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A Concise History of Wales
Based on the most recent historical research and current debates about Wales and Welshness, this volume offers the most up-to-date, authoritative and accessible account of the period from Neanderthal times to the opening of the Senedd, the new home of the National Assembly for Wales, in 2006. Within a remarkably brief and stimulating compass, Geraint H. Jenkins explores the emergence of Wales as a nation, its changing identities and values, and the transformations its people experienced and survived throughout the centuries. In the face of seemingly overwhelming odds, the Welsh never reconciled themselves to political, social and cultural subordination, and developed ingenious ways of maintaining a distinctive sense of their otherness. The book ends with the coming of political devolution and the emergence of a greater measure of cultural pluralism. Professor Jenkins's lavishly illustrated volume provides enthralling material for scholars, students, general readers, and travellers to Wales.
Yr Elyrch - Dathlu'r 100
Teitl yn y gyfres o gyfrolau byr a chyflym Stori Sydyn. Cyfrol sy'n adrodd hanes rhyfeddol clwb pel-droed Abertawe, a'i daith anhygoel i'r Uwch Gynghrair. Mae'r llyfr yn canolbwyntio'n bennaf ar dymor llwyddiannus 2010-11. Mae'r awdur wedi bod yn gefnogwr triw i'r clwb dros y blynyddoedd.
Cardiganshire County History Volume 2
Cardiganshire County History Volume 2 is published by the University of Wales Press on behalf of the Ceredigion Historical Society, in association with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. This volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative account, written by distinguished authors in fifteen chapters, of the wide range of social, economic, political, religious and cultural forces that shaped the ethos and character of the county of Cardiganshire over a period of 600 years. This was a period of great turbulence and change. It witnessed conquest and castle-building, the impact of the Glyndŵr rebellion, the coming of the Protestant Reformation, and the tur...
Fel Hyn y Bu
Hunangofiant y prifardd o sir Benfro, Eirwyn George. Cyfrol hwyliog a difyr yn olrhain hanes y gŵr diwylliedig a hynaws a fu'n driw i'w fro enedigol yng ngogledd sir Benfro.
The Welsh Language and Its Social Domains, 1801-1911
This volume contains 22 chapters dealing with the status of the Welsh language in a wide range of social domains, including agriculture and industry, education, religion, politics, law and culture.
Bard of Liberty
This is the first full-scale study of the political radicalism of Iolo Morganwg, the renowned Welsh romantic whose colourful life as a Glamorgan stonemason, poet, writer, political activist and humanitarian made him one of the founders of modern Wales . This path-breaking volume offers a vivid portrait of a natural contrarian who tilted against the forces of the establishment for the whole of his adult life. Known as the "Bard of Liberty" or the 'little republican bard', he moved in highly-politicized circles, embraced republicanism, founded the Gorsedd of the Bards of the Isle of Britain, threw in his lot with Unitarians, promoted a sense of cultural nationalism, and supported the anti-slave trade campaign and the anti-war movement during years of war, oppression and cruelty.
A Rattleskull Genius
A volume containing a collection of essays by a wide range of leading scholars, based on the rich unpublished material in the Iolo Morganwg papers at the National Library of Wales; the first volume in an inspiring and interdisciplinary series on the most extraordinary figure in the cultural history of Wales. A hardback version was published in October 2005.
The Coracle
Hanes y cwrwgl a'i gynhyrchwyr; manylion y grefft a lleoedd/digwyddiadau, sy'n arddangos cyryglau. Cynhwysir lluniau. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Sugar and Slate
'It is Williams's Welshness that makes the examination of her mixed-race identity distinctive, but it is the humour, candour and facility of her style that make it exceptional . . . an engaging and perceptive voice describing an engrossing and particular personal story.' – Gary Younge 'In its exploration of geographical, racial and cultural dislocation, Sugar and Slate is in the finest tradition of work to have emerged from the black diaspora in recent times.' – The Guardian 'Within this review, I can only scrape the surface of the many dimensions of Williams' memoir, so I strongly encourage you to read this precious book for yourself, and find those parts of it which speak most to you.'...
Print and the Celtic Languages
This book is a study of the print cultures of the four principal Celtic languages — Irish, Welsh, Gaelic and Breton — in the crucial period between 1700 and 1900. Over the past four centuries, the Celtic languages of northwest Europe have followed contrasting paths of maintenance and decline. This was despite their common lack of official recognition and use, and their common distance from the centres of political power. This volume analyses publishing, circulation and reading in the four languages, particularly at a popular level, showing the different levels of overall activity as well as the distinctions in the types of printed texts between regions. The approach is a broad one, considering all printed books down to very small cheap formats. It explores the interactions between the different regions and the continuation of print culture within diasporic communities. This volume will appeal to book historians, to scholars of the four languages and their literature, and to students of Celtic studies.
