Welsh Journals

their families, who quite quickly became assimilated into the local Welsh culture, producing in time several significant writers and poets. In addition, there was short-distance migration which resulted in a squatting population on the mountain, at least before the local estates enforced their interests. The mining community was by no means a passive one and was involved in protests and strikes over wages and conditions. There was also, no doubt, a resistance to the suffocating presence of the paternalistic Grosvenor estate. It was an estate and family which could have its own way in most things, as was epitomized most starkly in its ability in the 1820s to entirely dismantle and relocate Halkyn Village-out of sight of the family's newly-built seat at Halkyn Castle. Fascinating though this account often is, it is not without its limitations. It tends to become an inventory of facts and features and prone to narrative and description in the latter stages, and it also lacks an index. On the other hand, the author's extensive researches in local and national archives have enabled him to reproduce several interesting documents and summarize many others. As such, the book is a valuable source-book and as a work of local history it is of a very acceptable standard. W. P. GRIFFITH Bangor CRIME, PROTEST AND POLICE IN MODERN BRITISH SOCIETY: ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF DAVID J. V. JONES. Edited by David W. Howell and Kenneth O. Morgan. University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1999. Pp. x, 248. £ 35.00. This strong collection of essays is a very fitting memorial to David Jones, who died aged 53 in October 1994. A very bright star in the British social history galaxy, his early death was a major loss not only to Welsh but also to historical scholarship more generally. A thoughtful and genial man, apparently fitter and years younger looking than his age, his death shocked and saddened those who knew him. These essays reflect the range of David Jones's work which centred on Welsh social history and British popular protest and crime. They are pre- faced by a substantial tribute to the quality of his work on Chartism and popular movements by Dorothy Thompson. The essays range from detailed, specific studies such as that by Hugh Dunthorne on 'Beccaria and Britain', Beccaria being the author of an essay On Crimes and Punishment in 1764, to broad surveys of crime and of Welsh historical writing. David Howell a close friend and colleague of David Jones, provides a detailed, well-researched study, 'Riots and Public Disorder in Eighteenth- century Wales'. His essay examines riots over such matters as food, enclosures,