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This is a bibliography of published works on the history of Wales. It includes published books (by historians, antiquarians and translators), journals, and educational and academic history-related websites; it does not include self-published works, blogs or user-edited sites. Works may cover aspects of Welsh history inclusively or exclusively (see titles for guidance).

The list's primary purpose is to provide clearly-formatted sources for editors of articles on (or which contain elements of) Welsh history. Wikilinks to authors may provide further bibliographies. A Google Books link may be included, where search terms may yield individual page views or a free e-book.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (March 2019)

Mediaeval writers

Anon: Chronicle of the Princes (Brut y Tywysogion) - see 1859
Anon: Annales Cambriae - see 1888
Bede - see online sources
Gerald of Wales - see 1806 and 1868
Gildas - see 1841

18th and 19th centuries

"Cambrian Register". 2. Williams, Strand, London. 1799. ((cite journal)): Cite journal requires |journal= (help) - downloadable PDF
Giraldus de Barri (1806). The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales, AD 1188. Vol. 2. Translated by Hoare, Richard. London: William Miller.
Fenton, Richard (1811). A historical tour through Pembrokeshire. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & co.
Jones, John (1824). The History of Wales. London: J Williams.
Giles, John Allen (1841). The works of Gildas and Nennius from the Latin. London: James Bohn. - downloadable pdf
Lewis, Samuel (1845). A topographical dictionary of Wales: Abbey to Llandyvrydog. Vol. 1 (3 ed.). Oxford University. - downloadable pdf
Lewis, Samuel (1848). A topographical dictionary of Wales. Vol. 2. S. Lewis & Co.
"Archæologia Cambrensis: "Chronicle of the Princes"". 3. X. 1859. ((cite journal)): Cite journal requires |journal= (help) - Translated from lost Latin text; in Welsh: Brut y Tywysogion
Dimock, James F., ed. (1868). Giraldi Cambrensis opera. Volume 6: Itinerarium Kambriae et Descriptio Kambriae. London: Longman, Green, Reader, and Dyer.
Williams (Ysgafell), Jane (1869). A History of Wales: Derived from Authentic Sources. London: Longmans, Green & Co.
Wilson, John Marius (1872). Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. A. Fullarton & Co.
Phillips, John Roland (1874). Memoirs of the Civil War in Wales and the Marches. Longmans, Green, & Co.
Laws, Edward (1888). The History of Little England Beyond Wales. London: George Bell. - written from the perspective of Little England beyond Wales, i.e. Pembrokeshire and southwest Carmarthenshire, but includes wider areas
Phillimore, Egerton (1888). "The Annales Cambriae and Old Welsh Genealogies, from Harleian MS. 3859". In Phillimore, Egerton (ed.). Y Cymmrodor. Vol. IX. Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion.
Phillimore, Egerton (1891). "Note (a) to The Settlement of Brittany". In Phillimore, Egerton (ed.). Y Cymmrodor. Vol. XI. London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (published 1892).
Meyer, Kuno (1896). "Early Relations Between Gael and Brython". In Evans, E. Vincent (ed.). Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. Session 1895–1896. Vol. I. London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion.

