A copy of the report of a research project conducted and presented by Owen Roberts and directed jointly by Dr Richard Coopey and Professor Aled Jones. The three main objectives of the project were to write a series of narrative histories of dam building and water supply in north east Wales from the 1880s to the present day, to equip future researchers with a guide to archives and collections pertaining to the Welsh water industry, and to establish within the University of Wales an internationally recognised centre for the study of water history.
Research work undertaken by Hugh Jones on the casulaties listed on the memorial tablet at St George's Church, Reynoldston, Gower, who died during the First World War. Included are short biographies of the fallen soldiers.
A copy of 'Speech of the Earl of Powis [i.e. Edward, second earl] in the House of Lords on Tuesday, May 23, 1843, on moving the second reading of a bill for preventing the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor . . .' (London, 1843), with letters and printed papers relating to the threatened union of the sees, the object of which was to transfer the income of the see that would be suppressed to a see of Manchester. Among the papers are letters from the earl of Powis, George William, fourth baron Lyttelton, and Charles Scott Luxmoore, dean of St. Asaph.
A typescript copy, 1940, of 'The Tribal System in Wales Examined' by Timothy Lewis (1877-1958), a version of which was published as 'The Tribal System in Wales' in the Economic History Review, second series, 6 (1954), 297-304, and also 'Seebohm's Tribal System of Wales' in ibid., second series, 9 (1956), 16-33.
A copy of a typescript work compiled by Grace Childs entitled 'Water in the Community. The Wells of Burton Parish, Pembrokeshire', including photographs and a map showing the location of each well.
A volume containing an early manuscript draft, [c. 1932], by Margiad Evans of her second novel, The Wooden Doctor (Oxford, 1933), here entitled 'A Divine Image', and containing material not included in the published text. The volume was originally in the possession of the geologist and palaeontologist Robert Etheridge and contains notes by him, 1854, on lead mining in Cardiganshire (ff. 242 verso-244).
The first of two volumes of copies of inscriptions on tombstones in Newmarket Church, Flintshire, with notes on the history of the parish transcribed from manuscript sources by Thomas Allen Glenn.
Glenn, Thomas Allen, 1864- Copies of tombstone inscriptions by (1900-1948), NLW MSS 1113-1114C
The second of two volumes of copies of inscriptions on tombstones in Newmarket Church, Flintshire, with notes on the history of the parish transcribed from manuscript sources by Thomas Allen Glenn.
Glenn, Thomas Allen, 1864- Copies of tombstone inscriptions by (1900-1948), NLW MSS 1113-1114C
The second of two volumes of manuscripts called Genealogical notes relating to the ancestry of the people called Quakers in Wales and Early meetings of the people called the Quakers in North Wales, Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, by Thomas Allen Glenn, 1920.
Glenn, Thomas Allen, 1864- Notes by, on Quakers in Wales (1920), NLW MS 1115-1116D
The first of two volumes of manuscripts called Genealogical notes relating to the ancestry of the people called Quakers in Wales and Early meetings of the people called the Quakers in North Wales, Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, by Thomas Allen Glenn, 1920.
Glenn, Thomas Allen, 1864- Notes by, on Quakers in Wales (1920), NLW MS 1115-1116D
An 'incomplete history' by the donor Nicholas C. Jenkins, 2007, into the history of Thomas Town Brickworks, Merthyr Tydfil. The first section of the work was published in the Merthyr historian, vol. 19 (2008), and the second section includes reproductions of Merthyr Brick and Tile Company Limited company records which are held by the National Archives, Kew.
The author's manuscript of the article, by Timothy Lewis (1877-1958), entitled 'The Evolution of the Welsh Home', printed in Aberystwyth Studies, Vol. IV, 1922.
An account of tithes of Efenechtyd, 1799; miscellaneous personal and household accounts, 1801-1805; sermons preached at Efenechtyd and Llangynhafal, 1815-1828.
A bound attested copy of the apportionment of rent charge payable in lieu of tithes in the parish of Gwnnws, co. Cardigan, as confirmed by the Tithe Commissioners in 1847, prefaced by a copy of the award made prior to the apportionment and confirmed by the Commissioners in 1844.
