Tag: industrial
Lady Charlotte Guest: The Exceptional Life of a Female Industrialist
I began reading Victoria Owen’s account of Lady Charlotte Guest, knowing little about Lady Charlotte and what she accomplished. On concluding the book …
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Early Twentieth-century Welsh Plays in English, Vol 1: ‘A Dirty Broth’
The first volume of a two-book series devoted to Welsh writing for the theatre, A Dirty Broth, contains the complete texts of just three plays. You m …
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Saints and Lodgers: Poems of WH Davies
I am the Poet Davies, William, I sin without a blush or blink: I am a man that lives to eat; I am a man that lives to drink Thus, with the easy …
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The Greatest Need: The Creative Life and Troubled Times of Lily Tobias, a Welsh Jew in Palestine, by Jasmine Donahaye
Eluned Gramich sings in praise of readers of unkosher novels and among them, Lily Tobias, the subject of Jasmine Donahaye’s expert biography in Honno’ …
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Swansea Automatic
How does a colour become a symbolic colour? How does a place become a symbolic place? Why is this book about SWANSEA and not ABERYSTWYTH or LONDON? In …
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Water, Water, Nowhere
Mattie tried to remain composed while she faced the IriScan, keeping her features relaxed so the pigment algorithm of her irises could be analysed. It …
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Abel Thomas and Sons Butter Merchants Ltd
‘The Abel family had business in its blood.’ So writes DJ Williams of my mother’s forbears in his deeply felt memoir of nineteenth-century Carmarthens …
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It’s Gone Dark Over Bill’s Mother’s
A china sausage dog – the centrepiece of a grandmother’s fireplace – becomes a tragi-comic memento mori of the industry that once sustained an entire …
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Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North
In Down to the Sea in Ships (2014), Horatio Clare told the story of his voyage around the world on a container ship. In Icebreaker, he takes to the se …
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