'Tocqueville Between East and West' by Demin Duan is out now! This book adopts an Eastern or Chinese perspective on Alexis de Tocqueville’s political thought, highlighting the ‘aristocratic’ nature of his theory of freedom. 📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/tocquev...

We had a wonderful evening celebrating the launch of 'Dafydd Elis-Thomas: Nation Builder' by Aled Eirug on Tuesday! Diolch yn fawr to all who attended and especially to Aled, Felicity Evans, Richard Wyn Jones, Mark Drakeford and Elin Jones for their wonderful contributions. 📹 Tane Rogers-Eirug

Publishing today! 📚 Dafydd Elis-Thomas was one of the most outstanding Welsh public figures of the last fifty years. In this new biography, Aled Eirug explores the political life of the controversial politician who changed the face of Wales. 📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/dafydd-...

Maverick or establishment stooge? Traitor or nation builder? Aled Eirug speaks to Martin Shipton about the life and legacy of Dafydd Elis-Thomas wp.me/p8Mk4U-161r wp.me/p8Mk4U-161r

GOTHIC PRECARITY Delighted with Professor Nicholas Royle’s endorsement of my first book, Gothic Precarity. His own work, on the uncanny, is a landmark text and informed my own research. #Gothic #GothicPrecarity @uniwalespress.bsky.social www.uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-...

'Gothic Precarity: Fear and Anxiety in Twenty-First-Century Fiction' by @drtimrideout.bsky.social offers a ground-breaking examination of the Gothic mode's conceptual affinity with notions of neoliberal precarity. 📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-...

We are all set up at @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social Gorwelion conference! Make sure to visit our stand to browse our Celtic and Wales studies books at 20% off 📚 Unable to attend in person? Browse our online stand via the link below! www.uwp.co.uk/gorwelion-cy...

Are you attending the @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social conference this week? Stop by the UWP stand to browse our wide range of Celtic Studies and Welsh History books available at 20% off 📚 Can't attend in person? Browse our online stand through the link below ⤵️ www.uwp.co.uk/gorwelion-cy...

Heno! Tonight! Pob lwc to Calon author Gwyneth Lewis who has been nominated for the Sky Arts Literature Award! Make sure to tune in to Sky Arts (channel 36 on Freeview) from 9pm for the results! Read more here: skyartsawards.sky

This will be excellent.

Join @danielgwydion.bsky.social, M. Wynn Thomas, Rhianwen Daniel, and Black Hawk Hancock in a fascinating panel conversation chaired by Alan Sandry, author of 'Wittgenstein in Swansea'. 📅 8 October 🕒 3pm 📍 Tabernacle URC Church, Newton Road, Mumbles

We are thrilled to be joining @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social to celebrate their 40th anniversary this week! We will have a wide selection of Celtic and Wales Studies books for you to browse and buy at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth for the CAWCS Gorwelion International Conference.

PUBLICATION DAY! I am delighted to announce that Gothic Precarity: Fear and Anxiety in Twenty-First-Century Fiction is published today! The Gothic has always been a literature of unease, but today it feels especially urgent. @uniwalespress.bsky.social www.uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-...

First, Ffion Mair Jones's 'Thomas Pennant: Cysylltiadau Cymreig', published by @gwasgprifcymru.bsky.social

Two members of the Curious Travellers team will be launching books including Thomas Pennant at the Gorwelion Conference this week!

Huge thanks to Gill Hart and Sasha Drennan for the party yesterday evening to launch my book, Gothic Precarity, at @LindumBooks. Lovely to see so many kind friends celebrating publication ❤️ #GothicPrecarity @uniwalespress.bsky.social

"In sum, we shall see how the peculiar properies of animal-naming stopped language from going entirely to the dogs." Ben Parsons, "Introducing Medieval Animal Names" (@uniwalespress.bsky.social / @uchicagopress.bsky.social) 🧑‍🍳💋<chef's kiss> #Booksky

'Against Borges is an exceptional book.' A wonderful review of Patrcia N. Klingenberg's 'Against Borges: Four Women Writers of his Inner Circles' in the most recent issue of Hispania! Follow the link to discover more about this 'insightful' and 'provocative' book www.uwp.co.uk/book/against...

'DeVirgilis’ anthology is a crucial resource for scholars and educators in Gothic studies.' Discover more about 'The Female Vampire in Hispanic Literature', edited by Megan DeVirgilis, brilliantly reviewed in Supernatural Studies via the link below 📚 www.supernaturalstudies.com/reviews/book...

