Topic |
Time frame |
Resource
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Location
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Rural Life; mining
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1900-1955
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Barnes, David. Black Mountains: The Recollections of a South Wales Miner. Talybont, Ceredigion, Wales: Y Lolfa Cyf. 2002.
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Monmouthshire; Glamorganshire
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Travel Diary
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1854
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Borrow, George. Wild Wales: The People, Language and Scenery. London: Century. 1984. [first published in 1862]
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Wales
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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)
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Rural Life
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1856-1945
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Evans, Gwilym. "On the Farm a Century Ago," The Carmarthenshire Historian (Carmarthen, Wales) VIII, (1971): 69-74.
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Llanarthney; Llanddarog
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Rural Life
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1750-1778
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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.
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Aberystruth, Monmouth
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Policemen
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1905-
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Niall, Ian. The village policeman. Newton Abbot [England]: Country Book Club. 1972.
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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.
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Rural Life
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1880-1930
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Williams, D. J. The old farmhouse. Carmarthen, Dyfed, Wales: Golden Grove. 1987.
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Carmarthenshire
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Mining Village
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1925-1940
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Healy, Kathleen. Growing Up In A Welsh Valley. Illfracombe, England: Arthur H. Stockwell. 1999.
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Women's History
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1830-1939
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John, Angela V. Our Mothers' Land: Chapters In Welsh Women's History 1830-1939. Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press.1991.
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Rural Life
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1856
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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)
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North Wales
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Miners
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1833-1972
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Thompson, Ceri. From The Cradle To The Coalmine: The Story Of Children In Welsh Mines. Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press. 2014.
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Rural Life
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1905-2000
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Evans, Hywel Gwyn. Twenty 20 Memories. Carmarthenshire, Wales: Carmarthenshire County Council Libraries and Community Learning Section. 2006.
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Iron Workers
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1700s-1900
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Hayman, Richard. Working Iron in Merthyr Tydfil. Merthyr Tydfil: Merthyr Tydfil Heritage Trust. 1989.
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Merthyr Tydfil
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Housing
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1775-1875
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Lowe, Jeremy Burman. Welsh industrial workers housing, 1775-1875. Cardiff: National Museum of Wales. 1985.
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Wales
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Rural Life
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1879-1883
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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.
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Radnorshire
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Town Life
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1935-
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Ahearne, Brian. My greenhill far away: a Swansea boyhood. Swansea: Hafod History Society. 2002
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Swansea, Glamorgan
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Rural Life
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1959
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Emmett, Isabel. A North Wales village: a social anthropological study. London: Routledge & Paul. 1964.
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Llanfrothen, Merioneth
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1776-2005
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Roberts, Margaret. Through thick and thin: memories of Llanfairfechan, North Wales : 1776-2005. [Place of publication not identified]: HenBlas Publishing. 2006.
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Llanfairfechan
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Rural Life
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1775-1875
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Lowe, Jeremy B. Welsh country workers housing 1775-1875. Cardiff: National Museum of Wales. 1985.
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Wales
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Miners
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1900-1930
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Evans, George Ewart. "Miners and Mining." In From the Mouths of Men. London: Faber and Faber. 1976.
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Town Life
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1880-1890
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Loxton, William. The Swansea I remember: the town in the 1880s and 90s. Swansea: Sou'wester Books.1990.
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Swansea, Glamorgan
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Childhood
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1895-1939
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Grenfell-Hill, Jeffrey. Growing up in Wales - Collected Memories of Childhood in Wales 1895-1939. Llandysul, Ceredigion, Wales: Gomer Press. 1996. (178 pages)
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Abertillery, Cardiff, Glanaman, Llanelli, Rhondda, Swansea, Tonypandy
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