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:ÌýA unified archives catalogue which allows for searching across hundreds of UK archives repositories.Ìý

:ÌýA map with details on archival repositories in Wales.Ìý

:ÌýSearchable catalogue of archives and manuscripts held by Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÒÅÆ×ÊÁÏ.Ìý

:ÌýA unified archives catalogue which allows for searching across the records held by The National Archives and archives repositories across the UK.Ìý

:ÌýOnline catalogue of the parliamentary and non-parliamentary enclosure maps for Wales and England.Ìý

: Database of individuals, families and estates involved in the transatlantic slave trade, developed by UCL.Ìý

: An index of Welsh poetry preserved in manuscript, including much of the corpus associated withÌýbeirdd yr uchelwyr, hosted by the National Library of Wales.Ìý

:ÌýIndex to Welsh and English manorial documents, hosted by The National Archives.

: Searchable catalogue of archives and manuscripts held by the National Library of Wales.Ìý

:ÌýList of estate archives held by the National Library of Wales, with links to collection-level descriptions and the online catalogue.

:ÌýA list of estate records relating to musical culture in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Wales.Ìý

:ÌýList of estate archives held by North East Wales Archives (Denbighshire and Flintshire), with links to collection-level descriptions and the online catalogue.Ìý

:ÌýInteractive map hosted by Natural Resources Wales, showing information relating to the natural environment in Wales.Ìý

:ÌýDatabase for accessing Historic Environment Records for historical and archaeological sites across Wales.Ìý

:ÌýDatabase developed by Cadw featuring information on designated historic sites in Wales, including listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered parks and gardens.ÌýÌý

:ÌýThe online database for the National Monuments Record of Wales, hosted by RCAHMW, which contains information and images of thousands of historic buildings, monuments, landscape features and archaeological sites.ÌýÌý

:ÌýWeb map featuring layers of digital images of historical maps relating to an area in north east Wales.Ìý

:ÌýHistoric buildings and tree-ring dating reports for pre-1700 houses in north Wales.Ìý

: Maps produced by RCAHMW showing the administrative boundaries of medieval Wales, including commotes (cymydau) and cantrefs (cantrefi).Ìý

:ÌýReports analysing the historic character of areas defined by the Register of Landscapes of Historic Interest in Wales.Ìý

:ÌýReports analysing the historic character of areas defined by the Register of Landscapes of Historic Interest in Wales.Ìý

:ÌýReports analysing the historic character of areas defined by the Register of Landscapes of Historic Interest in Wales.

:ÌýReports analysing the historic character of areas defined by the Register of Landscapes of Historic Interest in Wales.Ìý

:ÌýA searchable database and map, hosted by RCAHMW, which records thousands of place names collected from historical maps and other sources.ÌýÌý

:ÌýDatabase of demolished and derelict country houses in Wales, developed by Dr Mark Baker.Ìý

:ÌýDatabase of historic parks and gardens in Wales.

:ÌýA gallery of photographs of derelict mansions in Wales by Paul White.Ìý

:ÌýDigitised versions of the agricultural reports produced by Walter Davies.Ìý

:ÌýDigital edition of a selection of Thomas Pennant’s letters and previously unpublished Welsh Tour texts.Ìý

:Ìýeditions of 44 volumes of Welsh poetry produced by the poets of gentry between c.1284-c.1550.Ìý

:ÌýTranscripts of the diaries of various members of the Dillwyn family, hosted by Swansea University.

:ÌýOnline edition of the poetry of Guto’r Glyn.Ìý

:ÌýDigitised copies of early literature relating to agriculture, maintained by the British Agricultural History Society.Ìý

:ÌýA selection of digitised estate maps held by the National Library of Wales.Ìý

:ÌýA selection of digitised records from Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÒÅÆ×ÊÁÏ Archives and Special Collections relating to the Pennant family’s Jamaican sugar plantations and involvement in transatlantic slavery.Ìý

: A searchable database and map providing access to digitised copies of Welsh tithe maps and apportionments, hosted by the National Library of Wales.ÌýÌý

