ABSTRACT
Welsh history offers fertile ground for anyone interested in the social and political consequences of industrialisation. The economic history of Tudor and Stuart Wales is brilliantly covered in the Agrarian history of England and Wales, both edited by Joan Thirsk. The booming Welsh historical world has often been deeply influenced by the current concerns of English scholarship, about crime and social protest, or class and deference in the industrial age. On the religious history of the eighteenth century, G. F. Nuttall published an account of Howell Harris 1714-1773, The last enthusiast, which places him in the wider British and European contexts. On the process of industrialisation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the books by Dodd, John and Rees are all valuable. The history of labour organisation and militancy has inevitably been a major source of attention, and this interest was inevitably refreshed by the growth of radical history.
