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Examining how dragons are portrayed in the epic masterworks, Beowulf (Old English), Volsunga saga (Icelandic), Das Nibelungenlied (Middle High German), and þiðrekr saga af Bern (Old Norwegian), Joyce Tally Lionarons explores the relationship between the dragons of medieval Germanic literature and the chaos monsters of Indo-European myth.

The Politics of Co-Opposition reveals how a completely new form of political engagement in the British Isles - the 2021-24 Co-operation Agreement between Plaid Cymru and Welsh Labour - created history and provided the major part of the Welsh Government's policy programme for over three years.

Radicals & Realists is an indispensible companion for all who wish to know how Ireland's political parties have evolved, and how their electoral journeys are shaping the future of the island they share.

Place-Names of Carmarthenshire is the first publication to investigate all major place-names in the historic county of Carmarthen (1536-1974), including the westerly parts of the county transferred to modern Pembrokeshire after 1996. Tracing the history of Welsh place-names casts light upon the ways in which our ancestors lived and how they thought about the world around them. The meaning of place-names, however, is not always easy to determine because their written and spoken forms have often changed over time and particularly when the language in a particular location switched from Welsh to English. Fortunately, Carmarthenshire was not so markedly affected in this respect as many other parts of Wales but it is still easy to be mislead by modern spellings. Illustrated with many images of the county, Place-Names of Carmarthenshire examines more than 920 place-names and features a 1,000-entry Glossary of place-name elements, personal names and rivers, and is the result of the author's detailed research in archives and reference libraries.

Profiles 50 Cardiff boxers, from the days of the prize ring. This book includes stars of both professional and amateur codes, world champions and Commonwealth Games medal winners.

Mr Jones: The Man Who Knew Too Much, is the first full biography of Gareth Jones and reveals the remarkable yet tragically short life of this fascinating and determined Welshman who pioneered the role of investigative journalism.

Essential reading for all with an interest in Scottish politics, and to political scientists studying the dynamics and role of referendums, Peter Lynch investigates the three purely Scottish referendums of 1979, 1997 and 2014 when Scotland voted No, then Yes, to devolution and No to independence.

The Public Affairs Guide to Wales is the essential handbook for organisations seeking to effectively and ethically lobby the Welsh Government and the National Assembly (Senedd), and is packed with invaluable advice on devising public affairs strategies and campaigns that achieve success on a limited budget.

Morgan Jones - Man of Conscience, is the first biography of a remarkable politician who was imprisoned in Wormwood Scrubs for his pacifist beliefs during the First World War, but who made history by becoming the first conscientious objector to be elected an MP when he won the Caerphilly by-election for Labour in 1921.

This is an introduction to the Basque Country for the student and the general reader. Providing comprehensive coverage of this region of Europe, the book traces the political, cultural and linguistic history of the Basque Country and its struggle for independence.

This study presents an analysis of how the myth of the American West originated and why. The author asserts that the Wild West of Hollywood and American folklore is nothing more than a functional myth. It also posits that the myth has outgrown the original purpose of its inventors.

This is the story of how, on September 8th, 1936, a minister, a university lecturer and a school teacher set fire to the half-built RAF aerodrome at Penyberth, then calmly reported their actions to the police at nearby Pwllheli, in North Wales.

An essential analyses of the referendum roles and activities of the Conservatives, Scottish Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish National Party and Scottish Socialist Party during the campaign.

Available for the first time in paperback, this anthology of 50 folktales is an excellent introduction to the rich oral tradition of Finnish folktales for both the general reader and for students of folklore.

The Scottish National Party arrived dramatically in British politics in the 1970s. Now, with devolution, it has emerged as the main opposition party in the Scottish Parliament. SNP: The Scottish National Party explores the party's fortunes from its formation in the 1930s to its performance in the new Parliament. Peter Lynch traces the course of modern Scottish Nationalism, the personalities and the politics that have brought the SNP to this pivotal point in history. Through a range of documentary sources and interviews he provides the inside story of the party's campaign for independence. The book also examines the SNP's electoral prospects in the 2003 Scottish election as the party seeks sufficient support to launch an independence referendum. This book is a timely history of the party that has been the driving force behind constitutional change in Scotland.