:ÌýA searchable database of digitised historic newspapers relating to Wales, hosted by the National Library of Wales.Ìý

:ÌýAccess to the wills and probate records proved in the Welsh Ecclesiastical Courts prior to 1858, hosted by the National Library of Wales.Ìý

:ÌýDigital copies of the diaries of William Bulkeley of Brynddu, Anglesey, hosted by Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÒÅÆ×ÊÁÏ Archives and Special Collections.Ìý

:ÌýA directory of historical book owners in the UK.Ìý

:ÌýBiographies of individuals and families who have made a significant contribution to Welsh life.Ìý

:ÌýOnline bank of articles, blogs and case studies produced by the East India Company at Home project.Ìý

:ÌýThe standard historical dictionary of the Welsh language.Ìý

:ÌýStories relating to the restoration and role of historic houses in modern day Wales.Ìý

:ÌýBiographies of MPs, constituency profiles and surveys of parliamentary terms.Ìý

:ÌýMulti episode podcast exploring the history of the Penrhyn estate, created by Dr Kayla Jones.Ìý

:ÌýOnline bank of articles and blogs relating to National Trust sites and collections.Ìý

:ÌýArchive of the newsletter of the Welsh Historic Gardens Trust, edited by Glynis Shaw.Ìý

:ÌýOnline catalogue of heritage collections held by the museums comprising Amgueddfa Cymru.Ìý

:ÌýOnline database of artworks held by public institutions across the UK.Ìý

:ÌýA searchable database of the heritage collections belonging to National Trust properties.Ìý

:ÌýAn online database of Welsh heritage items contributed by communities and organisations across the nation.Ìý

:ÌýResearch guidance provided by the University of Nottingham on understanding different types of title deed.

:ÌýResearch guidance provided by the University of Nottingham on the legal terms regularly encountered in estate archives.Ìý

:ÌýResearch guidance provided by the University of Nottingham.Ìý

:ÌýOnline research guidance provided by The National Archives.

:ÌýDigitised copies of key periodicals relating to the history and culture of Wales, including early editions ofÌýArchaeologia Cambrensis,ÌýTransactions of the Cymmrodorion Society,ÌýWelsh History ReviewÌýand the journals and publications of several of Wales’s county history societies.Ìý

Our research into the history, culture and landscape of Wales is inspired by, builds on and responds to generations of scholarship.Ìý This list presents a small selection of the key published works about Wales that inform and contextualise our research:

An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan: Vol. IV, Part 1: The Greater Houses, RCAHMW (1981).

Lloyd Bowen,ÌýEarly Modern Wales c.1536-c.1689: Ambiguous NationhoodÌý(Cardiff, 2022).

D. Carr, ‘The Making of the Mostyns: The Genesis of a Landed Family’,ÌýTransactions of the Honourable Society of CymmrodorionÌý38 (1977), 137-59.

D. Carr, ‘Gwilym ap Gruffydd and the Rise of the Penrhyn Estate’,ÌýWelsh History ReviewÌý15 (1990), 1-20.

D. Carr,ÌýThe Gentry of North Wales in the Later Middle AgesÌý(Cardiff, 2017).

Sarah Ward Clavier,ÌýRoyalism, Religion and Revolution: Wales, 1640-1688Ìý(Woodbridge, 2021).

Matthew Cragoe,ÌýAn Anglican Aristocracy: The Moral Economy of the Landed Estate in Carmarthenshire, 1832-1895(Oxford, 1996)

Matthew Cragoe,ÌýCulture, Politics and National Identity in Wales 1832-1886Ìý(Oxford, 2004).

John Davies, ‘The end of the great estates and the rise of freehold farming in Wales’,ÌýWelsh History ReviewÌý7, 2 (1974), 186-212.

John Davies,ÌýCardiff and the Marquesses of ButeÌý(Cardiff, 1981).

John E. Davies,ÌýThe Changing Fortunes of a British Aristocratic Family 1689-1976: The Cawdors and their Welsh EstatesÌý(Woodbridge, 2019).

