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Publications - free

Glamorgan Record Office has produced a selection of free information leaflets to help you get started in your research, they are available to download using Adobe Acrobatempty

Publications - for sale

The list that follows does not include the cost of postage and packing either in the UK or abroad, for information about postal charges please email the office at: Glamro@cardiff.gov.uk

Maps
John Speed's Plan of Cardiff, 1610
(enlargement, modern colouring)
 
£2.00
Cardiff in the late 1830's, by John Wood
(b&w)
£2.00
Cardiff, 1851
(coloured)
£3.50
District plan of Cardiff and Penarth 1869, by T Waring
(b&w)
£2.00
Glamorgan ribbon road map 1675, by John Ogilby £2.00
Glamorgan 1799, by George Yates, one inch (b&w) £6.50
Merthyr Tydfil 1898, North and South (b&w) £2.00 each or £3.00 the pair

Books and Booklets

The Diaries of John Bird, 1790-1803 £12.00
Bridges of Merthyr Tydfil
described and illustrated by W.L. Davies is a comprehensive catalogue of more than three hundred bridges in the Merthyr Tydfil area.
£6.00

A Catalogue of Glamorgan Estate Maps
by Hilary Thomas brings together the many hundreds of estate maps, dating from c.1600 to c.1850 in the care of the Glamorgan Record Office; an introduction describes what influenced landowners to commission surveys of their estates
144pp. 37 illustr.

£6.00
Parish Registers of Wales - hardback £14.95
Poor Relief in Merthyr Tydfil in Victorian Times
by Tydfil Thomas, shows how the 'amended' Poor Law of 1834 operated in the Klondike of Wales. The book is well-illustrated with contemporary drawings and photographs
199pp. 83 illustr.
£6.00

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Hughesovka: A Welsh Enterprise in Imperial Russia
by Susan Edwards (Glamorgan Archivist), tells the story of John Hughes of Merthyr Tydfil, his New Russia Company and the town, works and collieries which he established in the Ukraine
72pp. 100 illustr.
£1.00

Posters

Barry Island for Sale, 1877 £1.00
Emigration to America and Canada 1875 £1.00
GWR Broad Gauge Locomotives, 1837-1892 £1.00
Llantrisant Workhouse Rules, 1784 £1.00
Rules of Llantwit Major School, 1831 £1.00

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