Some Sample Pages

Swansea History Web is a regularly updated growing resource of over 900 pages and items of Swansea and local history. Here are a few sample pages from the subscription area:

• The 'Layer Keeper' [pdf file] from The history of the port sheets)
• Evidence: A 1938 Air Raid Guide (from Swansea and the Blitz)
• Early Electricity in Swansea (from resources on the history of Swansea)
• The mine war in the Bristol Channel 1939-41 (from U boats in the Bristol Channel
• Swansea Union Workhouse - A nurse's duties in 1904 (from The Poor Law in Swansea)
• Housing: Sources before 1800 (from Early Housing in Swansea)
• The Slip emerges (from Swansea and Swansea Bay)
• The Uncrowned King Of Swansea (from the history of the Port of Swansea)
• Who put the 'Sweyn' in Swansea? (from resources on the history of Swansea)
• Attitudes to water supply (from Cholera in South Wales)
• Dowlais Ironworks 1800 - 1840 (from the iron industry in South Wales)

Free PDF thumbnail views: Port Sheets; World War 1 Cartoons; Brangwyn Panels/Guildhall opening 1934

• 12 months access to the complete Swansea History Web which currently has approximately 900 pages, resources, and items of Swansea's local history.
• Email link to the Editor.

This is a list of all the Swansea History pages; and here's some free samples from the subscription collection.