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A Life in History
by John Davies
(Y Lolfa, £9.99)
JOHN DAVIES (1938-2015) had a background well suited to a Welsh historian.
His early years were spent in the mining village of Treorchy, Rhondda, where his paternal grandfather died in the Maerdy colliery disaster of 1885, two months after the birth of his father.
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