Gwent Record Office
Serving Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen
The Gwent Record Office was established in 1938 as the Monmouthshire Record Office, serving the ‘old’ county of that name. In 1974, following local government reorganisation, it became the Gwent County Record Office. Further local government changes in 1996 divided the county of Gwent into five unitary authorities. The Gwent Record Office now serves the areas covered by these authorities: Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council, Caerphilly County Borough Council, Monmouthshire County Council, Newport City Council and Torfaen County Borough Council.
Latest News
The Gwent Record Office will be moving to Ebbw Vale in 2011. For further information visit The New Gwent Record Office| page of the website.
Gwent County History
The third volume of the Gwent County History series, The Making of Monmouthshire, 1536-1780, was launched on March 13th 2009 at Pontypool Museum. The volume, edited by Madeleine Gray and Prys Morgan, is published by the University of Wales Press and is available in hardback, price £65.
This book is the authoritative history of Gwent and Monmouthshire, from the creation of the county in Henry VIII's reign to the rise of industrial south Wales in the late eighteenth century, its society, economy, protestant and catholic religion, its major families, the civil war, its Anglo-Welsh culture and the beginnings of tourism.