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New Perspectives on Welsh Industrial History

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This volume offers a perspective on Welsh industrial history which shifts the focus away from the coal and iron communities of Victorian and Edwardian Wales, to encompass studies of a wider range of industries over a long time frame. The essays in this book span the period from the early eighteenth-...

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ISBN: 978-1-78683-500-0 978-1-78683-501-7
Published: Cardiff University of Wales Press 2020
Online Access: https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/new-perspectives-on-welsh-industrial-history/
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