2    29th Irish Conference of Medievalists, The Vintage Kitchen, Dublin 2-5    British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference, Swansea University 3-4    Association of Business Historians Conference, Exeter University 6-9    International Medieval Congress, Leeds University 9-10    Medieval and Golden Age Hispanic Studies Colloquium, Northumbria University 10-11    Research Society of Victorian Periodicals 47th Annual Conference, University of Ghent, Belgium 10-11    Biennial London

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4-5    The Medieval and Early Modern Garden: Enclosure and Transformation, Swansea University 5    Durnell  Sales Conference, Cardiff 10    WBC Sales Conference, Aberystwyth 10-12    Congreso Internacional ‘Ramon Muntaner: fets, dits i ‘veres veritats’ (1265-1336)’, University of Girona 15    The launch of Pam na fu Cymru by Simon Brooks, Uwchgwyrfai History Centre, Clynnog

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We are pleased to announce that The University of Wales Press has retained its Investors in People status following the 2015 assessment. Accreditation is earned by employers who ‘embed best practice, recognise your achievements and show you value your people’. For more information, see: http://www.investorsinpeople.co.uk/

American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature, by Kerry Dean Carso, has been named winner of the Henry-Russell Hitchcock Award 2015 by the Victorian Society in America: www.victoriansociety.org The Hitchcock award recognizes excellence in discussions centered on architecture or the decorative arts, and includes related topics such as landscape, painting, interiors, biographies of designers

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Click the titles below to read more about these books: The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1780-1880 The Twilight of the Gothic?: Vampire Fiction and the Rise of the Paranormal Romance

Click on any of the titles below to read preview extracts of these books: Abbeys and Priories of Medieval Wales by Janet Burton and Karen Stöber American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature by Kerry Dean Carso Carmarthen Castle: The Archaeology of Government by Neil Ludlow Dylan Thomas by Walford Davies Revolution to Devolution: Reflections on Welsh Democracy by Kenneth O.

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During February and March, the University of Wales Press will be participating in the following conferences: February 4-6          International Arthurian Society colloquium – Granada, Spain 7             Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, Cambridge University 18           American Philosophical Association, St Louis, Missouri   March 4-6        IPG Conference, Oxford 6  

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The Place Names of Wales  The North Wales Quarrymen Let’s Do Our Best For the Ancient Tongue Abbeys & Priories of Medieval Wales

Over the next eighteen months the University of Wales Press will publish digital versions of some of its classics, cited by Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol lecturers as works of particular value for teaching students through the medium of Welsh across a broad range of subjects – including Philosophy, History, Law and Science. The Press intends to

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During December, the University of Wales Press will be participating in the following conferences: 4-6    Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Conference, Melbourne 27    American Philosophical Association Conference, Philadelphia

Hispanic Studies at university have expanded and diversified greatly over the past thirty years. From an exclusive focus on Iberian languages, literature and cultural history, there has been a significant transformation in Iberian and Latin American Studies in English-speaking universities towards interdisciplinary approaches to languages, history, literature, gender and cultural studies. The trend has, of

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During November, the University of Wales Press will be participating in the following conferences: 31 Oct-1 Nov   ‘Migrating Texts’: Subtitling, Translation, Adaptation, Senate House, London 6-9    American Studies Association, ‘The Fun and the Fury’: New Dialectics of Pleasure and Pain In the Post-American Century, Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles, CA  8-9    Seventh Bangor Colloquium

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Gothic Literary Studies has attracted scholars from across the world. In 2009 the series was launched with the first two volumes of a four-volume ‘mini-series’ which addressed the history of the gothic from the eighteenth century to the present day, and the distinctiveness of the American Gothic tradition. The publication of these books quickly drew

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IMAGE: Dr Daniel Mulhall, Irish Ambassador to Great Britain, giving the conference’s opening lecture on the war poetry of Francis Ledwidge and Thomas Kettle. A complex picture of Welsh and Irish experiences of and responses to the First World War emerged at the Ireland, Wales, and the First World War conference, held at Cardiff University on 10th

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Revolution to Devolution: Reflections on Welsh Democracy K.O. Morgan Nietzsche and Napoleon: The Dionysian Conspiracy Don Dombowsky

During October, the University of Wales Press will be participating in the following conferences:  1    Revolution to Devolution Launch, 6.30pm, River Rooms, King’s College, London 1    ‘Fascists! Fascists? – Plaid and the charges of extremism’, Panel Debate with Richard Wyn Jones, Robert Stradling, David Melding and former First Minister Rhodri Morgan. Ty Hywel,

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2013/2014 has been a gem of an academic year for me, and most of it has been thanks to the publication of my first monograph, Galicia, a Sentimental Nation: Gender, Culture and Politics, by the University of Wales Press. The book and its primary argument –that the widespread stereotype of Galician Celtic sentimentality can be

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During September, the University of Wales Press will be participating in the following events and conferences: 4-6    The Fifteenth Century Conference, University of Aberdeen 5-7    British Poetry of The First World War, English Association Conference, Wadham College, Oxford 9-11    Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France, Annual Conference, University of

