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Land of My Fathers
First published 1983
Taliesin Roberts comes of age in a Wales divided between industrial wealth and the hardship of the people who produce it. His story moves through copper mining on Anglesey and the great ironworks of Dowlais, bringing family ambition, migration and love into contact with the political agitation of the Chartist years.
Set across the decades from the late 1830s into the mid-Victorian period, the novel shows how demands for political representation persisted beside rapid industrial expansion. Cordell connects workplace discipline and class division to the broader Chartist challenge, while Taliesin’s personal choices reveal the difficulty of escaping the structures that shape his community. The book completes the second Welsh trilogy on a wider geographical canvas.
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