University Of Wales Press: 420 books
After Raymond Williams
Cultural Materialism and the Break-up of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
This volume is not only a detailed look at some of the writing produced in Scotland and Wales in the years surrounding political devolution, it also include a look at the ways in which difference sub-cultural commuities use fiction to renegotiate their relationships with the British whole.
Owain Arwel Hughes
My Life in Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Owain Arwel Hughes, OBE CBE, is one of the world’s foremost conductors. Having recorded and performed with leading orchestras including the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Philharmonic, Philharmonia Halle Orchestra and many throughout Scandinavia, his career of over forty year has seen him...
Black Skin, Blue Books
African Americans and Wales, 1845-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Williams analyses and compares the ways in which African Americans and the Welsh have defined themselves as minorities within larger nation states (the UK and US). The study is grounded in examples of actual friendships and cultural exchanges between African Americans and the Welsh, such as Paul Robeson’s...
by Phil Carradice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Herbert Williams is one of Wales' most celebrated and distinguished writers. A man of many talents, he is a poet, novelist, short story writer and historian. This book provides a critical survey of his life and writing. It is a combination of biography and critical appraisal and the chapters dovetail...
Shipping at Cardiff
Photographs from the Hansen Collection
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
One of the greatest treasures in the archives of the Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum is the Hansen Collection, consisting of over 4500 negatives of shipping taken at Cardiff Docks between 1920 and 1975. Lars Peter Hansen, a native of Copenhagen, settled in Cardiff in 1891 and he and his third...
by Eirene White
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
This is the story of Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, whose grandfather was a millionaire railway contractor and bridge builder, and who inherited half a million pounds each. Unique among their wealthy contemporaries, the two sisters devoted their large fortune to fostering the culture of their native...
Community Organization and Development
from its history towards a model for the future
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
This book traces the development of community development/organization as it evolved separately in Britain and the United States, and how the social and political situations in each country determined the various shapes and directions it took. In presenting a comprehensive history of the subject,...
Life on Mars
From Manchester to New York
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
A hybrid combination of 1970s police series and science fiction time travel, Life on Mars (Kudos/BBC Wales 2006-07) exemplifies the capacity of contemporary British television to find a loyal audience for work that it is innovative and unsettling. The programme rapidly garnered both critical and popular...
by John Morris
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
There is no other inside account from a minister who was at the Cabinet Committee table drafting devolution proposals, first in his role as Welsh Secretary and then as Attorney General. He is one of the very few who served as a minister in four Labour governments under Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan...
Monastic Life in the Medieval British Isles
Essays in Honour of Janet Burton
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
This book celebrates the work and contribution of Professor Janet Burton to medieval monastic studies in Britain. Burton has fundamentally changed approaches to the study of religious foundations in regional contexts (Yorkshire and Wales), placing importance on social networks for monastic structures...
The Welsh Language Commissioner in Context
Roles, Methods and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
This research monograph is the first authoritative work on the office of the Welsh Language Commissioner and the associated Welsh language regulatory and statutory regime. In setting the Commissioner in context – in Wales, the UK and internationally – the work draws upon a rich variety of source...
by Glyn Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
The Island of Apples is a brilliant study of a pre-adolescent boy's romantic imagination and dangerous enthralment, set vividly in the south Wales of Methyr Tydfil and Carmarthen in the early twentieth century
Postcolonialism Revisited
Writing Wales in English
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Postcolonialism Revisited is a ground-breaking book, the first to explore and analyse Anglophone Welsh writing, both literary and otherwise, in the context of contemporary thinking about colonial and post-colonial cultures. Kirsti Bohata considers how far the paradigms of postcolonial theory may be...
Constitutional Reform in Britain and France
From Human Rights to Brexit
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Any attempt at comparing contemporary change in the UK and France is a bold one, since it means discussing two very different countries with strong distinctive constitutional identities. This book places its emphasis on the shared historical, political and cultural background of the UK and France,...