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significance of material relating to Cardiff in works whose titles reflect a wider context and emphasis, as in The Book of South Wales. (84), Peaceful Invasion (107), Shopping Arcades. (252), and Coloured Minorities in Britain. (455). Of particular value are the brief notes which draw attention to the local associations of individuals, such as Jim Driscoll, Hugh Cudlipp. R. T. Jenkins and Howard Spring, who feature in the bibliography. The value of these brief but informative annotations prompts disappointment concerning the absence of similar entries to accompany some entries, such as the intriguing references to E. T. Willows (21), Edward Thomas (Cochfarf) (440) and 'Sils ap Sion' (583). An apparent lack of consistency is also illustrated in the section on 'Religion: Nonconformity', and additional notes, such as those provided for the entry relating to David Jones's history of the Baptists in south Wales (in Welsh) (371) would also have been welcomed for other entries in this section, including Howell Williams's The romance of the Forward Movement (390). In most cases, however, there is no doubt concerning the inclusion of the cited works. The compiler is to be congratulated on producing a valuable reference-work which represents a significant contribution to an enhanced awareness of the secondary literature relating to the history of Cardiff. In view of the quality of this work, one now eagerly awaits the next proposed publication of the Survey of Cardiff, namely a bibliography of the published and unpublished maps of Cardiff. D. HUW OWEN Aberystwyth HISTORY AND COMPUTING II. Edited by Peter Denley, Stefan Fogelvik and Charles Harvey. Manchester University Press, 1989. Pp. 272. £ 29.95. This is the second volume of essays produced on behalf of the Association for History and Computing, which was formed in 1987, and like the first volume (Peter Denley and Deian Hopkin [eds.], History and Computing, 1987), it is the fruit of a conference held at Westfield College, London. The purpose of the conference and of the volume was to reflect the 'state-of-the-art' in the application of computers to history, and the range and quality of the essays are further evidence, if such were needed, of the great strides made in this field in recent years. If the first volume suffered, to some extent, from its sheer catholicity, this is a more restrained and concentrated book. The editors were more selective than their predecessors in their choice of contributors and the result is a book of the same length, some 290 pages, but with half as many essays. The volume is divided between nine sub-topics, ranging from demographic databases to psephology. Quantification, which was often mistakenly confused with computing in the past, is represented by the two most intimidating papers, although Heinrich Best's well known work on German politicians in the late nineteenth century contains some witty observations sandwiched, it must be admitted, by some austere correlation matrices.