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Committee report on the growth of schools and of higher education in Cardiganshire. The author's findings, drawn largely from the evidence presented to the Committee by witnesses from Cardiganshire, ought to be related to his general article in the WELSH HISTORY REVIEW, ante, Vol. 11, No. 2 (December 1982), pp. 150-72. The material on Welsh-language education particularly engages the author's attention. William H. Howells describes the substantial library of Edward Richard, of Ystradmeurig (1714-77), the celebrated schoolmaster-scholar, and its influence upon ecclesiastical and educational developments in rural Cardiganshire. For archaeologists, there is an authoritative article by C. S. Briggs on megalithic and Bronze Age sites in the county, and also an account of the excavations at a Bronze Age cemetery at Llanilar. Also received: Kenneth O. Morgan, Keir Hardie: Radical and Socialist (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984, pp. x, 343, £ 7.50). This is a new paperback version of a book originally published in 1975, and reviewed ante, Vol. 8, No. 1 (June 1976), pp. 117-119. Harris Joshua and Tina Wallace, with the assistance of Heather Booth, To Ride the Storm (Heinemann Education Books, 1983, pp. 221, £ 16.50, paperback £ 6.95). A study of the 1980 racial troubles in Bristol and of the 'state apparatus' for coping with them. Patrick MacGill, Lanty Hanlon (pp. 312, £ 9.00). Published in 1983 by Caliban Books, 25 Nassington Road, London NW 3. Patrick MacGill, Glenmornan (Caliban Books, 1983, pp. 318, £ 9.00). Patrick MacGill, Moleskin Joe (Caliban Books, 1983, pp. 320, £ 9.00). Revue Romaine d'Histoire, Vols. 3-4 (1982) and Vols. 1-4 (1983). Irish Historical Studies, XXIII, No. 92 (November, 1983) The most original article here is by Maryann Valiulis on the 'army mutiny' in 1924 and the decisive assertion of civilian authority by the Cosgrave government in the new Irish Free State.