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This insightful and revealing collection of essays focuses on seven Welsh women who, in a range of imaginative ways, resisted the status quo in Wales, England and beyond during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Keine Beschreibung.

This insightful and revealing collection of essays focuses on seven Welsh women who, in a range of imaginative ways, resisted the status quo in Wales, England and beyond during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This study of Welsh communities encompasses the female experience and provides a critical perspective on gender. The essays should also offer a valuable comparative angle, aiding a wider understanding of gender history.

The story of a successful actress and writer of novels and non-fiction who became an Edwardian suffragette

The pit brow lasses who sorted coal and performed a variety of jobs above ground at British coal mines prompted a violent debate about women's work in the nineteenth century. Seen as the prime example of degraded womanhood, the pit brow woman was regarded as an aberration in a masculine domain, cruelly torn from her 'natural sphere', the home. The, attempt to restrict women's work at the mines in the 1880s highlights the dichotomy between the ...

Henry Nevison was a renowned British war correspondent (1856 - 1941) who keenly observed the dramatic political and military conflicts of his day. This book is the first major biography, drawing together his commentary over a period of fifty years. In diaries and print, Nevinson tracked wars from Greece to South Africa and covered the key events of the First World War. He exposed slavery in the Portuguese Empire, championed women's suffrage, s...

Originally published in 1991, and made available once again in this new edition, "Our Mothers' Land"had been a pioneering text in the then-nascent field of Welsh women's history. Ranging widely across both time and place, the book explores the many different lifestyles of Welsh women and also addresses the idealized image of Welsh women presented in periodicals, as well as the transgressive actions of advocates for suffrage.

This rich biography tells the remarkable tale of Margaret Haig Thomas who became the Second Viscountess Rhondda. She was a Welsh suffragette, held important posts during the First World War and survived the sinking of the Lusitania. A leading British industrialist, she was also instrumental in securing a seat for women in the House of Lords.

Port Talbot has a claim to fame as the actors' capital of Wales, producing great actors such as Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins and Michael Sheen. The historical biographer from Port Talbot suggests explanations for this phenomenon as it surveys the careers of 50 actors from Port Talbot.

The town of Port Talbot has long been seen (quite literally) as synonymous with the steel industry. Yet it also has another claim to fame as the actors' capital of Wales. It has produced a remarkable number of actors since the inter-war years.