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Gwyn A. Williams

    30. september 1925 – 16. november 1995

    Gwyn Williams bol waleský historik, ktorý sa preslávil najmä svojou prácou o Antoniovi Gramscim a Franciscovi Goyom, ale aj o waleských dejinách. Jeho skúmanie sa zameriavalo na kľúčové postavy a historické obdobia, pričom prinášalo nové pohľady na ich význam. Jeho diela sú cenené pre svoju hĺbku a dôkladný výskum.

    Goya
    Excalibur
    The Merthyr Rising
    The Welsh in their History
    Canadian politics in the 1990s
    • This book, first published in 1982, is a sequence of interrelated essays and aims to redirect attention to some critical moments in Welsh history from Roman times to the present. Each of the essays breaks new ground, argues for a new approach or opens a new discourse.

      The Welsh in their History
    • This book, first published in 1978, examines the independent political action by the thousands of working people in the town of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.Within weeks of the Rising, trade unions began to appear in South Wales, and this book argues that these events were central to the emergence of a Welsh working class.

      The Merthyr Rising