English author and philosopher, Bishop Thomas Burgess' career was concerned with advocating for the emancipation of slaves and evangelistic work among the poor. This book uses his life as a starting point to uncover the links between the academic, religious and social cultures of Britain, Europe and North America in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Discusses about Welsh pictures painted between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, and why they matter today. This book mainly concerns how pictures are understood by the people who use them - patrons, museum curators, and the general public - rather than by the painters who paint them.

Offers research and critical interpretations about British outlaw traditions and the way they have been imagined and presented in both the Middle Ages and the centuries since. This volume focuses on the ways in which rogue-heroes have been used by literature, film, and other areas of popular culture and imagination.

This text examines the rise of the centralized state between the 16th and the 18th centuries. It aims to demonstrate how the state shaped the aristocracy in the Britain Isles and in France and its eastern periphery, and transformed its political, economic, cultural and status power.

Offers guidance to the French vocabulary as it is found in the contemporary press and media. This book provides short examples for each word or phrase in context with English-translations of head-words. It includes words relating to semi-specialised areas such as the legal sphere, banking and finance, administration, commerce and politics.

At his death in 2000, R S Thomas was widely considered to be one of the major poets of the English-speaking world, having been nominated for the Nobel prize for Literature. This title provides an introduction to Thomas' life and work, as well as fresh perspectives and insights for those already familiar with the poetry.

Effective practice by social workers, youth workers and health care workers depends upon good communication. This language text is aimed at social care workers in Wales who can already speak Welsh or who are learning the language, but lack the vocabulary or confidence to use it in the workplace.

Spanning the late-19th century and early-20th century, this volume seeks to introduce and understand the evolution of the modern Conservative party.

Examines the question of how English-language poetry from Wales has responded to the diverse physical environments of Wales. This book draws on aspects of human geography to explore the rich contemporary poetics of Welsh space and place. It focuses on the poetry of writers who have come to prominence since the 1970s.

This collection of essays seeks to acknowledge the lifetime contribution of Eric Kemp to the study, teaching and reform of the ecclesiastical laws of England, and to re-evaluate the development and practice of canon law in the early Church, Middle Ages, Reformation period and beyond.

Following the death of Diana, the British media presented an image of the country united in grief, suggesting that the mourners who dominated media coverage represented public opinion. This title challenges these myths and provides an examination of popular attitudes during September 1997.

The core of this history of the South Wales Miners' Federation, The Fed is the period from the General Strike in 1926 to the nationalization of the mines in 1947.

Features the history of cricket in Wales, tracing the evolution of, and the fundamental role of the game in the culture and social history of the Principality.