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- Life in 1900s UK - includes photos and descriptions of places/items, etc. in 1900s UK
| Topic | Time frame | Resource | Locations Covered |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880-1920 | Williams, James. Give Me Yesterday. Llandysul, Wales: Gomer Press, 1971. | South West Wales | |
| 1790-1803 | 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 | |
| Smugglers | 1600-1900 | Elias, Twm, and Dafydd Meirion. Smugglers of Wales. Llanrwst, Wales: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2017. | Wales |
| Parish Life | 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 |
