Selected publications

Books

• (ed., with Matthew Cragoe), Wales and War: Religion, Society and Politics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007)
• (ed., with D. Tanner, W. P. Griffith & A. Edwards), Debating Nationhood and Government in Britain, 1885-1945: Perspectives from the 'Four Nations' (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006)
• (ed., with Jane Aaron), Postcolonial Wales (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005)
• (ed.), A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004)
• (ed., with Bill Jones), B. L. Coombes, These Poor Hands: The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002)
• (ed., with Duncan Tanner & Deian Hopkin), The Labour Party in Wales, 1900-2000 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000)
• (with Bill Jones), B. L. Coombes (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999)
• (ed., with Bill Jones), With Dust Still In His Throat: A B. L. Coombes Anthology (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999)
• Capitalism, Community and Conflict: The South Wales Coalfield, 1898-1947 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998)
• Democratic Rhondda: Politics and Society, 1885-1951 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1996)

Book-chapters & journal articles

• 'Taffs in the Trenches: Welsh National identiy and Military Service, 1914-1918', in M. Cragoe &  C. Williams, eds., Wales and War: Religion, Society and Politics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007), 126-164
• 'The dilemmas of nation and class in Wales, 1914-1945', in D. Tanner, C. Williams, W. P. Griffith & A. Edwards, eds., Debating Nationhood and Government in Britain, 1885-1945: Perspectives from the 'Four Nations' (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006), 146-168
• 'The United Kingdom', in T. Baycroft & M. Hewitson (eds.), What is a Nation? Europe, 1789-1914  (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 272-292
• ' "That boundless ocean of mountains": British alpinists and the appeal of the Canadian Rockies, 1885-1920', International Journal of the History of Sport , 2 (2005), 70-87
• 'Problematizing Wales: an exploration in postcoloniality and historiography', in J. Aaron & C. Williams, eds., Postcolonial Wales (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005), 3-22
• 'British identities', in C. Williams, ed., A Companion to Nineteenth-CenturyBritain (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004), 534-552
• ‘A post-national Wales?’, Agenda: The Journal of the Institute of Welsh Affairs (Winter, 2003)
• ' "Decorous and creditable"? The Irish in Newport’, in P. O. Leary, ed., Irish Migrants in Modern Wales (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2003), 54-82
• ' "The great hero of the Newport Rising”: Thomas Phillips, reform and Chartism', Welsh History Review, 21 (2003), 481-511
• 'Wales’s "unionist-nationalist": Sir Thomas Phillips, 1801-67', Llafur: Welsh People’s History Journal, 8 (2003)
• ' "One damn election after another": politics and the local dimension', Family and Community History,  5 (2002)
• 'The odyssey of Frank Hodges', Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, Transactions, 1998 (1999)
• (with Bill Jones), 'The B. L. Coombes archive', Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays, 5 (1999)
• (with Bill Jones), 'B. L. Coombes: A South Wales "miner-writer" ', Y Drychh (Rhagfyr / December, 1999)
• ' "Going underground"? The future of coalfield history revisited', Morgannwg: The Journal of Glamorgan History, 42 (1998)
• 'Master of a lost past: the novels of Alexander Cordell', Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, 121 (1997)
• 'Cymreictod Casnewydd' ['The Welshness of Newport'], Barn, 118 (1997)
• (with Bill Jones and Brian Roberts), ' "Going from darkness to the light": South Wales miners’ attitudes towards nationalisation', Llafur: The Journal of Welsh Labour History, 7 (1996)
• 'History, heritage and commemoration: Newport 1839-1989', Llafur: The Journal of Welsh Labour History, 6 (1992)
• 'Museums: centres for learning, or Disneyland?', Labour History Review, 57 (1992)
• 'The South Wales Miners’ Federation', Llafur: The Journal of Welsh Labour History , 5 (1990)
• ' "An able administrator of capitalism"? The Labour Party in the Rhondda, 1917-1921’, Llafur: The Journal of Welsh Labour History, 4 (1987)