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In 1972 the Womens Electoral Lobby changed the political agenda forever. Australian political parties began producing womens policies, equal employment acts were passed, womens policy units were set up in government and womens services were funded.

This important book, based on extensive interviews and unprecedented access to SBS archives, argues that SBS is one Australia's most significant and innovative cultural institutions and that its charter to broadcast for multicultural Australia is as relevant today as it was when the organization started 30 years ago.

This is the third volume of the authoritative history of the county of Gwent, geared towards an understanding of the county's past for the twenty-first century reader. Volume III is a highly illustrated collection dealing with the early modern period of Welsh history, from the creation of Monmouthshire by the Act of Union in 1536 to the beginnings of industrialization in the later eighteenth century.

This major reference work is the fourth volume in the series Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages. Principally focused on the production, dissemination, and evolution of Arthurian material from the twelfth to fifth centuries, this volume covers writing in both verse and prose, and addresses such classics as the Tristan legend, the "Vulgate Cycle, " and the Grail Continuations.

R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) was a Welsh poet and an Anglican clergyman whose ironic anti-pastorals, poems of filial resentment, bold charting of the new cosmos, and dialogues with Wallace Stevens and Soren Kierkegaard are among the subjects explored in this collection of critical essays. The first volume to appear since the poet's death in 2000, "Echoes to the Amen" considers the achievement and legacy of a Welsh icon and one of the great poets o...

The Full Monty, Billy Elliot, "and "Brassed Off" are among recent iconic working-class British films that have found huge worldwide success. Challenging suggestions that class is no longer relevant for literary or cultural analysis, this volume examines the lives and experiences of the working-class people portrayed in these films and in works of contemporary writing from authors like Jeanette Winterson and Pat Parker in order to assess how wo...

An industrious academic and charmingly eccentric Romantic poet and forger, Iolo Morganwg (1747-1846) left behind a floor-to-ceiling stack of unpublished manuscripts in his small Welsh cottage. "A Rattleskull Genius, " based on that trove of unpublished material now held at the National Library of Wales, provides both a celebration and a critical reassessment of the author and his contributions to Welsh cultural tradition.

The seven-month British national mining lockout of 1926 was one of the most important European industrial disputes of the twentieth century. It not only came to symbolize the defeat of the labor movement in the interwar years, but it also cast a long shadow over industrial relations in the mining industry and epitomized the predicament of British miners in the early decades of the century. "Industrial Politics" draws on new methodological pers...

In response to the current critical fascination with phantoms and haunting, this volume explores and assesses the twentieth century's pursuit of the ghost in relation to notions of identity, authorship, and memory. Tracing the changing form of the haunting in a variety of French media, "Haunting Presences" considers the role of both the past and textual memory in different periods and genres. Accompanied by a substantial introduction that expl...

This volume examines the question of how recent English-language poetry from Wales has responded to the nation's diverse physical environments and human geography in order to crucially explore key issues in Welsh culture. Opening with an examination of poets from the 1960s forward, as well as the early works of R. S. Thomas, "Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry" subsequently concentrates on some of the late-twentieth century's most promi...

Few Welsh scholars of the modern era have served their profession, university, and country as admirably as Sir Glanmor Williams (1921-2005), and this volume recounts his remarkable contributions to the flourishing of Welsh history during the past half century. Highlighting the political, economic, educational, and social threads in his work--including the launch of the "Welsh History Review, " the major publication series Studies in Welsh Hist...

This volume explores the development of crime fiction as a genre in French literary culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, paying particular attention to the distinctive features of this French-language tradition. Grounded in the study of novels by Francophone writers, such as Georges Simenon and Leo Malet, "French Crime Fiction" examines both period and movement-specific work, engaging each in broader debates about the la...

Eighteenth-Century Writing from Wales" examines Welsh writing in English in the context of recent critical debates concerning the rise of cultural nationalism and the "invention" of Great Britain as a nation in the eighteenth century. This volume represents the first study of Welsh literature in English alongside this literary negotiation of Britishness, and the group of texts discussed provides an important contribution to the ways in which A...

This book explores the work of John Gray, controversial and widely read contemporary philosopher. This comprehensive volume links a critique of Gray's views on Marxism, humanism, and the Enlightenment--as well as his deep pessimism--with his position that attempts to tackle the core of issues like globalization and multiculturalism are hopelessly utopian. Challenging these and other assumptions in Gray's work in a clear and accessible way, Joh...

While everyone is familiar with the legend of Robin Hood, few can speak as knowledgably about other British outlaws and their traditions. Uncovering a popular history that dates back to Anglo-Saxon times, "Bandit Territories" takes as its main subject English, Welsh, and Scottish outlaws and considers their traditions in light of their unique landscapes, cultural histories, and adaptations into ballet, theatre, film and children's literature. ...

As any student of Welsh history is keenly aware, the societal upheaval of the 1960s is inextricably intertwined with to the activities of the Movement for the Defence of Wales (Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru, or MAC) and its two main protagonists, Owen Williams and John Jenkins. This book tells the story of the MAC's remarkable campaign from its inception in 1963 to the establishment of the Welsh assembly in 1969, charting the clandestine extremist or...

This book is an account of the origins and development of Cardiff's and Wales's medical school during the first four decades of its controversial existence. A contribution not only to the history of medical education in the United Kingdom, but also to the often acrimonious history between the University of Wales and Cardiff College, this volume addresses the evolving relationship between medical schools and teaching hospitals, the uniquely neg...

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Features the history of cricket in Wales, tracing the evolution of, and the fundamental role of the game in the culture and social history of the Principality.