About us
UWP passionately believes in supporting and disseminating scholarship from and about Wales to a worldwide audience. The Press has served Wales and the international academic community since 1922 by publishing scholarly research in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
We share in the strong national tradition of bringing education and learning to the population of Wales, and consider it our role to support all aspects of learning and the lifelong pursuit of knowledge and academic excellence. Our role in furthering the understanding of Wales’s unique culture, history, heritage, language and politics is critical. Over the past century, we have provided a platform for Wales’s foremost thinkers and have contributed to the building of modern Wales.
UWP is in a unique position as the only not-for-profit academic press in Wales. With the support of the University of Wales, we have been able to remain faithful to our founding mission.
UWP currently publishes around 50 new books and journals a year, primarily in the fields of European studies, philosophy, literature, history, Welsh and Celtic studies. We also produce general interest books about Wales as part of our mission to disseminate research and to make it accessible for a wider audience.
Press Advisory Board
Dr Elizabeth (Liz) Siberry (Chair) was educated at Howell’s School, Llandaff and the Universities of London (BA) and Cambridge (PhD History), and has combined a career in government service, latterly at Board level, with historical research and publication. She has published monographs on aspects of crusade history, including Criticism of Crusading, 1095-1274 (OUP 1985); The New Crusaders (Ashgate, 2000); Tales of the Crusaders (Routledge, 2021) and Knightly Memories (Routledge, 2024), as well as articles in journals and conference proceedings. She is an Honorary Research Associate of Royal Holloway College, London.
After retirement, she has held a number of trustee roles in Wales, including on the Board of the National Library of Wales. Current roles include membership of the University of Wales Trinity St David’s Council (term of office ending in July 2026); Trustee of Gregynog; Chair of the Brecknock Society and Museum Friends and Member of the Cymmrodorion Council.
She has also published articles in Brycheiniog and Scintilla and co-authored books on the Great Houses of Crickhowell and the poet Henry Vaughan.
Mr Chris Burton-Brown is a chartered accountant with 25 years’ experience working within the publishing sector, and has held several Finance Director positions in a number of different companies. He has a particular interest in improving management information to enable better publishing decisions, financial controls, acquisitions and divestments, systems implementations and staff mentoring.
Richard Fisher has worked primarily, but not exclusively, in the University Press sector for over forty years, including a long career at Cambridge University Press, ending in 2014 when he stood down as Managing Director of Academic Publishing. Richard later undertook two four-year terms as a Non-Executive Director of Edinburgh University Press, and as a Trustee and then Deputy Chairman of Yale University Press in London. He has twice been a Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society and was Publications Adviser to the British Academy and a member of the Advisory Board of Berghahn Books.
In recent years Richard worked extensively with the Independent Publishers Guild as IPG Academic and Policy Correspondent, and serves as an Associate Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB), with particular responsibility for sportsmen and sportswomen. In this sporting context he is also currently President of the Royal St David’s Golf Club, Harlech.
Professor Helen Fulton is an an active member of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Bristol, where she researches the history and politics of medieval literature, Celtic Studies, Arthurian literature and cultural exchanges between England and Wales in the Middle Ages. She has published on Welsh and Irish literatures of the twentieth century and is currently working on an edition of medieval Welsh political poetry.
Mr Richard Owen was the previous Head of the Publishing Grants Department at the Welsh Books Council.
Clare Grist Taylor is a publisher and leader with more than 30 years experience across a range of different publishing sectors – academic, textbook, professional and trade. She has published everything from trade books to large-scale online reference products, sold via the trade, direct to consumer and subscription. She started her publishing career with journals publisher, Pergamon Press, was European editorial director at Prentice Hall, managing director of ICSA Publishing and business and operations director at Profile Books.
Editorial Board
Huw Pryce, Chair, Emeritus Professor of Welsh History, Bangor University (Welsh History)
Jane Aaron, Professor of English Studies, Associate Member Centre for Media and Culture in Small Nations, University of South Wales (Writing Wales in English)
Richard Griffiths, Emeritus Professor of French, King’s College, London (French Studies)
Susan Harrow, Ashley Watkins Chair in French Language and Literature, University of Bristol (French Studies)
Ray Howell, Professor Emeritus, University of South Wales (Archaeology)
Dafydd Johnston, former Director of the Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, National Library of Wales (Celtic Studies)
Richard Wyn Jones, Professor and Director of Wales Governance Centre, Cardiff University (Politics)
Montserrat Lunati, Honorary Reader, University of St. Andrews (Hispanic Studies)
Tatiana Patrone, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Ithaca College, USA (Philosophy)
Robert Pope, Director of Studies in Church History and Doctrine, Westminster College, Cambridge (Religious Studies)
Diana Wallace, Professor of English Literature, Faculty of Business and Society, University of South Wales
Jonathan Wooding, Sir Warwick Fairfax Professor of Celtic Studies, University of Sydney (Celtic Studies)