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Civilising the Urban Popular Culture and Public Space in Merthyr, c. 1870-1914
Andy Croll
University of Wales Press pp. xii + 240 25 [pounds sterling
MERTHYR TYDFIL has often seemed to be the bellwether of Welsh history. Named after the martyred Celtic saint, Tydfil, (merthyr = martyr) it was a pioneering area for dissent, industry and radical politics in Wales. The Merthyr Rising of 1831 gave it a working-class martyr, Dic Penderyn, to add to its Christian one, and the victory of Henry Richard in the election of 1868 was symbolic of the Liberal domination of Welsh ...
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