University of Wales Press, 2017. — 192 p. This pocket guidebook tells the story of the very earliest days of Wales, tracing the development of its Celtic culture and peoples from the Iron Age through to its arrival as an independent nation in medieval times. Written to be accessible and interesting to the nonspecialist, the book draws on archaeology, literature, and history to...
Princeton University Press, 2004. — 176 p. Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him dead. But was he dead? While no less than nine eyewitnesses attested to his demise, Cragh later proved to be very much alive, his...
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1966. — x + 228 p. Peter Clement Bartrum (1907-2008) made a systematic study of all the earliest manuscripts dealing with legendary and heroic pedigrees, comparing and editing the texts, learning to read Welsh. This led to a series of articles (1950-62), which were to form the basis of his important book Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts (EWGT,...
Manchester University Press, 2012. — 216 p. This unique collection of essays is the first book to explore the many relationships that developed between Wales and the British overseas empire between 1650 and 1830. Written by leading specialists in the field, the essays explore economic, social, cultural, political, and religious interactions between Wales and the empire. The...
The History Press, 2014. — 224 p. The earliest prehistoric burial in Europe was found in Wales. The skeleton was known as the 'Red Lady of Paviland' – well, until scientists discovered that it had, in fact, belonged to a man. 'Rhodri the Great', Wales' first king, was killed by a Saxon army. The second King of Wales was killed by his own men. English armies usually contained...
University of Wales Press, 2017. — 239 p. Written as an act of protest in a Welsh-speaking community in north-west Wales, Why Wales Never Was combines a devastating analysis of the historical failure of Welsh nationalism with an apocalyptic vision of a non-Welsh future. It is the ‘progressive’ nature of Welsh politics and the ‘empire of the civic’, which rejects both language...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 816 p. 28 maps and 7 black and white images. — (The Oxford History of Wales, Vol. 1).
This is a history of the Welsh in the centuries in which Wales acquired the shape it was to retain until the present day. In 350 what is now Wales was just one part of Roman Britain: contemporaries had no notion of Wales or the Welsh in the later-medieval or...
University of Wales Press, 2002. — 614 p. Aptly edited by the collective efforts of T.M. Charles-Edwards, Morfydd M. Owen, and Paul Russell, The Welsh King And His Court is a massive compendium of essays filled with meticulous discourse of the Welsh royal household and the governmental roles of those officers charged with upkeep of horses, sleeping quarters, meals, etc. Primary...
Boydell Press, 2021. — 284 p. In Royalism, Religion and Revolution: Wales, 1640-1688 , Sarah Ward Clavier provides a ground-breaking analysis of the role of long-term continuities in the political and religious culture of Wales from the eve of the Civil War in 1640 to the Glorious Revolution. A final chapter also extends the narrative to the Hanoverian succession. The book...
Boydell Press, 2021. — 284 p. In Royalism, Religion and Revolution: Wales, 1640-1688 , Sarah Ward Clavier provides a ground-breaking analysis of the role of long-term continuities in the political and religious culture of Wales from the eve of the Civil War in 1640 to the Glorious Revolution. A final chapter also extends the narrative to the Hanoverian succession. The book...
Boydell Press, 2021. — 284 p. In Royalism, Religion and Revolution: Wales, 1640-1688, Sarah Ward Clavier provides a ground-breaking analysis of the role of long-term continuities in the political and religious culture of Wales from the eve of the Civil War in 1640 to the Glorious Revolution. A final chapter also extends the narrative to the Hanoverian succession. The book...
Penguin Books, 2007. — 1711 p. — ISBN: 978-0-14-192633-9 Stretching from the Ice Ages to the present day, this masterful account traces the political, social and cultural history of the land that has come to be called Wales. Spanning prehistoric hill forts and Roman ruins to the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution and the series of strikes by Welsh miners in the late...
Oxford University Press, 1987. — 545 p. — (Oxford History of Wales 2). This classic study examines the period when Wales struggled to retain its independence and identity in the face of Anglo-Norman conquest and subsequent English rule. Professor Davies explores the nature of power and conflict within native Welsh society as well as the transformation of Wales under the English...