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During July, the University of Wales Press will be participating in the following events and conferences: 1-3    Irish Conference of Medievalists, University College Dublin 6-11    Australasian Association of Philosophy, Australian National University 7-10    International Medieval Congress, Leeds 10-13    22nd North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Washington 11-13    Joint Session of the Aristotlean Society and Mind Association, University

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I attended the Gothic Networking Day at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Centre for Gothic Studies on Saturday 12th July. Funded by the Higher Education Academy, the aim of the event was to give postgraduate students and those working in the gothic a unique opportunity to learn about Gothic Studies from some of its major figures ranging from

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The final installment of Lord Morgan’s publishing history with UWP. I am now publishing again with the University of Wales Press, a kind of ‘second coming’ after extensive writing for Oxford and other publishing houses. In September 2014 there will appear Revolution to Devolution, a series of essays on aspects of Welsh democracy – covering

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I have had much else to do with the University of Wales Press in the fifty years since the publication of my first book with them. In October 1965 the Board of Celtic Studies asked me to edit The Welsh History Review (of which I had been assistant editor since 1961), in succession to Professor

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The Dinefwr Literature Festival returned to the beautiful grounds of Dinefwr Park in Llandeilo for a second time between 20-22 June, with visitors basking in glorious sunshine during a weekend packed with literature, music and food. Luckily, I was able to represent UWP with a stall, and enjoyed talking to customers while appreciating some background

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Women’s Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Life as Literature, edited by Amaleena Damlé and Gill Rye, was featured last Friday at a cross-cultural launch event to celebrate recent publications on women’s writing. An international group of scholars and experts with specialist interests ranging through French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish literature assembled at the Centre for

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In the first part of a series of blogs, Lord Morgan offers some fascinating insights from his years in politics and his experience of publishing with UWP. I have been involved with the University of Wales Press for over half a century. They are a major reason why I received a lifetime achievement award from

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Lord Kenneth Morgan of Aberdyfi, the distinguished historian and one-time lecturer at Swansea University, has been honoured in Parliament with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Archives and History. Dr Hywel Francis MP, joint chair of the APPG and Honorary Professor at Swansea University, said, “Lord Morgan fully deserves

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Carmarthen Castle: The Archaeology of Government Building Jerusalem: Nonconformity, Labour and the Social Question in Wales, 1906-1939 Dwy Gymraes, Dwy Gymru: Hanes Bywyd a Gwaith Gwyneth Vaughan a Sara Maria Saunders J.O. Francis, realist drama and ethics: Culture, Place and Nation Castell Caerfyrddin: Olrhain Hanes Llywodraethiant

Prof. Richard Wyn Jones spoke to the Western Mail about his new book: ‘The Fascist Party in Wales?’ Plaid Cymru, Welsh Nationalism and the Accusation of Fascism, translated from the Welsh-language original. He said: “The fact of the matter is that Plaid Cymru had fewer illusions than most in the 1930s about the dangers of

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During June, the University of Wales Press will be participating in the following events and conferences: 4    Launch of The Fascist Party in Wales? Plaid Cymru and the accusation of Fascism by Richard Wyn Jones at the Wales Millenium Centre, 6pm 9    The Durnell Sales Conference, presenting new titles to sales representatives for

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April is always an exciting time for publishers, heralding the annual mega-event, the London Book Fair. Even though I have been in publishing for some years now, a sense of anticipation and wonder strikes me afresh each time as I reach Earls Court on a sunny spring day. The enormity of scale and attendance of

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Attracting exhibitors and visitors from across the globe, the London Book Fair is a key event in the publishing industry calendar. I had been very much looking forward to making my first trip there this year – and am now looking forward to 2015 already, as 2014 so surpassed my expectations! The pilgrimage to Earl’s

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The 50th annual conference of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS) took place in Birkbeck, London on 2–4 April 2014. Here at University of Wales Press we are very excited about our growing Iberian and Latin American Studies series, and so I was delighted to be in attendance and manning the stall at this event.

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From the Association of Welsh Writing in English: “Dr Matthew Jarvis (Aberystwyth University/University of Wales Trinity St David) and Lisa Sheppard (Cardiff University) are this year’s winners of the prestigious M. Wynn Thomas Prize for an outstanding academic essay in the field of Welsh Writing in English. The judging panel, Professor Diana Wallace (University of

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During May, UWP will be represented at the following events: 1 May In Conversation with… Lord Michael Heseltine at the Welsh Governance Centre in the Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay. Catherine Jenkins and Llion Wigley will be present with a selection of our political titles. 1–3 May The Celtic Revival in Scotland (1860–1930) conference at the University of

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The Wales Governance Centre and the Open University Wales celebrated May Day by jointly hosting a conversation with Lord Heseltine in Cardiff Bay. The Press, with a stand full of our politics titles, were in attendance to support our authors and to hear the great man – a Swansea boy! – at first hand. The

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