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perspectives both on the history of Wales and on understandings of Wales and the Welsh - and thus on the use of the past to articulate national and other identities. The studys broad chronological scope serves to highlight important continuities in interpretations of Welsh history. One enduring
preoccupation is Waless place in Britain. Down to the twentieth century it was widely held that the Welsh were an ancient people descended from the original inhabitants of Britain whose history in its fullest sense ended with Edward Is conquest of Wales in 1282-4, their history thereafter being
regarded as an attenuated appendix. However, Huw Pryce shows that such master narratives, based on medieval sources and focused primarily on the period down to 1282, were part of a much larger and more varied historiographical landscape. Over the past century the thematic and chronological range of
Welsh history writing has expanded significantly, notably in the unprecedented attention given to the modern period, reflecting broader trends in an increasingly internationalized historical profession as well as the influence of social, economic, and political developments in Wales and elsewhere.
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The immediate origins of this book lie in my work for an intellectual biography of John Edward Lloyd (18611947), a pioneering historian of medieval Wales who played a seminal role in the development of Welsh history as an academic subject. Comparison of Lloyds interpretations with those of his predecessors and contemporaries helped to convince me of the need for a much more wide-ranging study of Welsh history writing, a conviction reinforced by preparing my R. Allen Brown Lecture for the 2007 Battle Conference, which examined how Norman conquerors and settlers had been accommodated in the narratives written by early modern and later historians of Wales. Unsurprisingly, the task I set myself has proved larger and thus taken longer than originally anticipated. Although Wales is a small nation whose history has been the subject of a relatively modest quantity of writing, any attempt to survey that writing and assess its significance over some fifteen hundred years from Gildas to the present day is necessarily a challenging enterprise, albeit one easier to accomplish than previously thanks to the ever-increasing and free availability of digitized versions of manuscripts and printed materials.
I am very grateful to all those who have provided help and advice during my work on this book without, of course, seeking to implicate them in the errors and misunderstandings that remain. Henry Gough-Cooper, Ben Guy, Daniel Huws, Brendan Kane, Barry Lewis, Paul OLeary, Paolo Pellegrini, Paul Russell, Rebecca Thomas, Alessandra Tramontana, and Patrick Wadden provided help with particular sources and questions, in several cases by supplying copies of publications. I have benefited from presenting some of the material in the book to various audiences and from the feedback on those occasions, including a lecture to the Historical Association in Cardiff; seminar papers at Exeter and York; papers at the Identity, Ethnicity, and Nationhood Before Modernity conference at the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities and at the Research Centre Wales (Bangor University) conference Wales: In Search of Heritage; keynote lectures at the 40th UC Celtic Studies Conference/Annual Meeting of the Celtic Studies Association of North America (CSANA), UCLA, and at the XII Biennial Conference of the North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History (NAASWCH), Bangor University; and my 2019 ODonnell Lecture at Bangor, Cardiff, and Lampeter. My thanks also go to Philip Schwyzer for asking me to be a co-investigator on the AHRC project Inventor of Britain: The Complete Works of Humphrey Llwyd, and the ensuing opportunities to talk about Llwyd as a historian at the Society for Renaissance Studies conference at Sheffield, the Inventor of Britain conference at the British Library, the conference on Humphrey Llwyd ai Gyfoeswyr (Humphrey Llwyd and His Contemporaries) at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, and in public lectures at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the Gyl Arall literary festival, Caernarfon. Substantial progress was made with the research and writing of the earlier parts of the book, including drafts of , while I was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, in JanuaryApril 2017, and I am extremely grateful to Catherine McKenna for facilitating my visit and, together with her colleagues and the departments graduate students, for making me so welcome.
I also wish to thank the staff of the Bangor University Library and Archives Service for their help in gaining access to books and journals, especially when I was finishing the book during the restrictions imposed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. For assistance with the illustrations I am indebted to Owen McKnight and Robin Darwall-Smith, librarian and archivist respectively of Jesus College, Oxford; Emyr Evans, The National Library Wales; and Shan Robinson and Elen Wyn Simpson, Bangor University Archives and Special Collections.
Special thanks are due to Lloyd Bowen, Bill Jones, Owain Wyn Jones, Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, and Marion Lffler for taking the time to read and comment on one or more chapters. I owe a particular debt of gratitude to Neil Evans, who has not only read and commented on the entire book but encouraged my work on the subject and provided numerous suggestions and references over many years. In making final revisions to the text I have also benefited greatly from the observations and suggestions of OUPs anonymous reader.
My greatest debt is to Nancy Edwards, who has read several chapters and discussed the book with me on countless occasions. As ever, her advice and support have been invaluable.
is reproduced by permission of Archives and Special Collections, Bangor University.
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