University of Wales Press, 2005. — 559 p. A radically unorthodox portrait of the lives of the Welsh is offered in this social history of Wales from 1789–1870. A large range of social subjects—rich landlords in the south, poor peasants in the north, and such unspeakable persons as bastard children and wizards—are discussed along with engrossing analyses of such unusual...
University of Wales Press, 2015. — 448 p. The first of two volumes on the social history of Wales in the period 1870–1948, People, Places and Passions concentrates on the social events and changes which created and forged Wales into the mid-twentieth century. This volume considers a range of social changes little considered elsewhere by studies in Welsh history, accounting for...
University of Wales Press, 2018. — 448 p. In an extended account of national identity, this second volume of Pain and Pleasure provides the first detailed study of the sexual and spiritual life of Wales in the period 1870–1945. Russell Davies argues that although Wales and its people experienced a disenchantment of the spiritual world during this time, a sexual revolution also...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 264 p. In 1277, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Gwynedd, met with Edward I of England in Aberconwy to finalise a treaty that would change the fate of both nations. His hand forced by Edward’s invasion earlier that year, Llywelyn’s acceptance of the terms confirmed not only short-term peace but also that the rule of Wales would pass to Edward on...
The History Press, 2011. — 208 р. Welsh genealogy is usually included with its English cousin, but there are significant differences between the two, and anyone wishing to trace their Welsh ancestry will encounter peculiarities that are not covered by books on English family history. There is a separate system of archives and repositories for Wales, there are differences in...
University of Wales Press, 2019. — 288 p. This book provides the first thorough analysis of the extent of the opposition to World War I in Wales and the most extensive regional study of the antiwar movement in any part of Britain. Aled Eirug focuses on the two main elements of the antiwar movement: the religious opposition on grounds of pacifism and the role of the Fellowship...
University of Wales Press, 2010. — 159 p. Atlantic slavery does not loom large in the traditional telling of Welsh history. Yet Wales, like many regions of Europe, was deeply affected by the forced migration of captive Africans. Welsh commodities, like copper and brass made in Swansea, were used to purchase slaves on the African coast and some Welsh products, such as woollens...
Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2000. 318 p. ISBN: 0–7083–1594–1; 0–7083–1553–4 [Welsh history text books – Vol.4]. A History of Wales, 1906-2000 is the fourth volume in a series beginning in 1485. This invaluable survey examines the main economic, social, political and cultural developments of hte last century in Wales. Wales has undergone sweeping changes during the...
Ashgate Publishing, 2014. — 390 p. This is the first volume to examine how the history of Wales was written in a period that saw the emergence of professional historiography, largely focused on the nation, across Europe and in the United States. It thus sets Wales in the context of recent work on national history writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and, more...
Dolgellau, 1977. Yn 1979, yn sgil methiant yn y refferwndwm gyntaf dros datganoli, cohoeddwyd y pamffled Sosialaeth i’r Cymry gan Robert Griffiths a Gareth Miles. Maent yn cynnig dadansoddiad materolaidd o hanes Cymru a rhaglen i cyfuno cenedlaetholdeb Cymreig a sosialaeth rhyngwladol. Ffurfiwyd y Mudiad Sosialaidd Gweriniaethol Cymru o ganlyniad i’w ddadansoddiad.
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 345 p. 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...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 345 p. 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...
Routledge, 2014. — 464 p. Rich in detail but vigorous, authoritative and unsentimental, A History of Modern Wales is a comprehensive and unromanticised examination of Wales as it was and is. It stresses both the long-term continuities in Welsh long and hard history, and also the significant regional differences within the principality.
Macmillan Education, 1994. — 285 p. Social and Economic Foundations. The Tudor Settlement, 1534–1543. Law, Order and Government. Religion and Society. Politics and Faction.
University of Wales Press, 2018. — 304 p. This book explores the relationship between the justice system and local society at a time after the Industrial Revolution had changed the characteristics of mid Wales. The book investigates the Welsh nineteenth-century experiences of both the high-born and the low within the context of law enforcement, and probes the motivations for...
