History means many things to many people. But finding an answer to the question 'What is history?' is a task few feel equipped to answer. If you want to explore this tantalising subject, where do you
It's the 1920s. Airships, prohibition, Al Capone, talkies, gramophones, the Empire State building: the world across the pond is bursting with excitement and the future wide open for two small boys at
A collection of many of the author’s best short stories, this volume focuses on the author's hometown of Pontypridd, Wales,?with writing that is as scathing and savage as it is funny and compassionate
Carwyn James treated rugby football as if it was an art form and aesthetics part of the coaching manual. This son of a miner, from Cefneithin in the Gwendraeth Valley, was a cultivated literary schola
An eye-opening look at the winners and losers in the high-stakes story of Arctic transformation, from nations to natives to animals to the very landscape itself The Arctic?like the canary in the coal
The notion of 'history' has always been one strenuously debated by both academics and the wider population. This deeply provocative re-thinking of our engagement with the past by one of the world's le
An eye-opening look at the winners and losers in the high-stakes story of Arctic transformation, from nations to natives to animals to the very landscape itselfThe Arctic--like the canary in the coal
The second half of the eighteenth century brought changes in attitudes towards shaping the body. New expectations of polite conduct, deportment and demeanor were projected onto the body, with emphasis
This brand new bilingual play by young playwright Alun Saunders is a coming of age story about two brothers raised apart, in different families speaking different languages. With animated surtitles in
Physick and the Family offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales. This first-ever monograph of early modern Welsh medicine utilizes
