Rugby Football in Nineteenth-Century Cardiff and South Wales – ‘This Rugby Spellbound People’

Description

In this, the first detailed and original historical study of rugby union at a local level in Wales, Gwyn Prescott draws on previously unused sources to provide fresh insights into the origins and early years of the game in Wales. It also throws new light both on the significance of Cardiff to Welsh rugby in the nineteenth-century and on the importance of rugby in Cardiff.