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Writing Welsh History

From the Early Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century

By: Huw Pryce

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Writing Welsh History

From the Early Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century

By: Huw Pryce

The first book to explore how the history of Wales and the Welsh has been written over the past fifteen hundred years, 'Writing Welsh History' analyses and contextualizes historical writing, from Gildas in the sixth century to recent global approaches, to open new perspectives both on the history of Wales and on understandings of Wales and the Welsh.

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Oxford University Press

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0198746032

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Writing Welsh History

From the Early Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century

By: Huw Pryce

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Writing Welsh History

From the Early Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century

By: Huw Pryce

Writing Welsh History is the first book to explore how the history of Wales and the Welsh has been written over the past fifteen hundred years. By analysing and contextualizing a wide range of historical writing, from Gildas in the sixth century to recent global approaches, it opens new perspectives both on the history of Wales and on understandings of Wales and the Welsh - and thus on the use of the past to articulate national and other identities. The study's broad chronological scope serves to highlight important continuities in interpretations of Welsh history. One enduring preoccupation is Wales's place in Britain. Down to the twentieth century it was widely held that the Welsh were an ancient people descended from the original inhabitants of Britain whose history in its fullest sense ended with Edward I's conquest of Wales in 1282-4, their history thereafter being regarded as an attenuated appendix. However, Huw Pryce shows that such master narratives, based on medieval sources and focused primarily on the period down to 1282, were part of a much larger and more varied historiographical landscape. Over the past century the thematic and chronological range of Welsh history writing has expanded significantly, notably in the unprecedented attention given to the modern period, reflecting broader trends in an increasingly internationalized historical profession as well as the influence of social, economic, and political developments in Wales and elsewhere.

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Oxford University Press

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0192692321

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9780192692320

J. E. Lloyd and the Creation of Welsh History

Renewing a Nation's Past

By: Huw Pryce

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J. E. Lloyd and the Creation of Welsh History

Renewing a Nation's Past

By: Huw Pryce

This is the first intellectual biography of John Edward Lloyd (1861–1947), widely regarded as the founder of the modern academic study of Welsh history. Indeed, the compliment that pleased him most was that he had ‘created Welsh history’. Published to mark the centenary of Lloyd’s most important book, A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest (1911), the study reassesses Lloyd’s significance by setting his work in its multiple contexts. Part One gives an account of his life, with particular emphasis on his upbringing, education and subsequent career as a historian, viewed against the background both of efforts to give expression to Welsh nationhood through educational institutions and of wider developments in the professionalization of historical scholarship. In Part Two the focus shifts from the biographical to the thematic and examines why Lloyd privileged the early and medieval Welsh past and how he depicted this in his 1911 History. These chapters investigate key themes in Lloyd’s interpretation with reference not only to previous accounts of Welsh history but also to the broader intellectual and scholarly context of his own time. Through its reappraisal of Lloyd the book provides a case study of how the past of a small, stateless nation was reconfigured, at a time of self-conscious national revival, through deploying modern canons of scholarship that served to legitimize a new narrative of national origins. It thus offers a fresh and distinctive perspective on issues of broad significance in modern European historiography and intellectual history.

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University of Wales Press

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178316297X

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9781783162970

Wales on This Day

By: Huw Rees,Sian Kilcoyne

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Wales on This Day

By: Huw Rees,Sian Kilcoyne

Discover 366 fun and surprising stories about Wales – each linked to a specific day of the year. Did you know that the recipe of Tennessee’s famous Jack Daniel’s whiskey is rumoured to have originated in Llanelli, or that the world’s first radio play was set in a Welsh coal mine? Why was a showing of the Jurassic Park film in Carmarthen so special, and how is Rupert Bear connected to Snowdonia? Delve in to discover the stories that most history books leave out.

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263

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University of Wales Press

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1915279127

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9781915279125

Population Geography

By: Huw Roland Jones

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Population Geography

By: Huw Roland Jones

Illustrated with a wide range of case studies drawn from all parts of the world, POPULATION GEOGRAPHY clearly depicts the cause-and-effect links between demographic change and the socio-economic transformation of societies. Providing timely information in a clear and accessible style, the text is an ideal classroom text for instructors who are introducing their students to the topic of population geography.

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Guilford Press

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0898624649

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9780898624649

J. E. Lloyd and the Creation of Welsh History

Renewing a Nation's Past

By: Huw Pryce

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Renewing a Nation's Past

By: Huw Pryce

This is the first book about the historian John Edward Lloyd (1861 - 1947), whose A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest (1911) marks a turning point in the writing of Welsh history.

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University of Wales Press

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0708323901

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9780708323908

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Writing Welsh History

Writing Welsh History

Writing Welsh History

Writing Welsh History

J. E. Lloyd and the Creation of Welsh History

J. E. Lloyd and the Creation of Welsh History

Wales on This Day

Wales on This Day

Population Geography

Population Geography

J. E. Lloyd and the Creation of Welsh History

J. E. Lloyd and the Creation of Welsh History

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