When William the Conqueror died in 1087 he left the throne of England to William Rufus … his second son. The result was an immediate war as Rufus’s elder brother Robert fought to gain the crown...
Criminals, drifters, beggars, the homeless, immigrants, prostitutes, tramping artisans, street entertainers, abandoned children, navvies, and families fallen on hard times a whole underclass of people...
The story of wool covers 4,000 years of human history – the first written record of dying wool for cloth was found on a Mesopotamian papyrus c. 2000 BCE. In this book, the whole story is told, from...
Before 1990 no-one knew that over a thousand Welsh legal documents were filed at the Welsh National Library. These probate documents comprise wills, estate lists, letters and other documents which reveal effective and diverse use of the Welsh language. In this book we can listen to the last words and wishes of Welsh men and women from 1560...
A study of the background and contribution of Twm Carnabwth, one of the leaders of the Becca movement in west Wales in the mid-19th century. The events of the time are placed in their social context and no study has dealt with Becca's campaigners in such detail until now. 37 photographs.
Having become one of Canada’s first police detectives in 1882, Nicholas Power developed a reputation as the nation’s very own super sleuth, hailed in the newspapers as a homegrown 'Sherlock Holmes'.He...
Over a thousand years ago the Chinese discovered that the slender filaments that formed the cocoon of the silk moth, could be woven into beautiful shimmering fabrics.
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