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 | King Alfred School and the Progressive Movement 1898-1998 (ISBN 0-7083-1453-8)
J. R. Brooks
Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Welsh History, University of Wales Bangor
pp xii375 Crown 4to April 1998 hardback
King Alfred School in north London was founded in 1898 by a group of Hampstead radicals in an age of educational experiment and innovation. Whereas many educational ventures of that era set up by small groups of idealists soon foundered or quickly lost their crusading zeal, King Alfred School has developed over the last century with its original ideals largely unchanged and its enthusiasm for its distinctive form of education undiminished.
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Price: £39.99
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The Language of the Blue Books - The Perfect Instrument of Empire (ISBN 0-7083- 1423-6)
No longer available in paper format, but available as an e-book.
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Price: £16.99
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 | Thomas Francis Roberts 1860 - 1919 (ISBN 0-7083-0167-3)
A lecture delivered at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, to mark the centenary of the birth of T. F. Roberts, the second principal of the College.
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Price: £0.95
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The University and Colleges of Education in Wales 1925-1978 (ISBN 0-7083-0760-4)
D. Gerwyn Lewis
pp 280 1980 hardback
`In this meticulously researched book, Dr Gerwyn Lewis traces the relationship between the University of Wales, and the Welsh colleges of education through a period of half a century, from the Report of the Burnham Committee which first recommended the forging of university-training college links in 1925, to the establishment of the Oakes Committee in 1978, when university control of public sector teacher training had been lost, and the whole government of public sector higher education was in the melting pot . . . Dr Lewis has given us a fascinating study, of interest to all concerned with the history of education and education policy-making in Wales. Students following university and college courses in education and policy-making should find the book an indispensable source of information . . . ' (History of Education)
` . . . Dr Lewis's splendid survey is full of authoritative detail . . . ' (Book News from Wales)
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Price: £25.00
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| | The University College of North Wales: Foundations 1884 - 1927 (ISBN 0-7083-0893-7)
This volume traces the history of the University College of North Wales from its foundation in 1884 until the retirement of its first principal, Sir Harry Reichel, in 1927. The early heroic struggles are treated in depth and the fortunes of the College are considered in relation to the community from which it sprang and to the University of Wales, believed by Rosebery to be an expression of national consciousness in its finest form. Academic advance, temporarily halted by the Great War, forms the core of the study, but extended attention is also given to student life in an age which now seems far distant.
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Price: £55.00
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The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth 1872-1972 (ISBN 0708319300)
This book not only makes an important contribution to the history of modern Wales but also places the histroy of the College in the wider educational and social context of the United Kingdom as a whole in the period 1872-1972.
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Price: £19.99
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| | A History of the University of Wales (ISBN 0-7083-0082-0)
A Historical Sketch
D. Emrys Evans
pp xi176 1953
In 1893, the colleges at Aberystwyth, Bangor and Cardiff were brought together as parts of a federal university. Federalism has had its critics, yet Sir Emrys Evans' most interesting account of the personalities and politics behind Welsh university history shows clearly that it would have taken an archangel to impose a unitary form on late nineteenth-century Wales.
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Price: £3.95
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The University of Wales: An Illustrated History (ISBN 0-7083- 1223-3)
Geraint H. Jenkins
pp 211 1993 paperback
This richly illustrated volume celebrates the centenary of the University by recalling some of the most distinctive features of academic and social life within the constituent Colleges over the past hundred years. This lively and readable volume is designed to appeal not only to those who are closely associated with academic life in Wales but also to the lay public at large.
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Price: £14.99
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| | Victorian School-days in Wales (ISBN 0-7083- 1110-5)
Victorian Schooldays traces the development of primary education in Wales from the sixteenth-century grammar schools and endowed charity schools to the establishment of local authority education following the 1902 Education Act as well as other landmarks in Welsh education. The policy of `payment by results' and its effect upon the Welsh language during the nineteenth century is examined as is the Commission of Inquiry into the State of Education in Wales (1847) and its much-criticized reports dubbed the `Blue Books'
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Price: £4.99
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Which Nation's Schools (ISBN 0-7083- 1077-X)
Direction and Devolution in Welsh Education in the Twentieth Century
Gareth Elwyn Jones
pp xii231 1990
Who has controlled Welsh schools throughout the twentieth century, and in whose interests have they been controlled? This study draws on hitherto undiscovered confidential government papers and provides an entirely new perspective on developments in Welsh education, particularly since the Second World War. The author describes how, ever since a substantial element of educational control was vested in local authorities, the potential for conflict was present; it erupted in the `Welsh Revolt' after 1902, in the dispute over `special places' during the Depression and, especially, in the fight over multilateral schools after 1944.
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Price: £29.99
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| | Vol. 1: The University Movement in Wales (ISBN 0-7083- 1239-X)
J. Gwynn Williams
pp xii250 plus 12 pages of illustrations 1993 hardback
This volume, one in a series of historical studies to celebrate the centenary of the University of Wales, traces the development of the university movement in Wales from the first aspirations to the granting of the Charter in November 1893. Based upon a wealth of sources in Wales and beyond, this book places the movement within its social setting in Wales and in Britain as a whole. It is a heroic tale which deserves to be freshly remembered from generation to generation
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Price: £35.00
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Vol. 2: The University of Wales 1893-1939 (ISBN 0-7083- 1436-8)
J. Gwynn Williams
pp xii481 Royal 8vo December 1997 Hardback
This volume traces the history of the federal University of Wales from its foundation in 1893 to the eve of the Second World War and places it in the broad background of higher education in Britain. The three first Colleges preceded the University and had their own charters and endowments. The balance between the central body and the Colleges has always been a delicate one, and it is not possible to comprehend the association without examining the separate development of the colleges, each of which provided a vice-chancellor in turn. Close attention is given to the role of Lloyd George at the height of his power in supporting the recommendations of the crucial Haldane Commission which he believed to be one of the most important documents in the history of Wales.
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Price: £35.00
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 | Vol. 3: The University of Wales 1939-1993 (ISBN 0-7083- 1437-6)
Prys Morgan
pp xii239 Royal 8vo December 1997 Hardback
This is the third and final volume in a series of studies to celebrate the centenary of the University of Wales. It deals with the years 1939 to 1993, a period of great expansion which transformed the University and its Colleges. In 1939 the University had fewer than 3,000 students. By 1993 it had more than 30,000 and was one of the largest academic institutions in the British Isles. Such expansion has had its successes, but it has also brought difficulties. As well as co-operation between the constituent Colleges, there were stresses and strains and demands for the dissolution of the University federation.
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Price: £35.00
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