Welsh Journals

K. Ll. Gruffydd takes a broad look at ships and sailors of the Dee between 1277 and 1737, in Maritime Wales, VIII, 29-49. R. C. B. Oliver presents the second part of his investigation of Capt. Frederick Jones's diary (1800-4), in Trans. Radnorshire Soc., LIV, 41-57. Religious revivalism and Welsh industrial society in Aberdare in 1839 is the theme investigated by C. B. Turner, in Llafur, IV, 4-13. J. Thomas studies elements of tradition and conservatism in the building of St. David's College, Lampeter, in Ceredigion, X, 57-81; and D. W. T. Price looks at the contribution of the college to the church in Wales, in Journal of Welsh Ecclesiastical Hist., I, 63-83. The railway community at Builth Road stimulates J. A. Stratton, in Trans. Radnorshire Soc., LIV, 67-79. The connection between Pwllheli grammar school and the school at Botwnnog is the theme chosen by D. G. LI. Hughes, in Caernarfonshire Hist. Soc. Trans., XLV, 37-42 (in Welsh). The links between Ellis Owen, Cefnymeusydd, and three nineteenth-century Eifionydd societies are investigated by D. Williams, ibid., pp. 49-78 (in Welsh). J.I. Davies continues his study of Montgomeryshire parks between 1789 and 1960 by looking at those of Llanfair Caereinion, in Montgomeryshire Collections, LXXII. 37-44. Hugh Jarman, a Montgomeryshire artist from Llanidloes, is the subject of a study beautifully illustrated by E. R. Morris, ibid., pp. 45-52. Aspects of the life and work of the Mills family of Llanidloes are reviewed by H. Williams, in Trans. Honourable Soc. of Cymmrodorion, 1984, pp. 95-113. The people's health in mid-Victorian Wales is the subject chosen by I. G. Jones, ibid., pp. 115-47. K. O. Morgan looks critically at the life and political career of Stuart Rendel, M.P. for Montgomeryshire between 1880 and 1894, ibid., pp. 149-71. William Owen Stanley of Penrhos estate near Holyhead, M.P. for Beamaris and antiquary, is focussed upon by C. Smith, in Arch. Camb., CXXXIII, pp. 83-90. The contribution of the Davies family of Llandinam to religious life is assessed by D. B. Rees, in Journal of the Hist. Soc. of the Presbyterian Church of Wales, VIII, 3-23. The background of Ann Parry, an eighteenth-century Methodist follower of some reputation in the Vale of Clwyd, is examined by D. Ll. Morgan, in Y Traethodydd, CXXXIX, 19-25 (in Welsh). The Carmarthenshire butter trade is a subject which draws the attention of C. Williams, in The Carmarthenshire Antiquary, XX, 69-76. N. Gibbard looks again at the Tumble strike of 1893, ibid., pp. 77-85. The career of Thomas Jeffery Llewellyn Prichard, travelling actor and author, is assessed by S. Adams, in Brycheiniog, XXI, 52-63. Anglesey shops and shopkeepers fascinate J. B. Collwell in his study of their development, in Anglesey Antiquarian Soc. and Field Club Trans., 1984, pp. 35-73.