Rugby Football in Nineteenth-Century Cardiff and South Wales – ‘This Rugby Spellbound People’

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In this, the first detailed and original historical study of rugby union at a local level in Wales, Gwyn Prescott draws on previously unused sources to provide fresh insights into the origins and early years of the game in Wales. It also throws new light both on the significance of Cardiff to Welsh rugby in the nineteenth-century and on the importance of rugby in Cardiff.

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Dyma’r astudiaeth wreiddiol gyntaf o rygbi’r undeb ar lefel leol yng Nghymru. Mae’r awdur, Gwyn Prescott, trwy gyfrwng ffynonellau newydd nas defnyddiwyd o’r blaen, yn cynnig golwg ffres ar ddechreuadau’r gêm yng Nghymru. Mae hefyd yn taflu goleuni newydd ar arwyddocâd Caerdydd i rygbi Cymu yn y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg, ac ar bwysigrwydd rygbi i’r ddinas honno.
In this, the first detailed and original historical study of rugby union at a local level in Wales, Gwyn Prescott draws on previously unused sources to provide fresh insights into the origins and early years of the game in Wales. It also throws new light both on the significance of Cardiff to Welsh rugby in the nineteenth-century and on the importance of rugby in Cardiff.