R. Davies,ÌýThe Revolt of Owain Glyn Dŵ°ùÌý(Oxford, 1995).

Chris Evans,ÌýSlave Wales: The Welsh and Atlantic SlaveryÌý(Cardiff, 2010).

Colin Gresham,ÌýEifionydd: A Study of LandownershipÌý(Cardiff, 1973).

P. Griffith,ÌýLearning, Law and Religion: Higher Education and Welsh Society c.1540-1640Ìý(Cardiff, 1996).

P. Griffith,ÌýPower, Politics and County Government in Wales: Anglesey 1780-1914Ìý(Llangefni, 2006).

Ralph A. Griffiths,ÌýThe Principality of South Wales in the Later Middle AgesÌý(Cardiff, 1972).

Sally Harper,ÌýMusic in Welsh Culture before 1650Ìý(Aldershot, 2007).

David W. Howell,ÌýLand and People in Nineteenth-Century WalesÌý(London, 1977).

David W. Howell,ÌýPatriarchs and Parasites: The Gentry of South-West Wales in the Eighteenth CenturyÌý(Cardiff, 1986).

David W. Howell,ÌýThe Rural Poor in Eighteenth Century WalesÌý(Cardiff, 2000).

David W. Howell, ‘The Land Question in Nineteenth-Century Wales, Ireland and Scotland’,ÌýAgricultural History Review61, 1 (2013), 96-101.

Melvin Humphreys,ÌýThe Crisis of Community: Montgomeryshire 1680-1815Ìý(Cardiff, 1996).

Daniel Huws,ÌýMedieval Welsh ManuscriptsÌý(Cardiff, 2000).

Brian Ll. James, ‘Great Landowners of Wales in 1873’,ÌýNational Library of Wales JournalÌý14 (1965-66), 301-20.

David Jenkins,ÌýThe Agricultural Community in South-West Wales at the turn of the Twentieth CenturyÌý(Cardiff, 1971).

Philip Jenkins, ‘The demographic decline of the landed gentry in the eighteenth century’,ÌýWelsh History ReviewÌý11, 1 (1982), 31-49.

Philip Jenkins,ÌýThe Making of a Ruling Class: The Glamorganshire Gentry 1640-1790Ìý(Cambridge, 1983).

Philip Jenkins, ‘The creation of an ‘‘ancient gentry’’: Glamorgan 1760-1840’,ÌýWelsh History ReviewÌý12, 1 (1984), 29-49.

Dafydd Johnston,ÌýLlên yr Uchelwyr: Hanes Beiriadol Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg 1300-1525Ìý(Cardiff, 2005).

David J. V. Jones,ÌýBefore Rebecca: Popular Protest in Wales 1793-1835Ìý(London, 1973).

David J. V. Jones,ÌýRebecca’s Children: A Study of Rural Society, Crime and ProtestÌý(Oxford, 1989).

Francis Jones, ‘An Approach to Welsh Genealogy’,ÌýTransactions of the Honourable Society of CymmrodorionÌý(1948), 303-466.

R. J. Jones, ‘Field Systems of North Wales’, in A. R. H. Baker and R. A. Butlin (eds.),ÌýStudies of Field Systems in the British IslesÌý(Cambridge, 1973), pp. 430-79.

Ieuan Gwynedd Jones,ÌýExplorations and Explanations: Essays in the Social History of Victorian Wales (Llandysul, 1981).

Gwynfor Jones,ÌýWales and the Tudor StateÌý(Cardiff, 1989).

Gwynfor Jones,ÌýConcepts of Order and Gentility in Wales 1540-1640Ìý(Llandysul, 1992).

Gwynfor Jones,ÌýThe Welsh Gentry 1536-1640: Images of Status, Honour and AuthorityÌý(Cardiff, 1998).

Gwynfor Jones, ‘The Welsh Gentry and the image of the Cambro-Briton’,ÌýWelsh History ReviewÌý20, 4 (2001), 615-55.

Pierce Jones,ÌýMedieval Welsh Society, ed. J. Beverley Smith (Cardiff, 1972).

