Welsh Biographies

Description Gwyn Thomas was born, the last of twelve children, into a Rhondda mining family in 1913. After a childhood marked by the strikes of the...

Description From a humble background in Barry, where his father was a butcher and local politician in the formative years of the new town, Cyril La...

Description Mr Jones - The Man Who Knew Too Much, is the first biography of Gareth Jones and reveals the remarkable yet tragically short life of th...

Description Owen Morgan Edwards, from Llanuwchllyn in Gwynedd, was a politician, scholar, writer and publisher of magazines. He is well-known for p...

Description The author’s memoirs of growing up on the Llŷn Peninsula in the 1950s and 1960s, bookended by memories from other members of the Pwllhe...

Description A foretaste of a larger publication which will feature 27 Welsh bards, this volume presents interview portraits of three bards who are ...

Description Biography of well-known character, Goronwy Evans, who has served as a minister for fifty years, and who is one of Lampeter's unique cha...

Description When he was a child, Alwyn Harding Jones discovered a book in his grandfather's handwriting recording the diary of Captain John Hughes,...

Description The first full-length biography of Edward Lhwyd, this is an important contribution to the history of science in the fields of botany, p...

Description From a humble background in Barry, where his father was a butcher and local politician in the formative years of the new town, Cyril La...

Description The astonishing story of Henry Coombe-Tennant (1913-89), who served in the British Army in World War II, escaping from a POW camp, join...