THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES

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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