Peter Lord,ÌýThe Visual Culture of Wales: Imaging the NationÌý(Cardiff, 2000).

William Linnard,ÌýWelsh Woods and Forests: A HistoryÌý(Cardiff, 1982).

Thomas Lloyd,ÌýThe Lost Houses of Wales, SAVE Britain’s Heritage (2^ndÌýedn., 1989).

Thomas Lloyd, ‘Country-house libraries of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’, in Philip H. Jones and Eiluned Rees (eds.),ÌýA Nation and its Books: A History of the Book in WalesÌý(Aberystwyth, 1998), pp. 135-46.

Joanna Martin,ÌýWives and Daughters: Women and Children in the Georgian Country HouseÌý(London and New York, 2004).

J. Moore-Colyer, ‘The Land Agent in Nineteenth-Century Wales’,ÌýWelsh History ReviewÌý8, 4 (1977), 401-25.

J. Moore-Colyer, ‘Landowners, farmers and language in the nineteenth century’, in Geraint H. Jenkins (ed.),ÌýThe Welsh Language and its Social Domains 1801-1911Ìý(Cardiff, 2000), pp. 81-100.

Kenneth O. Morgan,ÌýWales in British Politics 1868-1922Ìý(Cardiff, 1980).

Prys Morgan, ‘From a death to a view: The Hunt for the Welsh Past in the Romantic Period’, in Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger (eds.),ÌýThe Invention of TraditionÌý(Cambridge, 1983), pp. 43-100.

Huw Owen (ed.),ÌýSettlement and Society in WalesÌý(Cardiff, 1989).

Huw Pryce (ed.),ÌýLiteracy in Medieval Celtic SocietiesÌý(Cambridge, 1998).

Eiluned Rees, ‘An introductory survey of 18^thÌýcentury Welsh Libraries’,ÌýJournal of the Welsh Bibliographic SocietyÌý10 (1966-71), 197-258.

Peter Roberts, ‘The decline of the Welsh squires in the eighteenth century,ÌýNational Library of Wales JournalÌý13 (1963-64), 157-73.

Peter R. Roberts, ‘Tudor Wales, National Identity and the British Inheritance’, in Brendan Bradshaw and Peter R. Roberts (eds.),ÌýBritish Consciousness and Identity: The Making of Britain, 1533-1707Ìý(Cambridge, 1998), pp. 8-42.

P. Siddons,ÌýThe Development of Welsh Heraldry, 4 Vols. (Aberystwyth, 1991-2007).

Llinos Beverley Smith, ‘The gage and the land market in late medieval Wales’,ÌýEconomic History Review,Ìý2^ndÌýSeries 29, 4 (1976), 430-79.

Peter Smith,ÌýHouses of the Welsh Countryside, RCAHMW (2^ndÌýEdn., 1988).

John Steegman,ÌýA Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, 2 Vols. (Cardiff, 1957-62).

Dorothy Sylvester,ÌýThe Rural Landscape of the Welsh BorderlandÌý(London, 1969).

Colin Thomas, ‘Estate surveys as sources in historical geography’,ÌýNational Library of Wales JournalÌý14, 4 (1966), 451-68

Colin Thomas, ‘Patterns and Processes of Estate Expansion’,ÌýJournal of the Merioneth Historical & Record SocietyÌý6 (1972), 333-42.

Colin Thomas, ‘Place-name studies and agrarian colonization in north Wales’,ÌýWelsh History ReviewÌý10, 2 (1980), 154-71.

Hilary Thomas,ÌýA Catalogue of Glamorgan Estate Maps, Glamorgan Archives (1992)

Peter D. G. Thomas,ÌýPolitics in Eighteenth-Century WalesÌý(Cardiff, 1992).

Herbert M. Vaughan,ÌýThe South Wales SquiresÌý(London, 1925).

Eurwyn Wiliam,ÌýThe Welsh Cottage: Building Traditions of the Rural Poor 1750-1900, RCAHMW (2011).

David Williams,ÌýThe Rebecca Riots: A Study in Agrarian DiscontentÌý(Cardiff, 1955).