Royal Commission Archive & Library Bulletin of Newly Catalogued Material – April 2021

Archives

In light of both the Coronavirus outbreak and the migration of our records to a new digital platform we are presently unable to share our list of newly catalogued archive material with you. Please scroll down to view recent acquisitions to our Library.

Books

All our books and journals can be found on the Royal Commission’s Library Catalogue and viewed in our Library and Search Room.

• Allan, J. and Murray, A. 2020. British Railways The First 25 Years Vol 10. : Mid-Wales and the Cambrian Coast including the Central Wales Line and the Vale of Rheidol and Welshpool & Llanfair narrow gauge lines. Lydney: Lightmoor Press.
• Bland, Roger et al. 2020. Iron Age & Roman coin hoards in Britain. Oxford: Oxbow.
• Comeau, Rhiannon. 2020. Land, people and power in early medieval Wales : the cantref of Cemais in comparative perspective. BAR British Series 659. Oxford: BAR Publishing.
• Davies, John et al. 2016. Castles and the Anglo-Norman World. Oxford: Oxbow.
• Dowd, Marion. 2021. The archaeology of caves in Ireland. Oxford: Oxbow.
• Endres, Gunter and Hobster, Graham. 2017. Power & Protection: Castles and fortified manor houses of Medieval Britain, Volume 4 – Wales. [Place of publication not identified]: Endres and Hobster.
• Gwyn, David. 2019. Lost Swansea. Stroud: Amberley.
• Hillerdal, Charlotta and Ilves, Kristin. 2020. Re-imagining periphery: Archaeology and text in Northern Europe from Iron Age to Viking and Early Medieval periods. Oxford: Oxbow.
• Hooper, Alan and Punter, John (Eds.). 2007. Capital Cardiff 1975-2020: Regeneration, competitiveness and the urban environment. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
• Jackson, Robin. 2012. Ariconium Herefordshire: A Iron Age settlement and Romano-British ‘small town’. Oxford: Oxbow.
• Jenkins, J. G. 2009. Getting yesterday right: Interpreting the heritage of Wales. Stroud: Amberley.
• Jones, Andy M. 2017. Preserved in peat: An extraordinary Bronze Age burial on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor, and its wider context. Oxford: Oxbow.
• King, Peter. 2020. A Gazetteer of the British Iron Industry, 1490-1815, Vols I and II. BAR British Series 652. Oxford: BAR.
• Morris, James. 2010. A landscape of Wales. Stockport: Dewi Lewis Publishing.
• Rendall, P. D. 2020. Severn Tunnel Junction. Ramsbury: The Crowood Press.
• Russell, Tony. 2015. The finest gardens in Wales. Stroud: Amberley.
• Willmot, Hugh. 2020. The dissolution of the monasteries in England and Wales. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing Ltd.

Journals

• Ancient Monuments Society / The Friends of Friendless Churches Newsletter Part 1 (Spring 2021).
• Ancient Monuments Society Transactions Volume 65 (2021).
• AJ Specification Volume March (2021).
• Architects’ Journal Volume 248 (Issue 3 25/03/2021).
• Archive: the quarterly journal for British Industrial and Transport History Volume 109 (March 2021).
• British Archaeology Volume 178 (May/June 2021).
• Brycheiniog Volume 52 (2021).
• Building Conservation Directory Volume 28 (2021).
• Cartographic Journal Volume 57 (Number 3, August 2020).
• Ceredigion Volume 18 (Number 4 2020).
• CHERISH Newsletter Volume 6 (August 2020).
• Community Archaeology & Heritage Journal Volume 8 (Number 1 February 2021).
• Domestic Buildings Research Group: Surrey Newsletter Volume 147 (January 2021).
• Essex Historic Buildings Group Newsletter Volume 4 (April 2021).
• Landscapes Volume 20 (Number 2, December 2019).
• Maplines Spring (2021).
• Monmouthshire Antiquary: Proceedings of the Monmouthshire Antiquarian Society Volume 35 (2019-2020).
• Past: the newsletter of the Prehistoric Society Volume 96 (Autumn 2020).
• Railway & Canal Historical Society Bulletin Volume 490 (March 2021).
• Railway & Canal Historical Society Journal Volume 40 (Part 4, Number 240 March 2021).
• Sheetlines Volume 120 (April 2021).
• Tools & Trades History Society Newsletter Volume 148 (Spring 2021).
• Vernacular Architecture Group Journal Volume 49 (2018).
• Vernacular Architecture Group Newsletter Volumes 79 and 80 (August 2020 and April 2021).
• Victorian Volume 66 (March 2021).
• Welsh Mills Society Newsletter Volume 143 (April 2021).
• Welsh Railways Research Circle Newsletter Volume 165 (Spring 2021).

Journals: Current Awareness

• Ancient Monuments Society / The Friends of Friendless Churches Newsletter Part 1 (Spring 2021), p.7-13 Casework: objection submitted to aspects of a proposed refurbishment of the Gladstone Library, Hawarden, Flintshire; objection submitted to the demolition of Aberaeron Hospital, Ceredigion; objection submitted concerning Tudno Castle Hotel, Llandudno; concerns submitted concerning SS Mael and Sulien, Corwen, Merioneth and the lack of Statements of Significance as part of the planning application; query concerning the too vigorous cleaning and lichen removal of the Preaching Cross, Llangan, Glamorgan; Bethel chapel, Pontrhydyfen, Glamorgan – support of application to convert it to a café; objection to plans to remove pews and pulpit at Mount Pleasant Baptist Chapel, Swansea. P.17 & p.20 Short report on the progress of the reroofing of St Brothen’s Llanfrothen. P.21-24 Friends of Friendless Churches has taken on St Mary’s Church, Llangattock Vibon Avel and Llanonno Church which Herbert Luck North helped repair. P28 news of St Elvan’s Church Aberdare receiving a large pot of money for its partial refurbishment as a Community Heritage Centre whilst also retaining its religious function. P. 32 Threatened places of worship – St Michaels, Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa, Montgomeryshire. P.40 Wrexham Museum to be recast as a new ‘Football Museum for Wales’
• Ancient Monuments Society Transactions Volume 65 (2021), p.7-19 Dancing and Dicing with Death: literary evidence for some lost wall paintings in Wales, Madeleine Gray and David Hale.
• British Archaeology Volume 178 (May/June 2021). Much of this issue is concerned with Wales.
• Brycheiniog Volume 52 (2021), p.23-57 Hay Castle and Haysland: the architectural personality of a Marcher Lordship, Richard Suggett.
• Community Archaeology & Heritage Journal Volume 8 (Number 1 February 2021), p.58-76 People, places and performance: reflections on community archaeology and heritage in north-east Wales, Paul Bedford and Penelope Foreman (CPAT).
• Railway & Canal Historical Society Journal Volume 40 (Part 4, Number 240 March 2021) p.239-248 Mr Gladstone, coal and Wrexham’s second railway, David Parry.
• Vernacular Architecture Group Newsletter Volume 80 (April 2021), p.29-33 A fireplace at Plas Menai, Llan Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Avis Reynolds (Discovering Old Welsh Houses group).
• Victorian Volume 66 ( March 2021), p.21 Casework – Palace Theatre, Swansea.

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