Hundreds of books about Wales' history, culture, folklore, mythology, music, poetry, and more have been published.  Thousands of other volumes address Celtic topics.  The following list contains books that have particular interest to those with East Tennessee Welsh ancestry.

Knoxville and East Tennessee

Cawood, Chris.  Tennessee's Coal Creek War:  Another Fight for Freedom.  Kingston, TN:  Magnolia Hill Press, 1995.  ISBN: 0-964-22310-4.  Click here to view this book at Amazon.com.

Gardiner, John Rolfe.  Great Dream from Heaven.  New York:  E. P. Dutton, 1974.  [This is a novel, set in 1889 in Coal Creek.]  Click here to view this book at Amazon.com.

Hutton, Edith Wilson.  Historic Leach Cemetery, Anderson County, Tennessee:  Tombstone Inscriptions Transcribed and Compiled by Edith Wilson Hutton and Imogene Hall Thacker.  Privately published, 1983.

Knoxville Welsh Society.  Yearbook 1964-65.  Knoxville:  By the Society, 1965.  [Available at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library; call no. E184.W4K5]

McGhee, Marshall, and White, Gene.  Briceville...Through the Years.  Jacksboro, TN:  Action Printing, 1991.  Click here to see if copies are available through Amazon.com.

Rogers, David (comp.).  Reflections in the Water:  Coal Creek to Lake City:  A History of Lake City, Tennessee.  Clinton, TN:  Clinton Courier-News, 1976.

Shepperson, Wilbur S.  Samuel Roberts:  A Welsh Colonizer in Civil War Tennessee.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1961.  Click here to view this book at Amazon.com.

Welsh Colony Papers, 1836-1937.  Manuscript collection, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.  Click here to view Finding Aid for MSS Acc. No. UTK-MS-1813.

Welsh in the United States & Canada

Ashton, Elwyn T.  The Welsh in the United States.  West Sussex, UK:  By the Author, 1984.  Click here to view this book at Amazon.com.

Conway, Alan, ed.  Welsh in America:  Letters from Immigrants.  Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press, 1961.  Click here to view this book at Amazon.com.

Greenslade, David.  Welsh Fever:  Welsh Activities in the United States and Canada Today.  Cowbridge, Wales:  D. Brown & Sons, 1986.  ISBN: 0-905928-56-3.  Click here to view this book at Amazon.com .

Hartmann, Edward G.  Americans from Wales:  A Treasure Chest of Information For People Interested in Their Welsh Heritage.  Boston:  Christopher Publishing House, 1967; New York : Octagon Books, 1978.  Click here to view this book at Amazon.com.

Jones, William.  Wales in America.  Aberystwyth:  University of Wales Press, 1993.  Click here to view this book at Amazon.com.

Lewis, Ronald.  Welsh Americans: A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields.  The University of North Carolina Press, 2008.  ISBN: 0-807832-20-0.  Click here to view this book at Amazon.com.

Thomas, Peter.  Strangers in a Secret Land: The Voyages of the Brig Albion and the Founding of the First Welsh Settlements in Canada.  Toronto, Ontario:  University of Toronto Press, 1986.  Click here to view the paperback edition of this book at Amazon.com (more-expensive hardback editions are also available).

Thomas, Robert David.  Hanes Cymry America:   A History of the Welsh in America.  Phillips G. Davies, Ph.D. (trans.)  Lanham, MD:  University Press of America, 1983.

Wales and the Welsh

Borrow, George.  Wild Wales:  The People, Language & Scenery.  London:  J. Murray, 1862 [several subsequent reprints].  Click here to view all editions available at Amazon.com.  Click here to purchase and download this book to Amazon's Kindle.

Borrow, George, and Clement Shorter.  The Works Of George Borrow: Wild Wales; Cancelled Passages And Other Writings On Wales V14.  Kessinger Publishing, 2007.  ISBN: 1-42549-339-4 (paperback).  Click here to view the paperback edition of this book at Amazon.com.  Hardback edition also available.

Davies, John.  A History of Wales.  New York:  Penguin Publishers, 1995 [paperback edition].  ISBN: 0-14014-581-8.  Click here to view this book at Amazon.com.

Davies, John.  Making of Wales.  Herndon, VA:  Sutton Publishers, 1996 [paperback edition].  ISBN: 0-75092-176-5.  Click here to view the paperback edition of this book at Amazon.com.  [A new hardback edition will is scheduled for August, 2009.]

Davies, Rhys.  My Wales.  London:  Jarrolds Publishers, 1937.  Click here to view this book at Amazon.com.

Llewellyn, Richard.  How Green Was My Valley.  A classic; numerous printings since 1939.  Click here to view all editions of this book at Amazon.com.  Click here to purchase the movie DVD at Amazon.com.

Morris, Jan.  The Matter of Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country.  Oxford, UK:  Oxford University Press, 1984.  ISBN: 0-19-215846-5.  Click here to view this book at Amazon.com.

Owens, Trefor M.  Welsh Folk Customs.  Llandysul, UK:  Gomer Press, 1987 [this is a paperback edition; book was first printed in 1959].  ISBN: 0-86383-347-0.  Click here to view this book at Amazon.com.

Rowlands, John, and Rowlands, Sheila, eds.  Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry.  Baltimore, MD:  Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999.  ISBN: 0-80631-619-5.  Click here to view this book at Amazon.com.

Rowlands, John, and Rowlands, Sheila, eds.  The Surnames of Wales for Family Historians and Others, 2nd ed.  Baltimore, MD:  Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999.  ISBN: 0-80631-516-4.  Click here to view this book at Amazon.com.

Rowlands, John, and Rowlands, Sheila, eds.  Welsh Family History:  A Guide to Research, 3rd ed.   Baltimore, MD:  Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999.  ISBN: 0-80631-620-9 [originally published 1994].  Click here to view this book at Amazon.com.

Vaughan-Thomas, Wynford.  The Countryside Companion.  London:  Hutchinson & Co., 1979.  ISBN: 0-09-139380-9.  Click here to view this book at Amazon.com.

Vaughan-Thomas, Wynford.  Wynford Vaughan-Thomas's Wales.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1981.  ISBN: 0-312-89524-0.  Click here to view this book at Amazon.com.

White, Jon Manchip.  The Journeying Boy: Scenes from a Welsh Childhood.  New York:  Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991; Oak Ridge, TN:  Iris Press, 1998.  ISBN: 0-916-07844-2.  A review of the book is available on this Web site.  Click here to view the book at Amazon.com.

Periodicals

• Ninnau - Welsh-American monthly newspaper; columns on Welsh and Welsh-American culture, vendor ads, book reviews, tourism, excellent calendar of events across North America, much more; has a more up-to-date perspective
• Y Drych - North America's oldest Welsh-American monthly newspaper, published independently from 1851 until it merged with Ninnau; columns on Welsh and Welsh-American culture, vendor ads, book reviews, Welsh language lessons, much more; excellent source for obituaries of 19th Century Welsh immigrants.  Issues available on microfilm.
• Yr Enfys: The Journal of Wales International - published four times a year in Clwyd, Wales; great resource for Welsh expatriates; articles of interest to Welsh-American descendants
• Y Monitor Cymreig - monthly newsletter for North Americans interested in the Welsh language movement; no Web site; mail to 1225 E. Sunset Drive, # 609, Bellingham, WA, 98226.

Recommendations from Other Sites

• Wales on Britannia Reading List
• Welsh Language Reading List
• Welsh Historical & Cultural Reading List