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Cardiff and the Marquesses of Bute

Author(s) John Davies

Paperback - £18.99

Language: English

Genre(s): History, Wales Studies

Series: Studies in Welsh History

October 2011 · 116 pages ·216x138mm

· Paperback - 9780708324639

About the Book
About the Author(s)

As late as 1980, a quarter of the population of Wales lived within the boundaries of what had once been the lordships of the Bute estate. Powerful landowners for centuries, the Stuarts of Bute were key drivers of the many social, political, and economic changes that transformed south Wales between the eighteenth and twentieth century. This volume explores the Butes and their influence, setting them in context of a long, interwoven history of landed proprietorship, economic development, and the rise of the industrial middle class throughout Britain.

Author(s): John Davies

Menna Baines is a Welsh writer and editor, writing for a number of Welsh publications. John Davies was a historian and lecturer at the University of Aberystwyth, encompassing work on the development of the Welsh landscape and the history of Cardiff. As well as being one of the most significant poets in his field, and an Editor of the Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales, Nigel Jenkins won acclaim in other genres, most notably for his history of the Welsh in India, Gwalia in Khasia, which won the Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year award. He died in January 2014.