University Of Wales Press: 420 books
Kenneth O. Morgan
My Histories
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
This is the story of the life, professional achievements and personal background, challenges and achievements of Wales’s leading historian. During his long career, Kenneth O. Morgan has been a prolific writer and, through his pioneering work, has become a leading authority on Welsh History, British...
Whose People?
Wales, Israel, Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Wales has a centuries-long history of interest in Palestine and Israel, and a particularly close interest in Jews and Zionism, which has been expressed widely in the literature. Whose People? Wales, Israel, Palestine is the first monograph to explore this subject. It asks difficult and probing questions...
by Dafydd R. Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
A concise and authoritative survey of the Welsh- and English-language literatures of Wales from the earliest period up to the present day. This illustrated guide, containing extracts from original texts with English translations, is a revised version of Professor Dafydd Johnston’s volume in the...
Environmental Law and Policy in Wales
Responding to Local and Global Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
This book is a collective academic response from environmental law scholars sharing an interest in Welsh perspectives on today’s local and global environmental challenges. The editors brought colleagues together at a ground-breaking colloquium at Swansea University in April 2011, seeking to foster...
The Nations of Wales
1890-1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Certain simple and stereotypical images of Wales strike an immediate chord with the public, both in Wales itself and beyond its borders. For much of the twentieth century, the country was thought of as ‘The Valleys’, a land of miners and choirs and rugby clubs. This image of a ‘Proletarian Wales’...
by David Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
As we progress into the twenty-first century, Wales is acquiring a new identity and greater legislative autonomy. The National Assembly and the Welsh Government have power to create laws specifically for Wales. In parallel, the judicial system in Wales is acquiring greater autonomy in its ability...
Rural Wales in the Twenty-First Century
Society, Economy and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
The book explores the complex and shifting geographies of rural Wales in the twenty first century. It draws on a broad range of recent academic and policy research to provide the most comprehensive and critical account of the spaces, places and environments of rural Wales to date. The book highlights...
Queer Wales
The History, Culture and Politics of Queer Life in Wales
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
This book provides varied perspectives on queer history, culture, politics and life in Wales. It addresses the queering of the Welsh language in examples from the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, acquainting readers with such figures as Felicia Hemans, George Powell, and Edward Thomas; and it...
Our Changing Land
Revisiting Gender, Class and Identity in Contemporary Wales
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
The last two decades have seen big changes within a small nation; the distinctiveness of Wales, in terms of its political life and culture, has grown considerably in that time. This edited collection by a range of eminent Welsh writers, emerging academics and creative artists examines what is distinctive...
by Ralph A. Griffiths, Phillipp R. Schofield
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
This book honours the achievement of J. Beverley Smith during a notable career as a teacher and writer of history, and an editor in the service of his profession. The essays are contributed by fellow historians from across Britain and include some of the country’s outstanding scholars. ‘Wales...
The Principality of Wales in the Later Middle Ages
The Structure and Personnel of Government: South Wales 1277-1536
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This is a study of royal government in the southern counties of the principality of Wales between the beginning of Edward I’s conquest in 1277 and Henry VIII’s ‘act of Union’. This reprinted edition of the book, first published in 1972, includes a new introduction to incorporate recent writings...
by Hywel Teifi Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
The Eisteddfod, first published in 1990 as part of the University of Wales Press’s Writers of Wales series, presents the history of the National Eisteddfod to an English-speaking audience. Hywel Teifi Edwards (1934–2010), author, historian and broadcaster, was a leading authority on the history...
Roald Dahl
Wales of the Unexpected
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Published to mark the centenary of Roald Dahl’s (Welsh) birth, Roald Dahl: Wales of the Unexpected breaks new ground by revealing the place of Wales in the imagination of the writer known as ‘the world’s number one storyteller’. Exploring the complex conditioning presence of Wales in his life...
Wales and the Bomb
The Role of Welsh Scientists and Engineers in the UK Nuclear Programme
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
The main focus of this book is on the contribution of Welsh scientists, engineers and facilities in Wales to the British nuclear programme – especially the military programme – from the Second World War through to the present day. After the war, a number of Welsh scientists at Harwell played an...