Essential reading for all involved in the educational sector in Wales (and beyond), A Class Apart investigates the effectiveness of educational policies, such as the Foundation Phase and Welsh Baccalaureate, introduced by the Welsh Government since devolution in 1999.

In Wordless Secrets, a ground-breaking new study of Persona, Peter Ohlin asserts that the essential Swedish context of the film has been overlooked by Bergman's international audience which has mistakenly preferred to focus on the abstract and metaphysical aspects of Persona.

Lynn R. Wilkinson's Anne Charlotte Leffler and Modernist Drama is the first full-length study of Leffler's dramatic production. It argues that Leffler's plays deserve to be read and performed today alongside those of Ibsen and Strindberg and will serve as a welcome resource for new productions of her plays and studies of her work.

This new edition of a work, first published in 1944, provides the most reliable texts of the Lives of Welsh Saints based upon the Cotton MS in the British Library from 1200.

An essential reference guide for students of Welsh History and Religious Studies in Wales, an impressive selection of academics, teachers and religious experts map out, for the first time, the religious multiplicity and diversity of Wales.

Place-Names of Glamorgan investigates the historical evidence and meanings of more than 1,100 place-names in the historic county of Glamorgan, stretching from Rhossili to Rumney and Rhoose to Rhigos.

The Financial Affairs of David Lloyd George is the first serious and systematic study to examine, assess and analyse Lloyd George's attitude to money and finance and compellingly illustrates how he accumulated great wealth.

Women in Swedish Society is a groundbreaking study by two general practitioners, Annika Forssen and Gunilla Carlstedt, who identified how women's daily lives, in particular their personal circumstances and work experiences - both in salaried employment and in the home - impacted on their health.

Extensively researched and lavishly illustrated, Always Amongst Friends traces the 150-year history of the Cardiff and County Club through a scholarly study of the social and economic history of Cardiff, and celebrates the Club's colourful characters, by exuding the warmth and camaraderie so treasured by its members.

Since Gareth Jones's historic press conference in Berlin in 1933 when he became the first journalist to reveal the existence and extent of the Holodomor, a Soviet-induced famine in Ukraine in which over four million people died, Jones and his professional reputation have been the focus of a determined campaign by those who deny the famine ever happened. Attempts to destroy Jones's character, which would de facto undermine the reliability of his reports of the Holodomor, have increased in recent years following global recognition and acclaim for the importance of his work. Citing his professional connections with the Nazis, including:Flying on Hitler's plane on the day he became German ChancellorHaving a front row seat at a Nazi rally in Frankfurt Noting that he enjoyed a private dinner with Goebbels Having several acquaintances who later took key roles in the Third ReichHis 1935 obituary in a Nazi paper which stated Jones was 'one of us'and his self-confessed love of Germany, speaking fluent German, and making annual visits from 1925-35, there have been a number of accusations that Jones was, in fact, a Nazi sympathiser and fascist collaborator. In this groundbreaking new study, Ray Gamache, an acknowledged expert on Gareth Jones and the reporting of the Holodomor, thoroughly examines Jones's extensive notebooks, letters, articles and speeches to investigate these claims. In Gareth Jones - On Assignment in Nazi Germany 1933-34, Gamache provides a compelling narrative which refutes claims of Jones's Nazi sympathies, stating: 'That he encountered some of the most impactful historical figures and events of the 1930s is beyond dispute, and his reporting of those events offers considerable insight into what responsible journalism looked like at that time.'

A forensic and devastating critique of the Welsh Government's strategies and initiatives since devolution by the respected educationalist Philip Dixon.

Aberfan - Government & Disaster is widely recognised as the definitive study of the disaster. Following meticulous research of public records - kept confidential by the UK Government's 30-year rule - the authors, in this revised second edition, explain how and why the disaster happened and why nobody was held responsible.

The Butcher, in this new edition, deals with the Government's response to the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion. Whilst there have many studies of the uprising from the Jacobite perspective, few have tackled the event from the view of the Government and its supporters.