Rachel Bromwich's magisterial edition of Trioedd Ynys Prydein has long won its place as a classic of Celtic studies. This revised edition shows the author's continued mastery of the subject, including a new preface by Morfydd Owen, and will be essential reading for Celticists and for those interested in early British history, literature and Arthurian studies.
This book is a collection of essays examining the vast and varied output of Dylan Thomas. It is the first book to offer critical insights to the whole range of his output in verse, prose, drama and for screen.
A reference work about Wales, it contains entries on various kinds of people and places which have made it so culturally, historically and geographically rich. It also covers topics ranging from: Snowdonia to the pampas of Patagonia, folk heroes to Welsh Olympians, and the men and women of Wales who have excelled in art, culture and politics.
This ground-breaking book, which traces the changing role of school and college inspectors in Wales over time, offers insights into debates about the impact of inspectors on the quality of education and questions the future pattern of inspection in schools.
Life in Mars: from Manchester to New York is the first full account of this ground-breaking television drama, and uses textual analysis and cultural and contextual critique to explore the popular and critical success of the original UK series and the US remake.
Hans-Ulrich Treichel has enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame since the publication of his first novel Der Verlorene in 1998. This volume follows the series pattern, aiming to provide an introduction to Hans-Ulrich Treichel and to offer a critical approach to his work.
This book is about the impact of Welsh devolution on public policy. It examines how, from a fragile beginning, distinct political institutions and ideological position have made their mark not only in Wales but also in the UK and wider world.
A collection of essays that uses questions, hypotheses and concepts drawn from postcolonial theory to understand the culture and politics of post-devolution Wales.
Our Changing Land reflects on changes in relation to issues of gender, class, poverty, politics, the environment, the media and the Welsh language in post- devolution Wales, and considers the future of the nation.
This edited collection tells the story behind a ground-breaking Welsh law which reinforces the human rights of children and young people in Welsh devolved government, examining the impact of this law in selected policy areas and shows why the Welsh approach is attracting worldwide interest.