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The South Wales Record Society is a
text publication society A text publication society is a learned society which publishes (either as its sole function, or as a principal function) scholarly editions of old works of historical or literary interest, or archival documents. In addition to full texts, a text p ...
. It was established in 1982 as the successor to the
South Wales and Monmouth Record Society South is one of the cardinal directions or Points of the compass, compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Pro ...
(active ''c''.1949 to ''c''.1963) with the aim of publishing important manuscript sources relating to South Wales.


Publications of the South Wales Record Society

The Society publishes single-volume editions of important historical sources relating to South Wales, with introductory texts, indexes and illustrations. # ''Morganiae Archaiographia: a book of the antiquities of Glamorganshire, by Rice Merrick'' (1983) # ''Map of Glamorgan (1799)'' # ''Map of the County of Monmouth (1830)'' # ''Diaries of John Bird 1790–1803'

# ''Llandaff Episcopal Acta, 1140–1287'' # ''Letterbook of Richard Crawshay, 1788–1797'' # ''Diocese of Llandaff in 1763'' # ''History of Monmouthshire, Vol. 5'

# ''The Penrice Letters, 1768–1795'' # ''The Glamorgan Hearth Tax Assessment of 1670'' (out of prin

# ''The Diary of William Thomas, 1762–1795'' # ''Monmouthshire Wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1560–1601'' # ''St Davids Episcopal Acta, 1085–1280'' # ''The Letterbook of John Byrd, Customs Collector in South-East Wales, 1647–80'' # ''The Pennard Manor Court Book 1673–1701'' # ''The Letter-Books of W. Gilbertson & Co., Pontardawe, 1890–1929'' # ''The Letters of Edward Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff, 1828–49 # Women's Rights and Womanly Duties': The Aberdare Women's Liberal Association, 1891–1910'' # ''The Household Accounts of the Aubreys of Llantrithyd 1621–1637'' # ''In conversation with Napoleon Bonaparte: J. H. Vivian's visit to the Island of Elba'' (2008) # ''Men at Arms: musters in Monmouthshire, 1539 and 1601–2'' (2009) # ''The Swansea Wartime Diary of Laurie Latchford, 1940–41'' (2010) # ''Robert Morris and the first Swansea Copper Works, c.1727–1730'' (2010) # ''The Correspondence of Thomas Henry Thomas 'Arlunydd Penygarn (2012) # ''War Underground. Memoirs of a Bevin Boy in the South Wales Coalfield'' (2013) # ''Cas gan gythraul: Demonology, Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Eighteenth-century Wales'' (2015) # I hope to have a good passage...': the business letters of Captain Daniel Jenkins, 1902–11'' (2016) # ''A Spiritual Botanology: Shewing What of God Appears in the Herbs of the Earth; Together with Some of Their Natural Virtues and Uses: In Blank Verse, and Rhime. By S. Lucilius Verus (Edmund Jones)'' (2017) # ''Charley's War: the diary of Charles Parkinson Heare, 2nd Battalion The Monmouthshire Regiment, 1914–1919'' (2018) Some publications have been digitised by the National Library of Wales#Welsh Journals Online, Welsh Journals Online project at the
National Library of Wales The National Library of Wales ( cy, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru), Aberystwyth, is the national legal deposit library of Wales and is one of the Welsh Government sponsored bodies. It is the biggest library in Wales, holding over 6.5 million boo ...
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Publications available from Welsh Journals Online
Text publication societies 1982 establishments in Wales Regional and local learned societies of the United Kingdom Historical organisations based in Wales Historical societies of the United Kingdom Organizations established in 1982 {{Wales-org-stub