Books published by University of Wales Press

The first of a three-volume centenary history. This volume celebrates the centenary of the University by recalling the foundation and early days. It casts a critical eye on an institution which was reputed at its inception to represent "the soul of the nation".

Gwent is sometimes presented as the most Anglicized county of Wales. This book corrects the perspective by tracing the Welsh cultural tradition of the county.

A history of religion in Wales between 1588, when the first complete Welsh Bible was published, and 1760. The book describes the development of Christian thought and how biblical religion evolved in response to social and political change.

This book explores the exciting world of Celtic mythology and demonstrates how it can be related to its prehistoric Indo-European roots.

This book uses archaeological, historical and literary evidence to capture for the first time the medieval Welsh on the move between the fifth and fifteenth centuries.

A collection of commemorative essays and addresses by the Professor of Christian Doctrine at Aberystwyth University which probes and reflects theologically upon aspects of Christianity's intellectual and historical heritage.

The need to attribute disputed utterance constantly arises, whether as a matter of legal urgency or the focus of scholarly debate. This work provides a guide to Andrew Q. Morton's cumulative sum technique for authorship attribution (Cusum or QSUM, as the analytic procedure is now known).

The first book-length study of its kind, South African Gothic maps the poetics, origins and functions of an underexplored Gothic tradition in South African literary imaginaries.

This volume invites readers to explore the stylistic resources of Welsh by comparing twentieth and twenty-first century prose in Welsh and in English translation (as well as the reverse direction). This technique brings out numerous linguistic and stylistic devices that reflect the characteristic idiom and expressive spirit of idiomatic Welsh writing.

Cyfrol o feirniadaeth lenyddol gymharol, sy'n dod a gwaith awduron Cymraeg a Saesneg ynghyd i drafod y portread ffuglennol o amlddiwylliannedd Cymru, ac i awgrymu sut y gall dwyieithrwydd Cymru gynnig cyfle i greu cymdeithas Gymreig fwy cynhwysol.

Darwinian Feminism in Early Science Fiction reveals a lost history of women's science fiction and shows how it was shaped by the work of Britain's greatest scientist.

This activity pack is divided into two sections, 1485-1760 and 1760-1914. Each section opens with an overview of major themes and developments within the period, before going on to consider the important turning-points of change.

A concise introduction to the events which led to the partition of Ireland, with a discusion of the subsequent development of the two Irish states which emerged from the events of 1920-1922.

This is a study of the landed gentry of north Wales from the Edwardian conquest in the thirteenth century to the incorporation of Wales in the Tudor state in the sixteenth.a The limitation of the discussion to north Wales is deliberate; there has often been a tendency to treat Wales as a single region, but it is important to stress that, like any other country, it is itself made up of regions and that a uniformity based on generalisation cannot be imposed.a This book describes the development of the gentry in one part of Wales from an earlier social structure and an earlier pattern of land tenure, and how the gentry came to rule their localities.a There have been a number of studies of the medieval English gentry, usually based on individual counties, but the emphasis in a Welsh study is not necessarily the same as that in one relating to England.a The rich corpus of medieval poetry addressed to the leaders of native society and the wealth of genealogical material and its potential are two examples of this difference in emphasis.

The first in-depth study of the Communist Party's attitude to devolution in Wales, to Welsh nationhood and Welsh identity, examined within the context of the rapid changes in twentieth century Welsh society, debates on devolution and identity on the British left, the role of nationalism within the communist movement, and the interplay of international and domestic factors.

Ymgais sydd yma i geisio gweld sut y mae diwinyddiaeth Gristnogol yn ymateb i wyddoniaeth, a sut y mae gwyddoniaeth yn effeithio ar ein dirnadaeth Gristnogol.

This book provides a historical, political and legal analysis of the sweeping contemporary transformation of the British and French constitutional frameworks, which culminated in the 2016 referendum on Britain's EU membership. It offers a unique Franco-British perspective on unprecedented constitutional change with a particular emphasis on Wales.

A collection of essays on a range of Welsh writers, both well-known and otherwise, by one of the leading specialists in the anglophone literary culture of Wales.

The first nationwide historical study of Jewish communities and individuals in Wales, stretching from the establishment of the first Welsh-Jewish community in Swansea in 1768 to the present situation of Welsh Jewry in the early twenty-first century.