Series

Chris Williams is one of the series editors for the Studies in Welsh History Series published by the University of Wales Press on behalf of the History and Law Committee of the Board of Celtic Studies.  To see a list of existing and forthcoming titles click here.

Chris Williams is General Editor of the South Wales Record Society, which was established in 1982 and exists to publish a regular series of texts and other works relating to the history of South Wales (mainly Glamorgan and Gwent). Such publications allow original source materials that would otherwise only be accessible in archives and libraries to be examined by a wider readership. Each text is provided with a scholarly introduction, notes, bibliography, and other glossaries and appendices which enable the original source to be placed in is historical context. Click here for more about the SWRS.

The next two SWRS titles, which will be published in 2010, have particular relevance to the Richard Burton Centre. They are:

• The Diary of Laurie Latchford, 1940-41, edited by Kate Elliott and Wendy Cope. Laurie Latchford was a Swansea civil servant who lived in Newton and who acted as a senior air raid warden during the Swansea 'blitz'.

• The Origins of an Industrial Region: Robert Morris and the first Swansea copper works, c. 1727-1730, edited by Dr Louise Miskell . This is an edition of Robert Morris's History of the Copper Concern, which records the running of the Llangyfelach Copper Works. 

Chris Williams is co-editor of both the remaining volumes in the Gwent County History (General Editor: Ralph A. Griffiths). Volume IV: Industrial Monmouthshire, 1780-1914, is co-edited with Sian Rhiannon Williams of UWIC. Volume V: Modern Gwent, 1914-2000, is co-edited with Andy Croll of the University of Glamorgan. Both volumes are to be published by the University of Wales Press, Volume IV towards the end of 2010, and Volume V in 2011. For already published volumes in the series click here.

Chris Williams is an Associate Editor for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, involved in coordinating the commissioning and editing of new entries on Welsh subjects. Chris has recently written the entries on the miners’ leader and politician David Watts Morgan (1867-1933, published 2009) and the chief constable of police Lionel Arthur Lindsay (1861-1945, forthcoming 2010).

Individual Publications (Recently Published)

Chris Williams contributed two chapters (on the Rebecca Riots and on David Lloyd George) to the Open University course (A182): Small Country, Big History: Themes in the History of Wales, and remains an adviser to the course team management board.

Individual Publications (Forthcoming)

Noel Thompson and Chris Williams are co-editing a volume on Robert Owen and his legacy for the University of Wales Press, which arose from a conference on the same theme organized in Gregynog in August 2008. Chris Williams’s essay, ‘Robert Owen: socialist visionary’, will be published in Llafur: the Journal of Welsh People’s History, volume 10, number 2 (2009). This was originally published by the Co-Operative Group as a pamphlet in 2008 to mark the 150th anniversary of the death of Robert Owen. 

Chris Williams’s essay, ‘Mountains and history in the fiction of Raymond Williams’ will be published in Catherine Lanone and Françoise Besson (eds), Mountains in the English-Speaking World: Between Image and Language (Cambridge Scholars, 2010). 

Chris  Williams’s essay ‘Contesting radical cultures: the cartoons of J. M. Staniforth of the Western Mail’, will be published in Krista Cowman and Ian Packer (eds), Radical Cultures (Cambridge Scholars, 2010 or 2011)