European history

This is the first scholarly study of Britain's oldest pilgrimage site in continuous use, St Winefride's Well.

In ancient Rome, the most feared disease wasn't just dreaded—it was worshipped.

German Heavy Anti-Tank Unit 653 was equipped with the heaviest tank destroying vehicles of the German armed forces.

The medieval Welsh bardic grammars were composed and transmitted during a period of intense social and political change in Wales.

Introducing the Medieval Ass presents a lucid, accessible, and comprehensive picture of the ass's enormous socio-economic and cultural significance in the Middle Ages and beyond.

Full of surprising stories, quirky facts and notorious individuals, this collection from the authors of Wales on This Day: 366 Facts You Probably Didn't Know is an informative and entertaining testament to women who have shaped Wales and the world.

This book relates to one of Wales's most important institutions of higher education, covering its history from its creation in 1884 as the University College of North Wales, its incarnation as the University of Wales, Bangor and to its 125th anniversary in 2009.

This is a comprehensive study of the impact of censorship on theatre in twentieth-century Spain.

This is the first book to examine the full range of the evidence for Irish charms, from medieval to modern times.

The true, action-packed account of how a bogus Welsh nationalist infiltrated German Military Intelligence during the Second World War.

Barcelona: Visual Culture, Space and Power offers a unique approach to the history of the avantgarde in Barcelona, as well as its legacy in the post-war period.

From 1875 to the present day, the Cardiff and Bristol Channel Incorporated Shipowners' Association has been the representative body for shipowners in Cardiff and other Bristol Channel ports.

Many books have focused on the rise of, and success of, the Labour party in Wales, but this one focuses on its decline in an understudied part of Wales.

This modern history of Gibraltar updates and enhances scholarship on the Rock's history by bringing together the author's extensive archival research and developments in the secondary literature surrounding British Gibraltar.

Panzers Forward collects photos of all varieties of German armor, from the smaller tanks of the early war to the gigantic Tigers that came later, on all frontsNorth Africa, Sicily and Italy, France, and of course the Eastern Front.

A timely and up-to-date history of a place and people embroiled in an enduring international dispute.

This is an integrated range of studies focusing on Wales by a long-established and internationally-recognised academic authority and member of the House of Lords on the advance of democracy and the evolving idea of national identity in modern Britain.

A biography of John Morris-Jones (1864-1929), Welsh grammarian, academic and poet.

The late eighteenth century was one of the most exciting and unsettling periods in European history, with the shock-waves of the French Revolution rippling around the world.

Gegenwart und Zukunft - Generationenwandel - Anpassung und AusbruchEinige Lander in Ost-, Mittel- und Sudosteuropa sehen sich vor allem durch die Uberalterung herausgefordert.

The Welsh Folk Museum at St Fagans was the first large open-air folk museum in Britain.

The aim of this volume is to tell a story of Welsh industrial history different from the one traditionally dominated by the coal and iron communities of Victorian and Edwardian Wales.

How did the Welsh travel beyond their geographical borders in the Middle Ages?

The University of Wales Trinity Saint David was originally founded in 1822 as St David's College, Lampeter.

August 2025 and 2026 will mark the beginning of something irreversible.

The medieval north of England has been underexplored to date, and this volume may be seen as an invitation for further exploration.

Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition of his very successful book, Secret Sins.

Political prophecy was a common mode of literature in the British Isles and much of Europe from the Middle Ages to at least as late as the Renaissance.

In an era of commemoration, France's Colonial Legacies contributes to the debates taking place in France about the place of empire in the contemporary life of the nation, debates that have been underway since the 1990s and that now reach across public life and society with manifestations in the French parliament, media and universities.

Bevor das Jahr 1911 anbrach, war die Mona Lisa zwar bekannt, aber keineswegs die weltweite Ikone, die sie heute ist.

This is the first book on one of Wales's greatest leaders, arguably 'first prince of Wales', Bleddyn ap Cynfyn.

In the space of a single year, the largest country on Earth tore up three centuries of monarchy, briefly became the freest nation in the world, and then fell to a party of revolutionaries who promised bread, peace, and land — and delivered a civil war, a secret police, and a new kind of state that would shadow the entire twentieth century.

This is an engaging, best-selling volume reproduced with text panels that provide brief biographies of historical figures and descriptions of major historical sites in Wales.

Swansea University: Campus and Community in a Post-War World, 1945-2020 marks Swansea University's centenary.

In 1532, James V instituted the College of Justice, an incorporated group of expert lawyers and administrators who were to exercise supreme Scottish civil jurisdiction.

Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionA Book of the Year in The Times, TLS and Prospect The definitive history of Britain's tumultuous relationship with Europe - as it's never been told before.

Work on the miners' Lock-Out of 1926 tends to focus on the perspective of the National Union of Mineworkers, while nothing has been written which attempts to examine, for example, how miner's wives coped for six months without pay.

The aim of this book is to explore the characteristics of the medieval dragon and discuss the different and sometimes differing views found in the relevant medieval text types.

Half of the warriors who died in battle did not go to Odin.

This is the first full-length study of Swansea's urban development from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century.

From the outbreak of war in 1914 to the creation of the Mercantile Marine Reserve and the eventual introduction of convoys in 1917, this book charts the experiences, contribution and sacrifices made by merchant mariners from Wales.

The work of the map-maker and historian Humphrey Llwyd (1527-68) were a crucial contribution to a new vision of Britain in the early modern period.

This is a fascinating collection of essays illustrating the latest thought on the crucial decade of the 1670s in Britain.

In August 1942, Wigand Wuster was a twenty-two-year-old officer in the German Wehrmacht.

Luis de Morales, known as El Divino because of his intensely religious subject matter, is the most significant and recognisable Spanish painter of the mid-sixteenth century, the high point of the Spanish and Portuguese counter-reformations.

In August 1942, Wigand Wuster was a twenty-two-year-old officer in the German Wehrmacht.

Wer offnete den Bauernkriegern die Wurzburger Stadttore?

The main focus of this book is on the contribution of Welsh scientists, engineers and facilities in Wales to the British nuclear programme - especially the military programme - from the Second World War through to the present day.

Medieval anchorites willingly embraced the most extreme form of solitude known to the medieval world, so they might forge a closer connection with God.