Welsh Journals

The economic, social and ideological causes of the industrial unrest that swept central and western Europe between the outbreak of the 1917 Russian Revolution and 1920 are well explored in Challenges of Labour: Central and Western Europe, 1917-1920, edited by Chris Wrigley (Routledge, 1993, pp. x, 300, £ 40.00). There are specialist chapters on Germany, Hungary, Austria, Italy, France and Great Britain. The editor himself contributes an interesting chapter on the challenge of labour in Britain, 1917 20, and the response by the Lloyd George coalition government. However, there appears not to be full awareness of recent work on post-war government strike- breaking strategy, while the decision to end the account in 1920, before Black Friday and the 1921 national miners' strike, leaves a sense of incompleteness. Mary Davies Parnell, Snobs and Sardines: Rhondda Schooldays (Seren Books, Bridgend, 1993, pp. 220, £ 9.95) is a lively and readable account of life at Porth County School for Girls in the later 1940s. It supplements the author's earlier account of a Rhondda childhood, Block Salt and Candles. The important journal, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies, has been renamed Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, with effect from issue no. 26 (Winter 1993), following the move of its editor, Professor Patrick Sims-Williams, to the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. It is now published from the Department of Welsh, Old College, King Street, Aberystwyth, SY23 2AX. The major article in this issue is by the editor, 'The Provenance of the Llywarch Hen Poems: a case for Llangors, Brycheiniog', which complements his contribution to the June 1994 issue of the WELSH HISTORY REVIEW. K.O.M. Also received: The National Library of Wales Journal, XXVIII, 2, 3 (Winter 1993, Summer 1994) Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society, XLI, parts II-IV (April -October 1993)