{"id":786,"date":"2026-11-08T14:45:29","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T14:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/?page_id=786"},"modified":"2026-11-08T14:45:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T14:45:29","slug":"issue-104-2008-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/?page_id=786","title":{"rendered":"Issue 104 2008 (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/2008_1.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:880px\" aria-label=\"Embed of 2008_1.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-614632c8-3b57-424a-bdfa-159f8dd76426\" href=\"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/2008_1.pdf\">2008_1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/2008_1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-614632c8-3b57-424a-bdfa-159f8dd76426\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obituary: Andrew Geoffrey Mein <em>Bob Trett<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obituary: Minnie Louisa Gibbins <em>Frances Griffiths<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trostrey Excavations: A Picture Essay in Memory of Geoff Mein <em>Ron Takel<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Navigation of the River Wye to Chepstow in 1807 <em>Peter Morgan Jones<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friendly Societies in Ebbw Vale <em>Keith Thomas<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opening Night at the Theatre Royal, Newport <em>Wendy Taylor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heroes of the Great War at St Michael and All Angels Church, Llantarnam <em>Ray Westlake<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Letter: Monmouthshire and the 1972 Local &nbsp; Government Act <em>W Elwyn Jones<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Letter: Further Notes on the Place Name Risca <em>Graham O Osborne<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Book Review: Imagining Roman Britain <em>Ray Howel<\/em>l<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contents Obituary: Andrew Geoffrey Mein Bob Trett Obituary: Minnie Louisa Gibbins Frances Griffiths Trostrey Excavations: A Picture Essay in Memory of Geoff Mein Ron Takel A Navigation of the River Wye to Chepstow in 1807 Peter Morgan Jones Friendly Societies in Ebbw Vale Keith Thomas Opening Night at the Theatre Royal, Newport Wendy Taylor Heroes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/?page_id=786\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Issue 104 2008 (1)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-786","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/786","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=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/786\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}