Royal Commission Books
The Royal Commission has published the results of its investigations since 1910. In publishing an interpretation of the results of its fieldwork, the Royal Commission aims to further knowledge and understanding of the historic environment and keep the public informed about its work. Below we list all the Royal Commission’s publications since 1910.
Inventories
From 1908 to 2000 the principal publications of the Royal Commission were the county Inventories, descriptions and illustrations of different classes of monument, organised first parish by parish, and later by monument types according to period. The Inventories can be divided into two groups: the ‘old-style’ and the ‘new style’. The former were compiled in accordance with the principals of late-Victorian antiquarianism; the latter in accordance with the ideas and knowledge generated by the emerging science of archaeology.
The old-style Inventories comprised:
I Montgomery (1911)
II Flint (1912)
III Radnor (1913)
IV Denbigh (1914)
V Carmarthen (1917)
VI Merioneth (1921)
VII Pembroke (1925)
The new-style Inventories comprised:
Anglesey (1937)
Caernarvonshire I (1956)
Caernarvonshire II (1960)
Caernarvonshire III (1964)
Glamorgan I: Pre-Norman in 3 parts (1976)
Glamorgan III, Medieval Secular Monuments, pt. Ia, The Early Castles (1991)
Glamorgan III, Medieval Secular Monuments, pt. Ib, The Later Castles (2000)
Glamorgan III, Medieval Secular Monuments, pt. II, Non-defensive (1982)
Glamorgan IV, Domestic Architecture, pt. I, The Greater Houses (1981)
Glamorgan IV, Domestic Architecture, pt. II, Farmhouses and Cottages (1988)
Brecknock, The Prehistoric and Roman Monuments, pt. i (1997)
Brecknock, The Prehistoric and Roman Monuments, pt. ii (1986)
From the mid-1970s the Royal Commission has produced a variety of other publications covering all periods and a wide range of monument type.
Books
P. Smith, Houses of the Welsh Countryside (1975; 2nd ed. 1988)
S. Hughes, The Archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal (1988)
S. Hughes, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of an Early Railway System: The Brecon Forest Tramroads (1990)
D. Hague, Lighthouses of Wales (1994)
S. Hughes, B. Malaws, M. Parry & P. Wakelin, Collieries of Wales (1994)
C. Musson, Wales from the Air (1994)
D. Leighton, Mynydd Du and Fforest Fawr (1997)
S. Hughes, Copperopolis (2000; repr. 2005)
D. M. Browne & T. G. Driver, Bryngaer Pendinas Hillfort (2001)
D. M. Browne & S. R. Hughes, The Archaeology of the Welsh Uplands (2003)
R. F. Suggett, Houses and History in the March of Wales: Radnorshire 1400-1800 (2005)
S. R. Hughes, Thomas Thomas: the first national architect of Wales (2006)
Booklets
RCAHMW Staff, Llantwit Major and Cowbridge (1989)
S. Hughes & P. Reynolds, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of the Swansea Region (1992)
D. Browne, D. Percival & A. Parkinson, Newport Castle (1992)
D. Browne & T. Driver, Bryngaer Pen Dinas Hill-fort (2001)
A. Saunders, C. Spurgeon, H. Thomas & D. Roberts, Guns Across the Severn (2001)
Collaborative Books
with the Friends of Brecon Cathedral, The Cathedral Church of St John the Evangelist, Brecon (1994)
with the National Library of Wales, R. Suggett, John Nash-Architect in Wales (1995)
with Snowdonia National Park Authority, P. Crew & C. Musson, Snowdonia from the Air (1996)
with the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society: J. Davies & D. Kirby (eds.), Cardiganshire County History I, From the Earliest Times to the Coming of the Normans (1994)
G. Jenkins & I. Jones, Cardiganshire County History III, Cardiganshire in Modern Times (1998)
In addition to the above the Royal Commission has issued leaflets and pamphlets explaining the work of the National Monuments Record of Wales and various projects such as chapel recording and the Uplands Archaeology Initiative.