Glanmor Williams: A Life
by Glanmor Williams /
2003 / English / PDF
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Sir Glanmor Williams is one of Wales's most celebrated historians
and the chief authority on early modern Wales. He is also well
known as a lecturer, teacher, broadcaster and an active public
figure, and in 1995 was awarded a KBE for 'services to the history,
culture and heritage of Wales'.
Sir Glanmor Williams is one of Wales's most celebrated historians
and the chief authority on early modern Wales. He is also well
known as a lecturer, teacher, broadcaster and an active public
figure, and in 1995 was awarded a KBE for 'services to the history,
culture and heritage of Wales'.
In this autobiography, he writes of his childhood and youth spent
amid a warm-hearted, close-knit community which suffered the full
force of economic blight. Born in Dowlais in 1920, the only child
of working-class parents, he was educated at Cyfarthfa Castle
Grammar School and later at University College, Aberystwyth, where
his contemporaries included such distinguished writers as Alun
Lewis and Emyr Humphreys. He later spent nearly forty years as a
university lecturer in Swansea, twenty-five of them as professor of
history.
In this autobiography, he writes of his childhood and youth spent
amid a warm-hearted, close-knit community which suffered the full
force of economic blight. Born in Dowlais in 1920, the only child
of working-class parents, he was educated at Cyfarthfa Castle
Grammar School and later at University College, Aberystwyth, where
his contemporaries included such distinguished writers as Alun
Lewis and Emyr Humphreys. He later spent nearly forty years as a
university lecturer in Swansea, twenty-five of them as professor of
history.