Francesca Kaminski-Jones - Celts, Romans, Britons: Classical and Celtic Influence in the Construction of British Identities

This volume has its roots in a conference held at Oxford on 2 July 2016, and we would like to thank all the participants, funders, and supporters who made it possible. The conference was supported by the University of Wales Centre For Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS), Oxford Medieval Studies, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), Royal Holloway University of London, the Institute of Classical Studies, the Classical Association, the Learned Society of Wales, and the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature. We are very grateful to the conference speakers who, for various reasons, were not able to contribute to this volume, namely Barry Cunliffe, Rosemary Sweet, and especially Ceri Davies, whose work on a draft chapter for this volume we appreciate greatly. We would also like to thank Thomas Charles-Edwards and Nick Lowe, who chaired panels on the day, Katherine Fender, who was of great help in the organization process, all the staff at the Radcliffe Humanities Building who worked with us, and finally Angharad Elias and Nia Davies at CAWCS, whose administrative support was invaluable.

With regard to the volume itself, we would first like to thank our series editors James I. Porter and Lorna Hardwick for their advice and support. We would in particular like to thank Lorna Hardwick, who from the beginning has gone above and beyond the call of duty to steer us through the editing process, and who has been very generous with her time and expertise. A number of people have read and commented on drafts of both the volume and the volume proposal, and we would like to thank them all: Nick Lowe, Mary-Ann Constantine, Ahuvia Kahane, Mark Williams, Dafydd Johnston, and David Parsons. We would also like to thank Kate Mathis, who provided a great deal of specialist advice. Our contributors have been hugely helpful during the editing process, both in their responses to us as editors, and in their willingness to read and respond to each others workan interdisciplinary and transhistorical volume such as this can only be accomplished through collaboration and collective effort, and we are very thankful that our authors were willing to engage in this effort so thoroughly. Our anonymous readers have helped to improve the volume significantly, and we extend them our sincere thanks. Our thanks also to everyone working for and at Oxford University Press who have contributed to producing this book, in particular Karen Raith, Charlotte Loveridge, Monica Matthews, and Bhavani Govindasamy. If anyone has been accidentally omitted from this list, we apologize and thank them profusely.

None of our work would be possible without the support of loving family and friends, and we hope they know how deeply appreciated they are. And finally, the editors must also thank each other for managing the potentially precarious juggling act of marriage and co-editorship!