University Of Wales Press: 420 books
by Thomas Glyn Watkin, Daniel Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Prior to the start of the twenty-first century, laws were made for Wales by the Parliament at Westminster. Devolution, and the creation of the National Assembly, has given Wales another legislature that does not replace the UK Parliament but shares in its law-making activity regarding certain subjects....
The First Prince of Wales?
Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, 1063-75
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
This is the first book on one of Wales’s greatest leaders, arguably ‘first prince of Wales’, Bleddyn ap Cynfyn. Bleddyn was at the heart of the tumultuous events that forged Britain in the cauldron of Norman aggression, and his reign offers an important new perspective on the events of 1066...
The Architecture of Wales
From the First to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Architecture reflects not only a nation’s history, but also how its people lived, worked, prayed and fought over the centuries. Since the publication of John B. Hilling’s The Historic Architecture of Wales in 1976, there has been no other attempt at addressing the architecture of Wales as a whole,...
Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales
Nation, Gender, Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
The first volume in the new series Gender Studies in Wales, this book argues that the way in which people came to perceive and to represent themselves as Welsh was profoundly affected by the gender ideologies prevalent during the Romantic and Victorian periods. "Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing...
The Fascist Party in Wales?
Plaid Cymru, Welsh Nationalism and the Accusation of Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
For decades, accusations have been made that senior figures among Welsh nationalists were sympathetic towards Fascism during the 1930s and the Second World War – such accusations that would sully the name of any political adversary. In this challenging work, Wales’s most prominent political commentator...
Monastic Wales
New Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Monastic Wales – new approaches is an interdisciplinary collection of essays written by some of the leading scholars working on aspects of medieval Welsh history. The chapters in this volume consider the history, archaeology, architecture and wider cultural, social, political and economic context...
Petticoat Heroes
Gender, Culture and Popular Protest in the Rebecca Riots
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
The wave of unrest which took place in 1840s Wales, known as ‘Rebeccaism’ or ‘the Rebecca riots’, stands out as a success story within the generally gloomy annals of popular struggle and defeat. The story is remembered in vivid and compelling images: attacks on tollgates and other symbols...
From Ship's Cook to Baronet
Sir William Reardon Smith's Life in Shipping, 1856-1935
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Sir William Reardon Smith (1856-1935) was one of the foremost figures in south Wales in the early twentieth century. His was a classic story of ‘rags to riches’ - starting life as a deck-hand and ship’s cook sailing from his native Appledore in 1870, he was a master mariner at the age of twenty-two...
People, Places and Passions
A Social History of Wales and the Welsh 18701948 Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
The first of two volumes on the social history of Wales in the period 1870–1948, People, Places and Passions concentrates on the social events and changes which created and forged Wales into the mid-twentieth century. This volume considers a range of social changes little considered elsewhere by...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
This book explains the background to and effect of the law passed by the National Assembly of Wales, giving general effect to the UNCRC in the exercise of governmental powers, both in terms of furtherance of children’s rights in Wales and in terms of its implications for multi-level governance spanning...
Wales and Socialism
Political Culture and National Identity Before the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
This study examines the spread of socialism in late-Victorian and Edwardian Wales, paying particular attention to the relationship between socialism and Welsh national identity. Welsh opponents of socialism often claimed it to be a foreign import, whereas socialists often asserted that the Welsh were...
From Depression to Devolution
Economy and Government in Wales, 1934-2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Throughout the twentieth century, Wales underwent rapid and far-reaching economic upheavals on such a scale that few avoided their impacts – from recessions, war, changing fortunes within the iconic steel and coal industries, the rise and decline of manufacturing, as well as the gradual rise to...
by Ryland Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
An organized women’s suffrage movement operated continuously in Britain for more than sixty years, from the mid 1860s until the achievement of equal voting rights with men in 1928. In the decade prior to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, both militant suffragettes and law-abiding suffragists...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book offers a unique understanding of what administrative justice means in Wales and for Wales, whilst also providing an expert and timely analysis of comparative developments in law and administration. It includes critical analysis of distinctly Welsh administrative laws and redress measures,...