inhabited five English settlement centres surrounded by localities containing displaced Welsh tenants. Members of kindred groupings succeeded in evading traditional restrictions, with detailed information presented in several rentals on the acquisition and disposal of lands by male and female members of both Welsh and settler families. Despite the earlier extensive English settlement, the area has been considered to have contributed immensely to the Welsh literary heritage.
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Gentility In Early Modern Wales - The Salesbury Family, 1450-1720

by Sadie Jarrett

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 Winner of the 2024 Francis Jones Prize for Welsh History. Early modern Wales was a place of opportunity for the gentry. The Acts of Union with England granted them powers to govern their local communities, the Reformation enabled them to add former monastic lands to their estates, and burgeoning global expansion encouraged them to seek fortunes abroad. Early modern Wales was also a place in transition. The gentry navigated a complex relationship with their English neighbours and found themselves cultivating a new identity as Cambro-Britons. This book is an exciting new study of how one Welsh gentry family, the Salesburys of Rhug and Bachymbyd, negotiated the changing expectations of gentility in early modern Wales. From this in-depth analysis, the book finds that the Welsh gentry were status-conscious and opportunistic, but Welshness remained fundamental to their sense of self. This is further enhanced by considering the early modern Welsh gentry within a wider global context for the first time. This book is freely available on a Creative Commons licence thanks to the kind sponsorship of the libraries participating in the Jisc Open Access Community Framework OpenUP initiative.
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Gentility In Early Modern Wales - The Salesbury Family, 1450-1720

by Sadie Jarrett

~~33,11€~~ 29,80€ 10% OFF

 Winner of the 2024 Francis Jones Prize for Welsh History. Early modern Wales was a place of opportunity for the gentry. The Acts of Union with England granted them powers to govern their local communities, the Reformation enabled them to add former monastic lands to their estates, and burgeoning global expansion encouraged them to seek fortunes abroad. Early modern Wales was also a place in transition. The gentry navigated a complex relationship with their English neighbours and found themselves cultivating a new identity as Cambro-Britons. This book is an exciting new study of how one Welsh gentry family, the Salesburys of Rhug and Bachymbyd, negotiated the changing expectations of gentility in early modern Wales. From this in-depth analysis, the book finds that the Welsh gentry were status-conscious and opportunistic, but Welshness remained fundamental to their sense of self. This is further enhanced by considering the early modern Welsh gentry within a wider global context for the first time. This book is freely available on a Creative Commons licence thanks to the kind sponsorship of the libraries participating in the Jisc Open Access Community Framework OpenUP initiative.
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The Conservative Party In Wales, 1945-1997

by Sam Blaxland

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 Wales is often considered to be one of the most anti-Conservative parts of Britain, with the party unable to connect with voters. The Conservative Party in Wales, 1945-1997 offers a more nuanced perspective as the first book-length study of Wales’s second political party in the decades after the Second World War. From the places where Conservatism was often successful, the book questions why it failed to find any purchase in other parts of Wales, discussing how the party communicated its policies, who its candidates were, and how the party deliberately crafted specific policies ‘for the nation’ - from introducing the first Minister for Welsh Affairs to making Welsh a compulsory subject in schools. Adopting an holistic approach to the party, the book scrutinises activists and prominent Tories at the grassroots, asking what they reveal about understudied aspects of Welsh history, particularly the lives of the Anglicised and socially conservative middle class.
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The Conservative Party In Wales, 1945-1997

by Sam Blaxland

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 Wales is often considered to be one of the most anti-Conservative parts of Britain, with the party unable to connect with voters. The Conservative Party in Wales, 1945-1997 offers a more nuanced perspective as the first book-length study of Wales’s second political party in the decades after the Second World War. From the places where Conservatism was often successful, the book questions why it failed to find any purchase in other parts of Wales, discussing how the party communicated its policies, who its candidates were, and how the party deliberately crafted specific policies ‘for the nation’ - from introducing the first Minister for Welsh Affairs to making Welsh a compulsory subject in schools. Adopting an holistic approach to the party, the book scrutinises activists and prominent Tories at the grassroots, asking what they reveal about understudied aspects of Welsh history, particularly the lives of the Anglicised and socially conservative middle class.
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Labour'S Crisis - Plaid Cymru, The Conservatives, And The Decline Of The Labour Party In North-West Wales, 1960-74

