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Jane Aaron
Woman on a Mission

Sheds light on the groundbreaking Welsh feminist Sarah Jane Rees.During an age of extreme gender polarization when women were confined to the domestic sphere, Sarah Jane Rees (1839-1916) from Llangrannog,…

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Nicholas K. Alderton
Emlyn Hooson and the Welsh Liberal Party, 1962-1979

This study presents an analysis of the Welsh Liberal Party under the leadership of Emlyn Hooson. It begins with an overview of the period prior to Hooson's 1962 by-election win in Montgomery, following th…

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Gosia Buzzanca
There She Goes, My Beautiful World

A memoir that follows a woman's journey to build a new life in Wales after surviving trauma in Poland.What does "home" mean? Is it where you come from, or is it something that you have to create…

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Sarah Siân Chave
Hafren

A meditation on the significance of the Welsh river Hafren.The Severn, or Afon Hafren in Welsh, is a mighty river. She has shaped many histories and is part of many folk stories. In Celtic traditions, wat…

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Catriona Coutts
Resistance in the 'Oppressor's Tongue'

Explores parallels between the political impact of Welsh and Catalan writers who choose to write in English and Spanish versus Welsh and Catalan.This book examines works by selected Welsh authors who writ…

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Demin Duan
Tocqueville Between East and West

This book adopts an Eastern or Chinese perspective on Alexis de Tocqueville's political thought, highlighting the 'aristocratic' nature of his theory of freedom; and, as it does to, it takes the great tra…

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Aled Eirug
Dafydd Elis-Thomas

A novel exploration of why Dafydd Elis-Thomas, the leader of Plaid Cymru, the Welsh Nationalist party, didn't believe in nationalism and how this changed Welsh politics.Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas of Nant Con…

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William Gibson
James II and Wales

Studies the unsuccessful rule of King James II in seventeenth-century Wales.The reign of James II was a dramatic failure in Wales. He became King when Welsh loyalty to the crown and church was strong. How…

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Clare Gogerty
The Water Remedy

The elemental pull of water is irresistible, whether it's to bathe, swim, shower, splash about, sail or simply paddle. We are drawn to it not just for pleasure but for its healing and wellbeing benefits. …

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Leon Gooberman
Waging War and Building Peace

The British economy altered radically between 1934 and 1947. Some of the most dramatic changes were in Wales as its struggling private-sector-led economy was supplanted by one dominated by the state. Init…

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Jon Gower
Raider

A gripping portrait of an American football legend whose impact stretched far beyond the game.From the electrifying fields of Morgan State to the roaring stadiums of the NFL, Raymond Chester's journey is …

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Carwyn Graves
Cynefin

Reimagine our relationship with the natural world through the Welsh poetic tradition At a time of biodiversity loss and climate grief, we need to reset our relationship with the natural world. Cynefin hel…

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Carwyn Graves
Tir

In Tir - the Welsh word for 'land' - writer and ecologist Carwyn Graves takes us on a tour of seven key elements of the Welsh landscape, such as the ffridd, or mountain pasture, and the rhos, or wild moor…

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Alex Johnson
My Year of Reading Welshly

A year's worth of recommendations for reading both classic and new literature from Wales, with discussion questions for book clubs included.Alex Johnson invites you to join him on his year of reading Wels…

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James Kennedy
Loud Medicine

A raw, unfiltered ride through the music industry's underbelly--told from the van, not the penthouse.Behind every stadium-filling superstar are thousands of musicians fighting to keep the dream alive. In …

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Diarmait Mac Giolla Chriost
Fieldnotes from Celtic Palestine

Fieldnotes from Celtic Palestine embodies a new type of sociological writing that weaves ethnography with memoir as well as fusing other convention-breaking literary forms, styles and devices. In its inno…

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Ben Parsons
Introducing Medieval Animal Names

What did medieval people call the animals they lived and worked with? Why did they give them the names they did? This book sets out to answer these questions. Drawing evidence from literary, documentary a…

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Linden Peach
New Perspectives on Gillian Clarke

This is the first book-length study of the poetry and journal writings of Gillian Clarke in their entirety; it is the first extensive examination of her work published in this century, and the first full …

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Huw Rees, Sian Kilcoyne
Welsh Women on This Day

Which Welsh woman led a double life as a pirate and smuggler? Which harpist and wrestler threw a man into a lake? Who led the first society in Wales to campaign for women to vote? Discover 366 surprising …

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Timothy Rideout
Gothic Precarity

From economic ruin to climate catastrophe--how the Gothic has become the literature of our precarious age.Whether political, economic, or existential, precarity has become the defining condition of the tw…

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