1st Edition

The Welsh in their History

By Gwyn A. Williams Copyright 1982
    218 Pages
    by Routledge

    218 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book, first published in 1982, is a sequence of interrelated essays and aims to redirect attention to some critical moments in Welsh history from Roman times to the present. Each of the essays breaks new ground, argues for a new approach or opens a new discourse.

    1. Welsh Wizard and British Empire: Dr John Dee and a Welsh Identity  2. Druids and Democrats: Organic Intellectuals and the First Welsh Nation  3. Locating a Welsh Working Class: the Frontier Years  4. The Merthyr Election of 1835  5. Dic Penderyn: Myth, Martyr and Memory in the Welsh Working Class  6. Ambiguous Hero: Hugh Owen and Liberal Wales  7. Imperial South Wales  8. When Was Wales?

    Biography

    Gwyn A. Williams