This Stolen Land: A People's History of the Gwent Levels

by Marsha O'Mahony

Overview

The Gwent Levels line the north shore of the Severn in South Wales: Cas Gwent (Chepstow) at its head; its more famous cousin, the Somerset Levels, across the water; the Welsh capital, Caerdydd (Cardiff), at its feet. You could waste an hour crossing the Levels by motorway. Or brush aside the journey by train. But writer Marsha O’ Mahony has chosen the slow route of foreshore, footpath, and country lane. Over the course of two years, she meandered from village to village collecting conversations and anecdotes as she went. The result is a remarkable oral history of this unique landscape and the people who live there.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781727690
Publisher:	Seren
Publication date:	09/08/2025
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	142
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Marsha O’ Mahony is a writer, journalist and oral historian from Hereford. Her work includes River Voices an oral history of the river Wye; writing and researching a series of films about Herefordshire (funded by HLF); writing and researching Chewing the Cud, and a documentary about Hereford cathedral. O’ Mahony has also written for The Guardian, BBC Countryfile, Country Life, The Field, This England, Impress Magazine; her Scratch of the Hop social history of hop growing in the West Midlands was published in 2021.