Tag: industrial Wales

• Sir Pryce Pryce-Jones (1834–1920)

  

  The Welsh Entrepreneur Who Engineered Distance from Newtown In the standard story of modern retail, innovation belongs to cities. Manchester industrialises production, London refines display, Liverpool masters distribution. Yet one of the most consequential changes in consumer life began not in a metropolis, but in Newtown, Montgomeryshire. From this small mid-Wales market town, Sir Pryce…

  Antony David Davies

  24/02/2026

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• The Treachery of 1847: How the “Blue Books” Colonised the Welsh Mind

  

  In 1847 three substantial parliamentary reports were laid before Westminster under the unromantic title Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of Education in Wales. Their blue covers gave them their enduring popular name, the “Blue Books”, and their conclusions, or at least the spirit in which those conclusions were delivered, detonated across…

  Antony David Davies

  13/02/2026

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