Welsh Journals

A new revised edition, which takes the story down to 1993, has been published of Gareth Elwyn Jones's excellent survey, Modern Wales (Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. xiii, 381, £ 45.00 hardback and £ 14.95 paperback). It was originally published in 1984 and was reviewed ante, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 113-14. David Berry, Wales and Cinema: The First Hundred Years (University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1994, pp. xii, 567, £ 45.00) is a fascinating, well-illustrated and fully-docu- mented compendium of information (though not really a history) which covers the development of film-making in Wales, the impact of Wales on the British cinema and its place in Welsh industrial society from the 1890s to the present day. It also includes a valuable 'filmography' of major Welsh actors, actresses and directors. One intriguing and hitherto unknown nugget is an account of a full-length film biography of Lloyd George made while he was wartime premier in 1918, but never shown because of alle- gations by Horatio Bottomley that the film-makers were of German origin. The film material was discovered in 1994 in the Wales Film and Television Archive at Aberyst- wyth. Also received: Colin Jones, The Cambridge Illustrated History of France (Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 352, £ 24.95) Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society, XLII, parts I-IV (1994) The National Library of Wales Journal, XXVIII, 4 (Winter 1994)