University Of Wales Press: 420 books
Carmarthen Castle
The Archaeology of Government
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Carmarthen Castle was one of the largest castles in medieval Wales. It was also one of the most important, in its role as a centre of government and as a Crown possession in a region dominated by Welsh lands and Marcher lordships. Largely demolished during the seventeenth century, it was subsequently...
The History and Architecture of Cardiff Civic Centre
Black Gold, White City
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Cardiff’s civic centre in Cathays Park, described as the finest civic centre in the British Isles, is an impressive planned group of public buildings, begun largely with wealth created by the coal industry in the south Wales coalfield. This book covers the Cardiff site’s earlier evolution as a...
Wales Unchained
Literature, Politics and Identity in the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
In Wales Unchained Daniel G. Williams explores how Welsh writers, politicians and intellectuals have defined themselves – and have been defined by others – since the early twentieth century. Whether by exploring ideas of race in the 1930s or reflecting on the metaphoric uses of boxing, asking...
Labour, Mobility and Temporary Migration
A Comparative Study of Polish Migration to Wales
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Labour, Mobility and Temporary Migration delves into sociological research on Polish migrants who migrated to the lesser-explored South Wales region after Poland joined the European Union in 2004. At the time of enlargement, Polish migrants were characterised as being economically motivated, short-term...
Sex, Sects and Society
'Pain and Pleasure': A Social History of Wales and the Welsh, 1870-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
In an extended account of national identity, this companion volume to People, Places and Passions provides the first detailed study of the sexual and spiritual life of Wales in the period 1870–1945. The author argues that whilst Wales and its people experienced a disenchantment of the spiritual...
Claiming the Streets
Processions and Urban Culture in South Wales, C.1830-1880
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Street processions were a defining feature of life in the Victorian town. They were diverse in character and took place regularly throughout the year in all towns. They provided opportunities for men and women to display themselves in public, carrying banners and flags and accompanied by musical bands....
Between Wales and England
Anglophone Welsh Writing of the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Between Wales and England is an exploration of eighteenth-century anglophone Welsh writing by authors for whom English-language literature was mostly a secondary concern. In its process, the work interrogates these authors’ views on the newly-emerging sense of ‘Britishness’, finding them in...
by Matthew Jarvis
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
This is the first full-length study of the poet Ruth Bidgood, who is best known for her long-term literary engagement with the landscape and communities of the mid-Wales region she has made her home. Considering her entire career to date, this volume provides detailed scrutiny of Bidgood’s poetry...
The Customs and Traditions of Wales
With an Introduction by Emma Lile
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Trefor M. Owen’s seminal work educates, enlightens and entertains with a far-reaching yet accessible text, which paints a colourful and comprehensive portrait of a nation’s rich folk culture. The Customs and Traditions of Wales is an illuminating and engrossing insight into a subject that continues...
by Phyllis Kinney
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Welsh traditional music has, until now, been the 'Cinderella' of world music studies. Over the years, few English-language writers have paid it any attention, largely because the majority of the songs of Wales are in the Welsh language. Now, at last, that gap has been filled by an American. Phyllis...
In the Shadow of the Pulpit
Literature and Nonconformist Wales
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Writer versus preacher: this book shows how this struggle has lain at the heart of Welsh writing and culture for the past two hundred years, intimately shaping the English language literature produced by Wales. Starting with a simple explanation of the history and character of Welsh Nonconformity,...
Urban Assimilation in Post-Conquest Wales
Ethnicity, Gender and Economy in Ruthin, 1282-1348
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
This book uses, principally but not only, a case study of the Denbighshire town of Ruthin to discuss both the significance of Englishness versus Welshness and of gender distinctions in the network of small Anglo-Welsh urban centres which emerged in north Wales following the English conquest of 1282....
The Dialogue of the Government of Wales (1594)
Updated Text and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
This volume is broadly divided into two main sections. The first part comprises a detailed introduction to the background of "The Dialogue", written in 1594 by George Owen of Henllys, north Pembrokeshire, followed by an updated version of the text with explanatory notes. George Owen was the most observant...
by Scott Lloyd
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
This new book examines all of the available source materials, dating from the ninth century to the present, that have associated Arthur with sites in Wales. The material ranges from Medieval Latin chronicles, French romances and Welsh poetry through to the earliest printed works, antiquarian notebooks,...