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Wales and Internationalism Graham Davies Ten years ago I took a train from Valencia, a vibrant Spanish city on the coast, to Teruel, a town high in the Aragon region and famous for its Mudejar architecture and its delicious Mag...

Excellent article from Graham Davies, author of You Are Legend - The Welsh Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, in
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You Are Legend is available in pbk and ebk from all booksellers or via welsh-academic-press.wales

¡No pasarán!

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A beautifully written and utterly hearfelt article.
Rhaid darllen hyn - A must-read.
Thanks for publishing this @yalereview.bsky.social a da iawn Dan!❤️

OTD - 9 Jan 1937
Saunders Lewis, DJ Williams and Lewis Valentine were convicted at the Old Bailey for the 'Fire on Llŷn'.
The story of this remarkable episode in modern Welsh history is told in 'Penyberth: A Nation on Trial', available in pb from
www.welsh-academic-press.wales

Joint proposal to establish new Dental School in Wales Two Welsh universities have developed an initial joint proposal for the Welsh Government to establish a new Dental School. Working with the health boards and Cardiff University, the aim of the high-le...

Two Welsh universities have developed an initial joint proposal for the Welsh Government to establish a new Dental School

📣 Now available globally in paperback & ebook 📣
Four classic titles for students of #ScandinavianStudies #NordicStudies & #MedievalLiterature

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🎉 Published Today 🎉
New paperback & ebook editions of
The Saga of Hávarður of Ísafjörður
www.welsh-academic-press.wales

Available globally via #Ingram #IPS #LightningSource

#NordicStudies #IcelandicSagas #ScandinavianStudies

Published today! Allan heddiw!
Comprehensive explanations of the names of 900 towns, villages and hamlets - from Aberangell to Ystumgynon - in the historic Welsh county of Montgomeryshire / Sir Trefaldwyn.
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📚Out 23 October📚
Over 900 place-names explained, from Aberangell to Ystumgynon.
Order now: www.welsh-academic-press.wales

OTD: 8 September 1936.
Lewis Valentine, Saunders Lewis & DJ Williams, leaders of Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru, now @plaidcymru.bsky.social burnt down the partly-built RAF bombing school at #Penyberth and changed the course of Welsh history.
Now available in pbk & ebk:
www.welsh-academic-press.wales

Richard Morgan’s masterful study not only reveals many fascinating explanations of Montgomeryshire’s 900 place-names but also resolves numerous false interpretations.

Out Oct 2025 as pb & ebk (both £19.99). Order now from:
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“This is the first government that has tried to put Wales on trial” David Lloyd George

“The first time...since the days of Owain Glyndŵr that charges of lawbreaking have been brought against the protagonists of Welsh independence.” Western Mail

4 Sept 2025 - £19.99: www.welsh-academic-press.wales

Two new titles, in paperback & ebook, for scholars and students of #MedievalStudies and #ScandinavianStudies

The #MedievalDragon and The #SagaofBjorn

Both available globally priced £19.99

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(both previously published in hb by our sister imprint Hisarlik Press)

Delighted to be flying the flag for our authors and for Welsh publishing at the London Book Fair 2025 (2A109).

Dewch draw i ddweud s'mae!

Thanks to @publishingwales.bsky.social #CreativeWales #WelshGovernment and the #WalesBooksCouncil for the support that made this possible.

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Happy St David’s Day—Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus ❤️

That’s some decent advice! St David’s Day doesn’t get the press or the green beer or whatever, but as saints go the patron saint of Wales was all right. #cymru

"Byddwch lawen a gwnewch y pethau bychain"
Dewi Sant

"Be joyful and do the little things"
St. David

An annual reminder from the national saint of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 that small acts of kindness and thoughtfulness are the essential elements of humanity

Diwrnod Dewi Sant Hapus i'r byd ❤

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‘Unfair’ research culture funding ‘will worsen REF inequalities’ Research England chair warned that universities in devolved nations disadvantaged by lack of dedicated research culture funding

Research England chair warned that universities in devolved nations disadvantaged by lack of dedicated research culture funding

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A reminder to Welsh Government: you run higher education in Wales and your party colleagues are in power at Westminster. If you want devolution to survive - indeed, if you want Wales to survive - you have to actually do something about the crises happening under your watch.

Its been an been an occasional theme in my time as a Welsh political journalist that organisations in a funding relationship with WG sometimes can be reluctant to push too hard in the media if problems emerge

Photo of the late Professor Geraint H. Jenkins

We are greatly saddened to hear of the death of Professor Geraint H. Jenkins, a former Director of the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. An eminent historian, he was among the finest scholars of his generation. (1/4)

This is on top of a huge redundancy drive at Aberystwyth, other redundancies and cuts at Bangor, University of South Wales, and closing Lampeter University's campus to teaching.