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Cymru A'r Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf
Teitl yn y gyfres o gyfrolau byr a chyflym Stori Sydyn. Dyma hanes rhai o'r Cymry yn ystod y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf gan ddilyn hynt y rhyfel yn gronolegol.
Wyn Mel
Wynne Melville Jones gafodd y syniad o greu Mr Urdd, ac mae'r gyfrol hunangofiannol hon yn dilyn hanes bywyd a gyrfa'r entrepreneur o ardal Tregaron. Mae cenedlaethau o blant wedi eu magu yng nghwmni Mr Urdd ac mae'n dal i fod yr un mor boblogaidd ag erioed. Cyhoeddir y gyfrol ar drothwy Eisteddfod yr Urdd Ceredigion, 2010.
A History of Modern Wales 1536-1990
Rich in detail but vigorous, authoritative and unsentimental, A History of Modern Wales is a comprehensive and unromanticised examination of Wales as it was and is. It stresses both the long-term continuities in Welsh history, and also the significant regional differences within the principality.
Studia Celtica
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The Welsh in Iowa
The Welsh in Iowa is the history of the little known Welsh immigrant communities in the American Midwestern state of Iowa. Dr. Walley’s book identifies what made the Welsh unique as immigrants to North America, and as migrants and settlers in a land built on such groups. With research rooted in documentary evidence and supplemented with community and oral histories, The Welsh in Iowa preserves and examines Welsh culture as it was expressed in middle America by the farmers and coal miners who settled or passed through the prairie state as it grew to maturity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work seeks to not only document the Welsh immigrants who lived in Iowa, but to study the Welsh as a distinct ethnic group in a state known for its ethnic heritage.
People, Places and Passions
It takes a different view of the history of Wales, examining a panorama of different emotions and experiences – laughter, happiness, fear, anger, adventure, lust, loneliness, anxiety – to give an entertaining and exciting new history to Wales. a wide range of sources are used to present the ambitions and anxieties which drove and destroyed Welsh people The book’s literary style and the fact that it follows earlier successful studies by the author should ensure an audience.
The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature
This book is a comprehensive single-volume history of literature in the two major languages of Wales from post-Roman to post-devolution Britain.
The Foundations of Modern Freemasonry
Following the appointment of its first aristocratic Grand Masters in the 1720s and in the wake of its connections to the scientific Enlightenment, 'Free and Accepted' Masonry became part of Britain's national profile and the largest and most influential of Britain's extensive clubs and societies. The organisation did not evolve naturally from the mediaeval guilds and religious orders that pre-dated it but was reconfigured radically by a largely self-appointed inner core at London's most influential lodge, the Horn Tavern. Freemasonry became a vehicle for the expression of their philosophical and political views, and the 'Craft' attracted an aspirational membership across the upper middling a...
Black Skin, Blue Books
This is a ground breaking comparative study of the fascinating connections between African Americans and the Welsh, beginning in the era of slavery and concluding with the experiences of African American GIs in wartime Wales.
