Welsh Journals

The career and achievements of Sir Isambard Owen, the scholar- physician, are assessed by D. G. James, in Trans. Honourable Soc. of Cymmrodorion, 1976, pp. 67-81. The degree of cultural change in the south Wales coalfield before 1914, as revealed by statistics relating to the Baptist denomination, is investi- gated by P. N. Jones, in Journal of Historical Geography, II, 347-60. E. W. Rowlands makes a comprehensive evaluation of the general election of 1918 in Anglesey, in Anglesey Antiquarian Soc. and Field Club Trans., 1976-77, pp. 57-81 (in Welsh). E. Price examines the importance of Yr Udgorn in Lloyd George's early political career, in Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Soc., XI, no. 3-4, 207-15 (in Welsh). The contribution of Clement Davies to the fall of Neville Chamberlain and the emergence of Winston Churchill as prime minister in 1939-40 is the theme chosen by D. M. Roberts, ante, VIII, no. 2, 188-215. D. Smith analyses myth and meaning in the literature of the South Wales coalfield in the 1930s, in The Anglo- Welsh Review, XXV, no. 56, 21-42. The evolution of cultural and linguistic areas, with particular reference to north-east Wales, is examined in some detail by W. T. R. Pryce, in Trans. Institute of British Geographers, LXV, 79-107. A number of short but stimulating contributions by E. Roberts, D. Wigley and T. Davies on the development of the Caernarvonshire Quarries appear in ibid., pp. 1-22. T. M. Phillips considers aspects of the development of the Abertillery Urban District to 1958, in Gwent Local History, XLI, 18-31. R. L. Gant contributes further data on the employment and migration of Severn Tunnel construction workers, ibid., pp. 31-37. Some reasons are briefly considered for the decline of nonconformity in the Welsh valleys by D. B. Rees, in Planet, XXXII, 12-17, The history of Gwasg Gomer, and in particular of its founder, J. D. Lewis, is dealt with by J. T. Jones, in Ceredigion, VIII, 26-49 (in Welsh). Cwmgwili and its families provide an interesting theme for F. Jones, in The Carmarthenshire Historian, XIII, 23-66. A study of the involvement of south Wales miners in the Ruskin College strike of 1909 is undertaken by R. Lewis, in Llafur, II, no. 1, 57-72. E. Scourfield recounts the days when eisteddfodau in the Carmarthen district were very popular, in Trans. Honourable Soc. of Cymmrodorion, 1976, pp. 216-44 (in Welsh). J. GWYNFOR JONES Cardiff