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The Welsh town that forged its place in labour history
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Merthyr: The Crucible of Modern Wales
by Joe England
(Parthian £20)
MERTHYR TYDFIL is the most written about town in Wales, possibly because its twin town, Dowlais, produced two distinguished historians in Gwyn Alf Williams and Glanmor Williams. Here Joe England brings his own perspective to Merthyr’s tumultuous 19th-century history.
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