by Andrew Edwards

25,16€ + 10% CARD

 Many books have focused on the rise of, and success of, the Labour party in Wales, but this one focuses on its decline in an understudied part of Wales.
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The Opposition To The Great War In Wales 1914-1918

by Aled Eirug

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 This is the first book to describe and analyse the anti-war movement in Wales, and provides an insight into the two main strands of opposition to the war on religious and political grounds. This work details the breadth of anti-war activity and, for the first time, reveals and analyses the 900 conscientious objectors identified in Wales.
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The Women'S Suffrage Movement In Wales, 1866-1928

by Ryland Wallace

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 This book presents a comprehensive investigation of the movement in Wales, which participated in the agitation throughout the whole of the period.
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The Communist Party Of Great Britain And The National Question In Wales, 1920-1991

by Douglas Jones

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 The first in-depth study of the Communist Party's attitude to devolution in Wales, examined within the context of the rapid changes in twentieth century Welsh society, debates on devolution and identity on the British left, the role of nationalism within the communist movement, and the interplay of international and domestic factors.
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The South Wales Miners - 1964-1985

by Ben Curtis

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 A political history of the south Wales miners, their industry and society, in a tumultuous period of crisis and struggle.
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Building Jerusalem - Nonconformity, Labour And The Social Question In Wales, 1906-1939

by Robert Pope

10,80€ + 10% CARD

 This book discusses how Welsh Nonconformists responded to the challenges of the labour movement in early twentieth-century Wales.
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Exodus From Cardiganshire - Rural-Urban Migration In Victorian Britain

by Kathryn J Cooper

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 Was migration from Victorian Cardiganshire simply a flight from rural poverty? This book relates the rate and timing of the outward movements from the county to the prevailing social and economic conditions.
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Urban Assimilation In Post-Conquest Wales - Ethnicity, Gender And Economy In Ruthin, 1282-1350

by Matthew Frank Stevens

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 This book uses, principally but not only, 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. It carefully constructs an image of the way in which townspeople's everyday lives were influenced by their ethnic background, gender, wealth and social status. In this manner it explores and explains the motivations of English and welsh townspeople to work together in the mutual pursuit of prosperity and social stability.
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A Forgotten Army - The Female Munitions Workers Of South Wales, 1939-1945

by Mari A. Williams

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 "A Forgotten Army" reconstructs the experiences of Welsh women who undertook essential munitions work during World War II. The events of wartime are placed against the background of the wider Welsh social, economic and cultural context.
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Unemployment, Poverty And Health In Interwar South Wales

by Steve Thompson

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 Examines the human costs of unemployment and poverty through a study of the health of the population of south Wales. This book contributes to the 'healthy or hungry thirties' debate about the effects of unemployment and poverty on health in interwar Britain through an examination of south Wales.
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Cardiganshire And The Cardi, C.1760-C.2000 - Locating A Place And Its People

by Mike Benbough-Jackson

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 Explores the ways in which the distinctive Welsh county of Cardigan and its inhabitants (known as Cardis) have been represented during the late modern era.
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Urban Assimilation In Post-Conquest Wales - Ethnicity, Gender And Economy In Ruthin, 1282-1348

by Matthew Frank Stevens

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 Uses 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.
Emlyn Hooson And The Welsh Liberal Party, 1962-1979

by Nicholas K. Alderton

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Waging War And Building Peace - Mobilising Industry In Wales, 1934-1947

by Leon Gooberman

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The Lordship Of Denbigh 1282-1543

by D. Huw Owen

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The Conservative Party In Wales, 1945-1997

by Sam Blaxland

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Wales And War - Society, Politics And Religion In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

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