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Revivals of religion have been a feature of Welsh history from the mid 18th century until 1905, starting with the influence of the early Methodists (originally an Evangelical movement within the Anglican church), although Caernarfonshire, unlike Anglesey, had some remnants of Puritan influence. This book traces the origins of revivals in one Welsh county and looks at some of the personalities and phenomena associated with these outpourings of...

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The story, covering more than a century, of three generations of the Griffiths family of Nefyn, Gwynedd, North Wales, who went to sea. The story begins with the small Llyn port of Porthdinllaen, which at one time had more master mariners per square inch than anywhere else in the United Kingdom. By the end of the 19th century the family moved to the growing major port of Liverpool, which was becoming the "capital of North Wales", before William...

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Wales has often been referred to as a Land of Revivals, and Anglesey is no exception. This book traces the history and impacts of the series of revivals that touched Anglesey from the 18th century to the most recent one, which was in 1905.Some of these revivals were local, touching individual villages and their vicinity, while others were part of a more widespread move of God.

The village of Newborough has a rich history, which includes the ruins of a medieval princely residence and the shrine of the Welsh equivalent of St Valentine. In the 16th century it enjoyed a brief spell as the county town, a status which later attracted whispers of political influence by a foreign power, and by the 18th century it was involved in a political wrangling with its rival, Beaumaris. The growing of marram grass to prevent the engu...

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