This ground-breaking book, which traces the changing role of school and college inspectors in Wales over time, offers insights into debates about the impact of inspectors on the quality of education and questions the future pattern of inspection in schools.
This book debates how Brexit has exacerbated cultural differences between the four nations of Britain in a way that ultimately places the future existence of the United Kingdom in question.
This book is a literary history of existentialism in Latin America. While primarily a literary study, indispensable (if underappreciated) figures of existential philosophy in Latin America are introduced to the discussion.
A behind-the-scenes look at one nonconformist society in the United Kingdom. The 1698 Act of Toleration legalized Christian worship outside the Church of England and unleashed a wave of religious fervor throughout the United Kingdom. In Hull, a group of nonconformist mariners, merchants, and tradesmen formed a regional branch of the Society for the Reformation of Manners to turn back the swelling tides of sin they perceived in their community....
Following studies of Lovecraft and Stephen King, this book pays overdue attention to King's equally prolific contemporary, Britain's Ramsey Campbell. Focusing on neglected longer fictions, the book Ramsey Campbell discusses the writer's prose style and treatment of Gothic, interpreting his work theoretically.
In the nineteenth century, Cornwall was seen as a foreign nation on England's doorstep and imagined as a haunted place, full of ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and legends. This book explores how Gothic authors drew on this to create a Cornish Gothic tradition.
R. S. Thomas and Rowan Williams enjoy an international reputation. This book demonstrates how the spiritual poetry of both has its roots in a remarkable late twentieth-century bicultural tradition that was unique to Wales.
Drawing on key concepts and ideas from animal studies, this is the first study of how Welsh literature explores relationships among animals and between humans and animals. Approaching Welsh writing from the perspective of a universe in which all living things are connected, it examines how Welsh authors depict subjects such as intelligence, sensibility and knowledge from an animal perspective.
The contributors to Taking Up Space focus on representations of women's labour in cultural production (literature, cinema and television, journalism, bande dessinee). The chapters draw on a wide range of work experiences, from salaried work in academic, artistic, corporate and working-class worlds to unpaid (reproductive, domestic) labour, illegal activities and activism.
Based on official data and in-depth interviews, this urgent and challenging book provides the first academic account of the operation of the Welsh criminal justice system - a system that presides over some of the worst criminal justice outcomes in western Europe.
S4C is no ordinary channel, this book chronicles the challenges, successes and failures of the S4C Authority and its staff during the channel's trial period 1981-5.
Isaiah Berlin, a prominent public intellectual of the second half of the twentieth century, is examined in historical context for the first time as a thinker deeply influenced by, and deeply reactive against, the British Idealists.
Return to My Trees charts Matthew Yeoman's attempt to walk more than 300 miles through the ancient forest of Wales and tells the stories of the places he passes through, while pondering the question: how do humans reconnect with nature?
