With the publication of 'Wales After 1536' this trilogy of Welsh historical guides is completed. This third and final book, takes the reader from the religious quarrels of the Reformation years in the 16th century, through the tumultuous upheaval of civil war in the 17th and the vital religious and educational movements of the 18th century, to the middle of the 19th century, by which time the Welsh people, especially those who lived in the over-hastily industrialised valleys of the south and in the coal and iron fields of the north-east of Wales, had experienced the full horrors of the Industrial Revolution.
Contents:
Foreword: Welsh Hopes and Fears
Part 1. Religion in the Sixteenth Century
A (a) The Reformation in Wales 1535-1558
(b) The Elizabethan Settlement
(c) The Struggles for the Mind of Wales
(d) The Beginnings of Nonconformist Dissent
B Notes and Illustrations
Part 2. The Upheaval in the Seventeenth Century
A (a) The Outlook in the New Century
(b) A Welshman in High Places
(c) The Impact of the Civil War
(d) Wales Under the Commonwealth
(e) The Spread of Nonconformity
B Notes and Illustrations
Part 3. Developments in the Eighteenth Century
A (a) Economic
(b) Educational
(c) Religious
(d) Intellectual and Imaginative
B Notes and Illustrations
Part 4. The Industrial Revolution and Social Unrest 1800-1850
A (a) The Impact of the Industrial Revolution on Wales
(b) Revolution of Reform, 1815-1831
(c) The Spread of Unrest, 1831-1834
(d) The Churches
(e) Rural Unrest and the Rebecca Riots, 1839-1843
(f) Wales in Mid-Century
B Notes and Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Index
