Cronica Walliae Humphrey Llwyd

Cronica Walliae Humphrey Llwyd
Author: Humphrey Llwyd
Publisher:
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The first ever edition of Cronica Walliae, the earliest and most important work of Humphrey Llwyd (1527-68), antiquary and map- maker, comprising a thorough edition of the text which is a record of the history of Wales from 650 to 1295, together with valuable explanatory notes and a detailed index.

The Arthurian Place Names of Wales

The Arthurian Place Names of Wales
Author: Scott Lloyd
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017-02-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786830264

This new book examines all of the available source materials, dating from the ninth century to the present, that have associated Arthur with sites in Wales. The material ranges from Medieval Latin chronicles, French romances and Welsh poetry through to the earliest printed works, antiquarian notebooks, periodicals, academic publications and finally books, written by both amateur and professional historians alike, in the modern period that have made various claims about the identity of Arthur and his kingdom. All of these sources are here placed in context, with the issues of dating and authorship discussed, and their impact and influence assessed. This book also contains a gazetteer of all the sites mentioned, including those yet to be identified, and traces their Arthurian associations back to their original source.

Writing Welsh History

Writing Welsh History
Author: Huw Pryce
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2022-04-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0192692321

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.

Early Modern Wales c.1536c.1689

Early Modern Wales c.1536c.1689
Author: Lloyd Bowen
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2022-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786839601

This is a general textbook organised around ideas of identity and nationhood rather than the usual high political narrative. It incorporates cutting-edge scholarship and new evidential sources to provide novel perspectives. Early Modern Wales considers neglected topics such as gender and women's experiences and examines history beyond the ruling elite.

J. E. Lloyd and the Creation of Welsh History

J. E. Lloyd and the Creation of Welsh History
Author: Huw Pryce
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2011-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0708323901

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.

Bard of Liberty

Bard of Liberty
Author: Geraint H. Jenkins
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2012-06-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1783165278

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.

Myths and Mysteries of Kentucky

Myths and Mysteries of Kentucky
Author: Mimi O'malley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2023-12-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1493082906

Myths and Mysteries of Kentucky reveals the dark and ominous cloud of mysteries and myths that hovers over the Bluegrass State. This book offers residents, travelers, history buffs, and ghost hunters a refreshingingly lively collection of stories about Kentucky's unsolved murders, legendary villains, lingering ghosts, terrifying myths, and haunted places.

American Vikings

American Vikings
Author: Martyn Whittock
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2023-11-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1639365362

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Internal Empire

Internal Empire
Author: Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2023-04-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1805260715

Over several centuries, England imposed itself by force and by treaty on the other three nations of the Hiberno-British Isles to form its own English Empire. For much of its life, the United Kingdom has only endured out of shared interest in overseas territorial expansion–a British Empire built on slavery. In his new history, Victor Bulmer-Thomas charts the slow rise and rapid decline of English imperialism at home, from the tenth century to the present. When independence movements in the colonies began challenging the British Empire, a Commonwealth was constructed to hold together both former imperial possessions–including the Irish Free State–and the four nations of the internal empire. The Commonwealth was later supplanted by the European Economic Community, but Europe’s potential as a long-term source of cohesion for the UK was dashed when the English voted to leave the EU in 2016, dragging the whole UK with them. With Empire, Commonwealth and Europe all gone, British unity is more fragile than ever. Facing the prospect of an independent Scotland, a reunited Ireland and an increasingly autonomous Wales, England may yet have to acknowledge its forgotten history as an aggressive imperial force on Britain’s own, often unwilling, soil.