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A Little Gay History of Wales
A Little Gay History of Wales is the first book-length historical examination of LGBT activism in Wales laying out the campaign for equality in the twentieth century, the campaigns against Section 28, student and community activism, and recent developments such as Stonewall Cymru. It is an example of pioneering archival research, drawing on never-before studied records which charts the lives of ordinary LGBT men and women across Wales. It also features wide-ranging historical analysis stretching from the medieval period through to the modern-day, providing guides to changing language, places where LGBT people met and socialised, and their day-to-day experiences of coming out, threats of persecution, and acceptance.
Labour Country
In this bold, controversial book, Daryl Leeworthy takes a fresh andprovocative look at the struggle through radical political action forsocial democracy in Wales. The reasons for Labour's triumph, heargues, lay in radical pragmatism and an ability to harness loftyideals with meaningful practicality. This was a place of dreamersas well as doers. The world of Arthur Horner and Aneurin Bevan.
Fury of Past Time
'Leeworthy set out to write a biography which fully reflects the complexity of Thomas' life, especially foregrounding 'the political character of Gwyn's character and creative output' but he does so much more, expanding the reader's knowledge by giving us not just the life but also the times... This punchy portrait of a real Welsh literary heavyweight hits home with the brutal realism of Thomas' jabbing prose and mordant wit.' – Jon Gower, Nation.Cymru 'Fury of Past Time is a model of its kind. An immense amount of research has gone into this biography, which will be the standard work on Gwyn Thomas for many years to come. It deserves to be read by those who already admire the fiction and ...
Elaine Morgan
Left wing, working class radical Elaine Morgan was a trailblazing woman writer, especially in tv writing where her credits included 'Lloyd George'. She also wrote about feminism and anthropology, with 'The Descent of Woman' and 'The Aquatic Ape'. This new biography celebrates her achievements and looks at the person behind the writing on her centenary.
Restaging the Past
Restaging the Past is the first edited collection devoted to the study of historical pageants in Britain, ranging from their Edwardian origins to the present day. Across Britain in the twentieth century, people succumbed to ‘pageant fever’. Thousands dressed up in historical costumes and performed scenes from the history of the places where they lived, and hundreds of thousands more watched them. These pageants were one of the most significant aspects of popular engagement with the past between the 1900s and the 1970s: they took place in large cities, small towns and tiny villages, and engaged a whole range of different organised groups, including Women’s Institutes, political parties,...
Between Worlds: A Queer Boy From the Valleys
A man's own story from the Rhondda. Jeffrey Weeks was born in the Rhondda in 1945, of mining stock. As he grew up he increasingly felt an outsider in the intensely community-minded valleys, a feeling intensified as he became aware of his gayness. Escape came through education. He left for London, to university, and to realise his sexuality. From the early 1970s he was actively involved in the new gay liberation movement and became its pioneering historian. This was the beginning of a long career as a researcher and writer on sexuality, with widespread national and international recognition. He has been described as the 'most significant British intellectual working on sexuality to emerge from the radical sexual movements of the 1970s'. His seminal book, Coming Out, a history of LGBT movements and identities since the 19th century, has been in print for forty years. He was awarded the OBE in the Queen's Jubilee Honours in 2012 for his contribution to the social science.
Fields of Play
Wales has a rich and record-making sporting history and also has the sporting landscape to match it. From the famous groudns such as the Arms Park, the Vetch, Stradey Park, the Racecourse, and the Empire Pool to the bastions of High Victorian morality and social order such as Roath Park, and on further into Wales - in the Valleys and the Pit Communities around Wrexham - where playing fields arrived late and came as a result of local communities and local authorities responding to dire economic circumstances and the need to regenerate and rebuild working-class Wales. The Labour Party heralding real change for the pit communities genuinely did transform those communities in a remarkable period between the two world wars by throwing itself into regeneration and community activitism. This book explores these stories and the hopes and aspirations of ordinary communities and an entire nation that were shaped by a set of goal posts. Daryl Leeworthy is a graduate student at Swansea University.
Leisure, Voluntary Action and Social Change in Britain, 1880-1939
In the final decades of the nineteenth century modernizing interpretations of leisure became of interest to social policy makers and cultural critics, producing a discourse of leisure and voluntarism that flourished until the Second World War. The free time of British citizens was increasingly seen as a sphere of social citizenship and community-building. Through major social thinkers, including William Morris, Thomas Hill Green, Bernard Bosanquet and John Hobson, leisure and voluntarism were theorized in terms of the good society. In post-First World War social reconstruction these writers remained influential as leisure became a field of social service, directed towards a new society and w...
Fight and Flight
There is no published collected criticism on Ron Berry. This is a unique selling point. Berry did not receive the critical acclaim he deserved in his lifetime. This is the first attempt to address this apparent neglect. Berry’s work is hugely relevant to the study of modern Wales, as it straddles the industrial and post-industrial period. His environmental writings and concerns were so progressive that they were perhaps wasted upon his original readership.
Stories of Solidarity
A collection of writings and speeches by historian, political activist and former MP Hywel Francis. He celebrates the struggles of the working class of the South Wales Valleys and asks about the continuing relevance of the miners' strikes and the NHS. An essential and inspiring book for all interested in recent Welsh social and general history.
