Biography of Dic Penderyn, hanged for stabbing a soldier after the 1831 Merthyr Rising – a crime later confessed to by someone else – and held as a Welsh Martyr. The book examines his life and background as far as we can now know it, his long-term legacy and role as the first labour martyr.

• Preface
• Introduction
• CHAPTER 1 – Early Years
• CHAPTER 2 – Over to Merthyr
• CHAPTER 3 – Riots and Risings
• CHAPTER 4 – The Trial
• Chapter 5 – Last Days
• CHAPTER 6 – Aftermath
• CHAPTER 7 – Afterlife
• Appendices
  • i ACCOUNTS OF THE EXECUTION
    • a) Revd Edmund Evans’s account of the execution, as given to the biographer of Revd David Williams
    • b) An extract from the biography of Revd Edmund Evans
  • ii ACCOUNT OF THE FUNERAL
  • iii LETTERS TO THE PRESS
    • a) Account of meeting the man who stabbed the soldier (Tarian y Gweithiwr, 31 July 1884)
    • b) Isaac Evans’s letter (Tarian y Gweithiwr, 14 August 1884)
  • iv LEWIS DAVIES, YSTORIAU SILURIA
  • v DIC’S LAST LETTER
• Picture Section
• Bibliography
• Endnotes