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Industrial South Wales 1750-1914 Essays in Welsh Economic History

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South Wales was one of the main centres of the Industrial Revolution in Britain but the story of the rapid growth of an industrial society there has not yet been fully told, since much of the work done has consisted of articles rather than books. This volume brings together a selection of important contributions hitherto only accessible in a large number of scattered periodicals. These articles... Read more

PREFACE Page vii

INTRODUCTION

W. E. MINCHINTON

Industrial South Wales, 1750–1914 ix

PART ONE: POPULATION

{ensp}1 T. MANSEL HODGES

The Peopling of the Hinterland and Port of Cardiff, 1801–1914 (Economic History Review, XVII (1947), 62–72) 3

{ensp}2 A. H. DODD

The Character of Welsh Emigration to the United States to 1840 (From The character of early Welsh emigration to the United States, University of Wales Press, 1956) 19

{ensp}3 BRINLEY THOMAS The Migration of Labour into the Glamorganshire Coalfield, 1861–1911 (Economica, X (1930), 275–94) 37

PART TWO: INDUSTRY

{ensp}4. L. B. NAMIER

Anthony Bacon, M.P., an Eighteenth-century Merchant (Journal of Economic and Business History, II (1929), 20–70) 59

{ensp}5 W. E. MINCHINTON

The Tinplate Maker and Technical Change (Explorations in Entrepreneurial History, VII (1957), 1–11) 107

{ensp}6 R. O. ROBERTS

The Development and Decline of the Non-ferrous Metal Smelting Industries in South Wales (Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1956), 78–115) 121

PART THREE: BANKING

{ensp}7 T. MANSEL HODGES

Early Banking in Cardiff (Economic History Review, XVIII (1948), 84–90) 163

{ensp}8 R. O. ROBERTS

Bank of England Branch Discounting, 1826–59 (Economica, XXV (1958), 230–45) 173

{ensp}9 T. MANSEL HODGES

The History of the Newport and Caerleon Savings Bank, 1839–88 (Economic History Review, 2nd series, II (1949), 188–99) 190

PART FOUR: LABOUR

10 E. J. JONES

‘Scotch Cattle’ and Early Trade Unionism in Wales (Economic History, I (1928), 385–93) 209

11 J. H. MORRIS and L. J. WILLIAMS

The South Wales Sliding Scale (Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies, XXVIII (1960), 161–76) 218