University of Wales Press, 2015. — 350 p. Brut y Tywysogion, or The Chronicle of the Princes, has long been recognized as one of the most important primary sources for the history of medieval Wales and perhaps the greatest example of medieval Welsh historiography—one that provides important contemporary details about events in England and elsewhere. The chronicle covers the...
University of Wales Press, 2014. — 352 p. The French Revolution initiated a wave of radicalism throughout Europe, and in Wales during the late eighteenth century this radicalism found expression not only in the establishment of radical periodicals and poetic contests but also in the publication of radical pamphlets and sermons in both Welsh and English. This book analyzes the...
Cardiff, 1979. — 32 p. Майлс Гэрет, Гриффитс Роберт. Социализм для валлийского народа (на англ. яз.) The Marxist Interpretation of History. The Feudal Order. Capitalists, English and Anglicized. The Welsh Elite. Wales and the British Labour Movement. The Working Class and Independence. The Socialist Road for Wales. A Welsh Socialist Republican Movement.
University of Wales Press, 2012. — 254 p. Intelligent Town is the first full-length study of Swansea’s urban development from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Louise Miskell tells the little-known story of how Swansea gained an unrivaled position of influence as an urban center—which led to its brief claim as the “metropolis of Wales,” and how it then lost...
Routledge, 2020. — 274 p. This is the first-ever book to explore illegitimacy in Wales during the eighteenth century. Drawing on previously overlooked archival sources, it examines the scope and context of Welsh illegitimacy, and the link between illegitimacy, courtship and economic precarity. It also goes beyond courtship to consider the different identities and relationships...
University of Wales Press, 2000. — 340 p. Immigration and Integration: The Irish in Wales, 1798-1922 is the first book-length study of the Irish in modern Wales. Emigration has been one of the defining experiences of modern life for the Irish, and a significant number of the Irish diaspora settled in Wales during the nineteenth century. In this pioneering work Paul O'Leary...
University of Wales Press, 2004. — 272 p. This work addresses the persistent resonance of the Spanish Civil War in Welsh culture. Analyzing the Welsh people's ideological, political, and culture experience with the war, this study reevaluates previously acknowledged truths about the relationship between Wales and Republican Spain, particularly the widely received notion that...
Translated by Sioned Davies. — Oxford University Press, 2007. — 336 p. Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history–these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous authors of the eleven tales that make up the Welsh medieval masterpiece known as the Mabinogion. They tell of Gwydion the shape-shifter, who can create a woman...
I.B. Tauris, 2011. — 275 p. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries revolutionary dissent, political upheaval and social protest spread throughout Europe -- and Wales was no exception. In this unique examination of British social history, J.E. Thomas focuses upon the power of the local gentry in Wales, and their relationship with the poor and potentially revolutionary...
Routledge, 2021. — 270 p. First published in 1984, this book provides the first full study of the carefully planned rising of south Wales miners and ironworkers in 1839 and of its collapse at the confrontation with soldiers of the 45th regiment of Newport. It examines not only the rising itself, but the factors that made it, if not inevitable, then likely. It argues that while...
Cardiff: Cardiff University, 2011. — 318 p. Райт Мартин. Уэльс и социализм: политическая культура и национальная идентичность в период 1880-1914 гг. (на англ. яз.) This thesis examines the spread of socialist ideas and the growth of the socialist movement in Wales in the period 1880-1914. It pays particular attention to the way in which socialists related to Welsh national...
Перевод с английского, сост. и коммент. С. Шабалова. — М.; СПб.: Летний сад, 2005. — 208 с. — (Anima Celtica; 4) — ISBN 5-94381-093-5 Четвертая книга из нашей серии «Anima Celtica» посвящена бриттам и их потомкам — народу Уэлса. Она представляет разноязыкие и разновременные источники — хроники, сказания и поэмы,— которые питаются древней бриттской традицией. Оригинальный подбор...
Учебное пособие. — Екатеринбург: УрГПУ, 2023. — 266 С. — Текст электронный. Учебное пособие посвящено истории и культуре Уэльса - одного из кельтских регионов Соединенного Королевства Великобритании и Северной Ирландии. Исторический опыт валлийцев уникален и интересен тем, что, несмотря на проводимую на протяжении многих веков английской короной ассимиляционную политику, они...
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