ABSTRACT
J. E. Lloyd's History of Wales (Benn's Sixpenny Library, no. 119, 1930), now out of print, is an excellent brief survey, which should be supplemented by the article on the history of Wales in Chambers' Encyclopedia (1950), vol. 14. An indispensable work of reference is the Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940 (Hon. Soc. Cymmrodorion, London, 1959), which first appeared in Welsh in 1953 Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940). E. G. Bowen's Wales: a study in geography and history (1959*) is stimulating, illuminating and well illustrated. The text in W. Rees' Historical Atlas of Wales from Early to Modern Times (Faber, rev. edn 1967) provides a useful summary of Welsh history, fuller on the medieval than on the modern period. Wales through the Ages, ed. A. J. Roderick (Davies, Llandybie, Car-marthenshire, 2 vols, 1959-60) comprises fifty-one BBC talks by thirty-six scholars on Welsh history from prehistoric times to the present century. Aspects of Welsh History (ed. A. H. Dodd and J. G. Williams, 1969) is a posthumous collection of scholarly and authoritative articles written by the late Professor Glyn Roberts on medieval and modern Welsh historical topics.
