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The Political Parties of Ireland is an indispensible companion for all who wish to know how Ireland's political parties have evolved, and how their electoral journeys are shaping the future of the island they share.

Place-Names of Carmarthenshire is the first publication to investigate all major place-names in the historic county of Carmarthen (1536-1974), including the westerly parts of the county transferred to modern Pembrokeshire after 1996.

Since Gareth Jones's historic press conference in Berlin in 1933 when he became the first journalist to reveal the existence and extent of the Holodomor, a Soviet-induced famine in Ukraine in which over four million people died, Jones and his professional reputation have been the focus of a determined campaign by those who deny the famine ever happened. Attempts to destroy Jones's character, which would de facto undermine the reliability of hi...

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Women in Swedish Society is a groundbreaking study by two general practitioners, Annika Forssen and Gunilla Carlstedt, who believed that the medical profession and accepted medical science was inadequately responding to the health problems presented by their female patients.

Mr Jones: The Man Who Knew Too Much, is the first full biography of Gareth Jones and reveals the remarkable yet tragically short life of this fascinating and determined Welshman who pioneered the role of investigative journalism.

Since 1975, the people of Scotland have responded to a major political question posed to them in a referendum on six occasions: three were UK-wide polls (1975, 2011 & 2016), and three Scotland-specific. In Aye or Nae The Referendum Experience in Scotland 1979-2014, Peter Lynch investigates the three purely Scottish referendums of 1979, 1997 and 2014 when Scotland voted No, then Yes, to devolution and No to independence. Lynch, a Senior Lecture...

The Public Affairs Guide to Wales is the essential handbook for organisations seeking to effectively and ethically lobby the Welsh Government and the National Assembly (Senedd), and is packed with invaluable advice on devising public affairs strategies and campaigns that achieve success on a limited budget. Daran Hill's step-by-step guide - for private, public and third sector organisations - expertly strips away the mysteries and misconceptio...

This is the only published work of Michael Collins, the man who destroyed the British Army in Ireland, and was, for a time, the most wanted man in the British Empire. The articles and speeches throws light not only on the Irish War of Independence and other crucial contemporary issues.

Morgan Jones - Man of Conscience, is the first biography of a remarkable politician who was imprisoned in Wormwood Scrubs for his pacifist beliefs during the First World War, but who made history by becoming the first conscientious objector to be elected an MP when he won the Caerphilly by-election for Labour in 1921.

A timely contribution to the study of the Nordic co-operative movement, Co-operatives and the Social Question not only provides an overview of growth of co-operatives in those nations, but also traces the regional transnational spread of co-operative ideas and practices as well as the context of the moral and modernising aims of co-operation.

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In Wordless Secrets, a ground-breaking new study of Persona, Peter Ohlin asserts that the essential Swedish context of the film has been overlooked by Bergman's international audience which has mistakenly preferred to focus on the abstract and metaphysical aspects of Persona.

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Essential reading for all those with an interest in contemporary Scotland, this is the first study of Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978) by a political historian and provides a unique contribution to the understanding of MacDiarmid's politics.

Tommy Sheridan scaled the political heights, achieving something quite remarkable. He became the best known and most widely respected socialist leader in the post-war period in Scotland. This biography tells the story of the socialist who had it all but who was attracted to risk like a moth to a light.

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The Welsh-language edition of the classic Diary of Anne Frank

In this ground-breaking study of Plaid Cymru's political philosophy, Dr Alan Sandry challenges the conventional assumption that Plaid Cymru, a political party that is generally regarded as being the foremost advocates of Welsh nationalism, conforms to the traditional model of a nationalist party.