~ Introduction
~ Quotations
~ 19th Century Chronology
~ Project Document
~ Project Summary
~ Bibliographic Sources

"[NSTC's] weaknesses will be obvious. The many thousands of books and pamphlets that escaped the copyright libraries in the nineteenth century, but which survive today in local collections are ignored. Wales and Welsh speaking colonies are under represented..."
(McKitterick,D. 'A disk too soon'. T.L.S., 1997, July 4th., p.11).

"The history of the book in Wales in the nineteenth century is the history of society and of the changing mental and spiritual culture of the people in Wales in that century".
(Jones. I.G. 'The nineteenth century', chapter 13, IN Jones,P.H. & Rees,E. (eds.) A nation and its books: a history of the book in Wales. National library of Wales, 1998, p.157).

"The project will enhance access to an important body of scarce material which lacks adequate bibliographic control and is highly dispersed. This will be achieved by a targetted 22 month programme of retrospective catalogue upgrading and conversion of printed material relating to Wales published in the period 1801-1919 and held by parcipating HEIs".
(Wales 1801-1919: the final piece in the UK/Ireland geographical jigsaw. A proposal ... to the Research Support Libraries Programme. [University of Wales Bangor], May 2000.)