University Of Wales Press: 420 books
The Elect Methodists
Calvinistic Methodism in England and Wales, 1735-1811
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
The Elect Methodists is the first full-length academic study of Calvinistic Methodism, a movement that emerged in the eighteenth century as an alternative to the better known Wesleyan grouping. While the branch of Methodism led by John Wesley has received significant historical attention, Calvinistic...
Investigating Language Attitudes
Social Meanings of Dialect, Ethnicity and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2003
This is a systematic and critical appraisal of the variety of ways in which people's attitudes to language have been researched internationally over recent decades. The authors explain this complex field through clear reviews and commentary on previous work, while also offering a demonstration of...
by Marion Löffler
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Pamphleteering was a vital component of the popular political discussion opened up by the French Revolution of 1789, but while the English pamphlet wars have been exhaustively explored, Welsh pamphlet literature has been ignored. During the fifteen years following the French Revolution of 1789, over...
R.S. Thomas
Serial Obsessive
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Published to mark the centenary of the sometime ‘ogre of Wales’, this volume (by the executor of his unpublished literary estate) deals with the idées fixes that serially possessed his fiercely intense imagination: Iago Prytherch, Wales, his family, and of course a vexingly elusive Deity. Here,...
Transforming Childcare and Listening to Families
Policy in Wales and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
This book draws on original research to consider the connections between childcare, family lives and social policy. The research, located in Wales in the period following devolution, concerns the capacity of policy to enhance family well-being. In interviews with mothers and fathers of young children,...
Mothers, Wives and Changing Lives
Women in Mid-Twentieth Century Rural Wales
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
The role of women in the recent history of Wales is an area that has received scant attention from social scientists and historians. This book will therefore seek to fill that gap by drawing upon the family stories told about women's roles in education, the chapel and the family to address some of the important gaps in the knowledge base.
by Tony Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
At his death in 2000, R. S. Thomas was widely considered to be one of the major poets of the English-speaking world, having been nominated for the Nobel prize for Literature. With Dylan Thomas, R. S. Thomas is probably Wales’s best-known poet internationally.Tony Brown provides an introduction to...
These Poor Hands
The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2002
These Poor Hands: The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales', was first published in June 1939. It was an instant bestseller, and its fame catapulted its author into the front rank of 'proletarian writers'. B. L. Coombes, an English-born migrant, had lived in the Vale of Neath since before...
The Women and Men of 1926
A Gender and Social History of the General Strike and Miners' Lockout in South Wales
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Work on the miners' Lock-Out of 1926 tends to focus on the perspective of the National Union of Mineworkers, while nothing has been written which attempts to examine, for example, how miner's wives coped for six months without pay. "The Women and Men of 1926" investigates the Lock-Out from the perspective...
Revolution to Devolution
Reflections on Welsh Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This is an integrated range of studies focusing on Wales by a long-established and internationally-recognised academic authority and member of the House of Lords on the advance of democracy and the evolving idea of national identity in modern Britain. It casts back to the impact of change in Europe...
Robert Recorde
Tudor Scholar and Mathematician
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
This enthralling biography tells, for the first time, the complete story of one of Tudor England’s most enigmatic figures. A Welshman born in Tenby, south Wales, c.1512, Robert Recorde was educated at both Oxford and Cambridge. This book, the first detailed biography of this Tudor scholar, reviews...
Our Mothers' Land
Chapters in Welsh Women's History, 1830-1939
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
This volume marks the twentieth anniversary of the first publication of this groundbreaking book. It reflects the pioneering research of its contributors to the development of modern Welsh women’s history. The eight chapters range widely across time (1830-1939) and place, from exploring working...
by Emyr Humphreys
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Shards of Light is a collection of previously unpublished poems by Emyr Humphreys. Now in his hundredth year, he has been described as Wales’s foremost novelist of his generation. This newly discovered collection of poems has all the sharpness and incisiveness of thought as if they had been written...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Now republished with minor corrections, this volume provides the first comprehensive collection of charters, letters and other documents issued by native rulers of Wales from the early twelfth century to the Edwardian conquest of 1282–3 that extinguished independent rule. It thereby makes more accessible...