Welsh Journals

I. G. Jones gives a full analysis of Merioneth politics at a critical stage in the mid-nineteenth century, in Journal Merioneth Hist. and Record Soc., V, no. 4, 273-334; and D. G. Lloyd Hughes traces the efforts of David Williams, Castell Deudraeth, in the Merioneth elections of 1859, 1865 and 1868, ibid., V, no. 4, 335-51, while he gives a complete biography of the same David Williams (1799-1869) in Caernarvonshire Hist. Soc. Trans., XXIX, 25-72. Edward Anwyl (1866-1914), the Celtic scholar, is the subject of B. F. Roberts, in Trans. Honourable Soc. of Cymmrodorion, part 2, pp. 211-64 (in Welsh). Clifford Tucker surveys the representation of the Monmouth constituency around 1867, in Presenting Monmouthshire, II, no. 5, 39-46. D. Jacob Davies shows the contribution of Gwilym Marles to the fight for freedom of speech in 1868 in a supplement (35 pp.), entitled 'Y Fflam Fyw', to Yr Ymofynnydd, LXIX (in Welsh). Anglican and Dissenting relations are vividly displayed by the quarrel of T. C. Edwards and H. T. Edwards in 1869, described by R. Buick Knox, in Trans. Calvinistic Methodist Hist. Soc., LIII, 8-19. W. S. G. Thomas traces attempts to bring railways to south-western Carmarthenshire in the latter half of the nineteenth century, in The Carmarthen Antiquary, V (1964-69), 6-12. J. G. Jenkins examines the fate of rural industries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in two articles, one on Anglesey, in Anglesey Antiquarian Soc. and Field Club Trans., 1967, pp. 41-65, and on Cardiganshire, in Ceredigion, VI, no. 1, 90-127. A valuable picture of Welsh journalism and the beginnings of agrarian trade unionism at the end of the nineteenth century is painted by R. M. Thomas and Cyril Parry in their account of the life of J. O. Jones ('Ap Ffarmwr'), in Anglesey Antiquarian Soc. and Field Club Trans., 1967. pp. 72-108 (in Welsh). Peris Jones-Evans touches upon temperance, land reform, and other radical movements at the end of the nineteenth century in a study of E. Pan Jones, ante, IV, no. 2, 143-60. The part of John Morley in the Liberal crisis in 1894 and his relationship with Stuart Rendel are discussed by Kenneth O. Morgan, in The National Library of Wales Journal, XV, part 4, 451-65. J. L. Adams continues his account of the operation of the poor law in the Bedwellty Union at the end of the nineteenth century, in Presenting Monmouthshire, II, no. 5, 8-19, and in the 1920s, ibid., II, no. 6, 11-16. The quarries of Dyffryn Nantlle from the mid-nineteenth to the mid- twentieth century are the subject of Gwynfryn Richards's analysis, in Caernarvonshire Hist. Soc. Trans., XXIX, 5-24 (in Welsh).