Welsh Journals

the maritime heritage of some southern Ceredigion villages, especially Aberporth, Tresaith, Llangrannog and Cwmtudu. E. Alwyn Benjamin deals with two aspects of nineteenth-century census returns for the county, the enumeration district of Cwmrheidol, 1861-71 (an active lead-mining area at the time), and the demographic features of Aberystwyth borough as shown in the census of 1841. Howard C. Jones's discussion of the Labour Party in Cardiganshire, from its foundation in 1918 to the general election of 1966, breaks new ground, with much fascinating material drawn from the local press. The crucial role of Cliff Prothero as agent in 1966 is, however, omitted. This issue also includes an important review by Professor Caerwyn Williams of Professor E. G. Bowen's admirable pamphlet on 'The St. David of History' (discussed above by Dr. F. G. Cowley). The emphasis in the National Library of Wales Journal, Vol. XXII, No. 3 (Summer 1982), is strongly literary, with articles by Jenny Rowland and Graham Thomas on additional versions of the Trystan englynion and prose; by Isaac Thomas (in Welsh) on epistles from the Old Testament in Kynniver llith a Ban, a Welsh translation of the epistles and gospels of the 1549 Book of Common Prayer; and by Gruffydd Aled Williams (also in Welsh) on the sixteenth-century Merioneth poet, Edmwnd Prys, and the Ardudwy district. In addition, there is an excellent pioneering discussion by J. Graham Jones on the partial revival of Liberalism in Wales between 1926 and 1929, drawn from a rich array of manuscript and printed source material. This may be read together with the same author's account of the 'new socialism' in Wales, 1926-9, published in the WELSH History Review (ante, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 173-99), as the fullest and best treatment yet of Welsh politics in the 1920s. Another lively issue of Llafur, Volume 3, No. 3 (1982), published in the summer of that year by the Society for the Study of Welsh Labour History, ranges over a variety of important themes with especial reference to employment and unemployment. Gareth Stedman Jones provides a synoptic view of the character of nineteenth-century unemployment, and the diverse political and industrial responses to them. This article is slightly marred by a polemical conclusion on the politics of the 1980s that does not bear closely on what goes before. L. J. Williams and Dot Jones offer a pioneering study of the much-neglected theme of female employment in the nineteenth century, drawing most of their material from census returns. It is much to be hoped that the authors will be able to follow up this important analysis in more detail. Meanwhile, readers can relate their findings to the conclusions of Professor Gwyn A. Williams for the post-1968 period in the present journal. Among other articles, Alan Burge provides an exciting and well-documented account of the riots during the Mold colliers' strikes of 1869. Richard Colyer writes a characteristically lucid and elegant account of conditions of employment