Welsh Journals

Ieuan Gwynedd Jones discusses the relationship between industry and religion in Cwmafan, West Glamorgan, in the nineteenth-century, in The Journal ofWelsh Religious Hist., 6, 13-44. The life and work of Thomas Powell of The Gaer, Newport (1780?-63), a prominent coal-owner, are discussed by G. W. J. Lovering, in Gwent Local Hist., 84,4-15. The life of Sir Erasmus Williams Bt., chancellor of St. David's Cathedral, is discussed by Roger Brown, in The Journal of the Pembrokeshire Historical Soc., 8, 27-48. Helen Forder offers a brief portrait of Lady Hanover and her family, in Gwent Local Hist., 84, 16-34. Derec Uwyd Morgan discusses the relationship between faith and science in the works of Welsh poets in the Victorian period, in Lien Cymru, 21, 88-138 (in Welsh). Women and poverty in south-west Wales, 1834-1914, are discussed by Grace Hagen, Llafur, 7 (3 and 4), 21-33. Roger L. Brown discusses the effects of Queen Anne's Bounty and the Ecclesiastical Commission on the Montgomeryshire parishes ofTregynon, Forden, Llandrinio, Manafon, Montgomery and Guilsfield, in The Montgomeryshire Collections, 86, 97-122. The life of James Barnes, a nineteenth-century magistrate from Presteign, is narrated by Katherine von Schmidt, in The Transactions of the Radnorshire Soc., LXVIII, 15-33. The life and activities of Henry Robertson Sandbach (1806-95), the squire of Uangernyw, are related by Andrew Cox, in Transactions of the Denbighshire Historical Soc., 47, 15-33. The letters of 'Hen Gymraes', written in 1921, recalling life in Ebbw Vale in the 1840s, are reprinted in Gwent Local History, 84, 35-49. The story of Evan Roberts, a Meirioneth farmer's son, who went to Australia in search of gold in 1853, is related by the late Lewis W. Lloyd, in Journal of the Merioneth Historical and Record Soc., XIII (1), 43-52. R. F. Roberts examines some stonemasons from Trelawnyd, Abergele and St George, who emigrated to America and became Mormons, in Transactions of the Denbighshire Historical Soc., 47, 34-44. Gwyn Walters gives an account of how the benefactions of Thomas Philips