20th century

Baring-Gould, Sabine; Fisher, John (1911). The Lives of the British Saints. Vol. III. London: The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion.
Lloyd, John Edward (1912). A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest (2 ed.). Longmans, Green, and Co. Lloyd history of Wales.
An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire: County of Pembroke. Vol. VII. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. 1925.
Williams, Albert Hughes (1941). Prehistoric Times to 1063. An Introduction to the History of Wales. Vol. I. University of Wales Press.
Reid, Alan (1973). The castles of Wales. G. Philip. ISBN 978-0-540-07052-7.
Laing, Lloyd (1975). "Wales and the Isle of Man". The Archaeology of Late Celtic Britain and Ireland, c. 400–1200 AD. Frome: Book Club Associates / Methuen & Co. (published 1977). ISBN 978-0-416-65970-2.
Morgan, Kenneth O. (1981). Rebirth of a nation: Wales 1880–1980. Oxford University Press, University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821736-7.
Williams, Gwyn A. (1985). When was Wales?: a history of the Welsh. Black Raven Press. ISBN 978-0-85159-003-5.
Cunliffe, Barry (1987). Iron Age communities in Britain (2 ed.). Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 978-1-134-27723-0.
Davies, Rees R. (1987). Conquest, coexistence and change: Wales 1063–1415. Clarendon Press, University of Wales Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198208785.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-821732-9.
Frere, Sheppard Sunderland (1987). "The End of Roman Britain". Britannia: A History of Roman Britain (3rd, revised ed.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 978-0-7102-1215-3.
Jenkins, Geraint Huw (1987). The foundations of modern Wales, 1642–1780. Clarendon Press, University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821734-3.
Williams, Glanmor (1987). Recovery, reorientation and reformation: Wales c.1415–1642. Clarendon Press, University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821733-6.
Jones, Barri; Mattingly, David (1990). "The Economy". An Atlas of Roman Britain. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers (published 2007). ISBN 978-1-84217-067-0.
Laing, Lloyd; Laing, Jennifer (1990). "The non-Romanized zone of Britannia". Celtic Britain and Ireland, c. 200–800: The Myth of the Dark Ages. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-04767-2.
Walker, David (1990). Medieval Wales. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-31153-3.
Maund, K. L. (1991). Ireland, Wales, and England in the Eleventh Century. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. ISBN 978-0-85115-533-3.
Higham, Nicholas (1992). Rome, Britain and the Anglo-Saxons: Britain Without Rome. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-85264-022-4.
Bartrum, Peter (1993). A Welsh Classical Dictionary. National Library of Wales. ISBN 978-0-7083-0561-4.
Davies, John (1994). A History of Wales. Penguin History. ISBN 978-0-14-014581-6. - see also 2007 below
Barrett, John C. (1994). Fragments from Antiquity: An Archaeology of Social Life in Britain, 2900-1200 BC. Oxford and Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-18954-1.
Lynch, Frances (1995). Gwynedd (A guide to ancient and historic Wales series). HM Stationery Office Books. ISBN 978-0-11-701574-6.

21st century

Davies, R. R. (2000). The Age of Conquest: Wales, 1063–1415. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-820878-5.
Lynch, Frances; Aldhouse-Green, Stephen; Davies, Jeffrey L. (2000). Prehistoric Wales. Sutton Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7509-2165-7.
Pettifer, Adrian (August 2000). Welsh Castles: A Guide by Counties (1st ed.). Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 978-0-85115-778-8.
Roberts, Michael; Clarke, Simone (2000). Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1550-7.
Pollard, Joshua (2001). "Wales' Hidden History, Hunter-Gatherer Communities in Wales: The Neolithic". In Morgan, Prys; Aldhouse-Green, Stephen (eds.). History of Wales, 25,000 BC AD 2000. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7524-1983-1.
Remfry, P. M. (2002). A Political Chronology of Wales, 1066 to 1282. SCS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-899376-46-9.
Moore, David (2005). The Welsh wars of independence: c.410-c.1415 (2 ed.). Tempus. ISBN 978-0-7524-3321-9.
Koch, John T. (2006). Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. Vol. 1–5. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-85109-440-0.
Maund, Kari (2006). The Welsh kings: warriors, warlords and princes (3 ed.). Tempus. ISBN 978-0-7524-2973-1.
Davies, John (2007). A History of Wales. Penguin History. ISBN 978-0-14-028475-1.
Jenkins, Geraint H. (2007). A Concise History of Wales. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-82367-8.
Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel; Baines, Menna; Lynch, Peredur I., eds. (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales (1st ed.). Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
Davies, John (2009). The Making of Wales (2 ed.). The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-5241-8.
Williams (Ysgafell), Jane (2010) [1st pub. 1869]. A History of Wales: Derived from Authentic Sources. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-02085-5.
Farmer, David (2011). The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (5th., rev ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-959660-7.
Charles-Edwards, T. (2013). Wales and the Britons, 350–1064. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821731-2.
Davies, Russell (2015). People, Places and Passions:" Pain and Pleasure": A Social History of Wales and the Welsh, 1870–1945. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-1-78316-237-6.
Allen, Grant (2016). Anglo-Saxon Britain. Wentworth Press. ISBN 978-1-360-29010-2.

Online sources

National

Local

Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust
Dyfed Archaeological Trust
Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust
"GGAT 72 Overviews" (PDF). A Report for Cadw by Edith Evans BA PhD MIFA and Richard Lewis BA. Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust. 2003.
Gwynedd Archaeological Trust
G. H. Smith (2008). "Iron Age Settlements in Wales: Cadw Defended Enclosures Publication – Hillforts and Hut Groups in North-West Wales" (PDF). Gwynedd Archaeological Trust.