Arddangosfa Thomas Pennant Exhibition

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Prys Morgan, The Eighteenth Century Renaissance, (Llandybïe, 1981)

R. Paul Evans, 'Thomas Pennant's writings on North Wales', MA thesis, University of Wales, Swansea, 1985 (thesis 1985/806)

R. Paul Evans, 'The life and work of Thomas Pennant (1726-1798)', PhD thesis, University of Wales, Swansea, 1994 (thesis 1994/746)

R. Paul Evans, 'Thomas Pennant (1726-1798): the father of Cambrian tourists', Welsh History Review, vol. 13, no. 4, (December, 1987), pp. 395-417 (based on the author's MA thesis)

M. Bevan-Evans, 'Thomas Pennant and Downing', in the Flintshire Historical Society Publications, vol. 14, (1953-4), pp. 72-9

Eiluned Rees, 'An introductory survey of 18th century Welsh libraries', in The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, vol. X, no. 4, (June, 1971), pp. 197-258

E. Rees and G. Walters, 'The Library of Thomas Pennant', in The Library. Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, fifth series, vol. XXV, no. 2, (June, 1970), pp. 136-49

Dictionary of Scientific Biography, ed. Charles Coulston Gillispie (New York, 1970-80), 16 vols, vol. X, pp. 509-10

Biographical articles on Pennant and his contemporaries can also be found in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940 and the Dictionary of National Biography. There is no full length biography to date.