{"id":497,"date":"2026-11-04T14:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T14:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/?page_id=497"},"modified":"2026-11-04T14:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T14:09:09","slug":"gwent-county-history-volume-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/?page_id=497","title":{"rendered":"Gwent County History Volume 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first volume of the series was published in 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/County-Histories-Vol1-1.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/County-Histories-Vol1-1.pdf\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-513\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volume 1 contains fourteen chapters as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Palaeolithic <em>S. H. R. Aldhouse-Green<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Mesolithic: The Final Hunter-Gatherer-Fisher Societies of South-eastern Wales <em>Elizabeth A. Walker<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Neolithic: The First Farming Societies <em>Rick Peterson and Joshua Pollard<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Bronze Age <em>M. A. Hamilton<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Late Bronze Age Societies (1150 &#8211; 600 BC): Tools and Weapons <em>Adam Gwilt<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Iron Age: Settlement and Material Culture <em>Ray Howell and Joshua Pollard<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Iron Age: Art, Ritual and Society <em>Miranda Aldhouse-Green<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Romans: Conquest and the Army <em>W. H. Manning<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Romans in Gwent <em>Richard J. Brewer<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>From the Fifth to the Seventh Century <em>Ray Howell<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Society and Religion in the Early Middle Ages <em>Jeremy Knight<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Statue and Lordship in the Early Middle Ages <em>David Longley<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Caerleon Restaurata: <\/em>The Narrative World of Early Medieval Gwent <em>Juliette Wood<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Coming of the Normans <em>Michael Davies<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first volume of the series was published in 2004. Volume 1 contains fourteen chapters as follows:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-497","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/497\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}