Collections Historical & Archaeological Relating To Montgomeryshire And Its Borders (Volume Xviii)

Step inside the lost record-office of a Welsh county, where every page preserves a life, a landscape, a long-vanished custom. History lives in these pages. Collections Historical & Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire and Its Borders (Volume XVIII) is a cornerstone montgomeryshire local history collection, gathering Powysland Club historical papers from the great age of Victorian montgomeryshire historical research. Scholarly yet vivid, these essays, transcriptions and reports range across parish, manor and market town, combining 19th century Wales archaeology with topography, folklore, church history and the quiet details of everyday life along the Welsh border. As a welsh county history reference, montgomeryshire collections volume xviii stands at the crossroads of archive and narrative, preserving parish registers montgomeryshire wales, montgomeryshire genealogy records and other carefully edited primary source historical documents that still underpin serious study today. Indispensable for local history researchers and for family history research, this volume speaks equally to casual readers of regional history and to collectors of classic county series. Its portraits of farms, churches, ancient earthworks and border families form a rich backdrop for welsh border archaeology studies and for anyone tracing the deep roots of place, name and community in Montgomeryshire and neighbouring counties. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.