Had Juliet Capulet asked Prof. Ben Parsons "What's in a name?" he would very likely have replied "Where medieval animals are concerned, plenty!" His new book "Introducing Medieval Animal Names" is now available from both @uniwalespress.bsky.social and @uchicagopress.bsky.social. #Booksky

Join author David Stephenson for the online launch of his new book 'Heirs to the Princes' with the Mortimer History Society 📚 🕢7:30pm 📅24 September 📍 Online Zoom event Follow the link below for more information: mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk/events/

Unable to attend last week's Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies conference? Catch up with Josep-Anton Fernàndez who spoke about his book 'The Other Catalans: Representations of Immigration in Catalan Literature' 📚 Stream the event here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRIj...

🎇📚 SHORTLISTED! 📚🎇 We are absolutely delighted that Gwyneth Lewis's bold and honest memoir 'Nightshade Mother' has been shortlisted for the Sky Arts Literature award! Make sure to tune in to the ceremony on 16 September! www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/articl...

📢Cynhadledd GORWELION Conference 🗓 17-19/09/2025 📍Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru @librarywales.bsky.social 🗣Prif siaradwyr / Plenaries: Mererid Hopwood, Barry Lewis, & Ian Stewart. 🔗Rhagor o fanylion / Further information: www.wales.ac.uk/cy/canolfan/...

Join Thomas Quinnell, author of 'The Brontës as Gothic Writers', at Re-mapping the Brontës: Place, Race and Empire in Bradford on 6th September. Thomas will be giving his paper ‘Harp of wild and dream-like strain’: How the Brontës’ Irishness shaped their writing'. www.bronte.org.uk/index.php/ac...

The Welsh North American Association celebrates its 96th North American Festival of Wales this week! Based in the US? Browse UWP's virtual booth with @uchicagopress.bsky.social and receive 30% off a selection of Wales Studies books 📚 Code: FESTWALES30 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/vi...

'It is destined to become the authoritative, go-to resource'. An excellent review of Catherine O’Leary and Michael Thompson's 'Theatre Censorship in Spain, 1931-1985' by Ramón Espejo Romero! Read more in the latest issue of the Hispanic Research Journal: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I can say without reservation that this is groundbreaking work that extends the remit of the gothic and its global relevance in the contemporary.

IT ACTUALLY EXISTS! My first book - Gothic Precarity - now actually exists! It will be published on Monday 15th September and is available to pre-order now: www.uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-... In the meantime, please forgive me while I gaze at these… #Gothc #gothicprecarity #precarity #neoliberalism

Out now! 'Beyond the Lesbian Vampire' investigates the violent lesbian’s resurgence and reclamation within contemporary queer horror. 🩸📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/beyond-...

We are thrilled to have published a new edition of 'The Welsh Nationalist Party, 1925-1945: A Call to Nationhood' by D. Hywel Davies. This work examines the nature of the Welsh Nationalist Party, the philosophy and policies it embraced, the methods it used, and its organisational character.

New in paperback! 📚 'Made by Labour: A Material and Visual History of British Labour, c. 1780-1924' narrates the history of British labour in its most crucial phase of development through over ninety beautifully illustrated, expertly contextualised objects. 📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/made-by...

Can’t wait to get my hands on this full volume! Absolutely delighted to have been asked to contribute in honor of my doctoral advisor.

Publishing in September 📚 Dafydd Elis-Thomas was one of the outstanding Welsh public figures of the last fifty years. In 'Dafydd Elis-Thomas: Nation Builder', Aled Eirug explores the political life of the controversial politician who changed the face of Wales. 📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/dafydd-...

It's a blood red-letter day! Vera Dika's early, studious, practically geometric breakdown of the slasher film, from the stalkers to the survivors, is updated and lookin' good. One to buy. @uniwalespress.bsky.social @danieljsheppard.bsky.social ‬ @wick85c.bsky.social www.uwp.co.uk/book/games-o...

All at the University of Wales Press are saddened to learn of the passing of our colleague John Morgan-Guy. John was a much-respected author and editor, known for his expert contributions to the Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture ... (1/2)

At the Eisteddfod last week. Talking about how thinking about the future needs to start with history.

'Imagination and Innovation in Medieval Celtic Literatures' is out now Edited by Helen Fulton and Georgia Henley, this collection goes beyond the familiar canon of medieval Celtic literatures to showcase a range of texts that are compelling in their literary imagination and technical innovation.

With great sadness UWP learned of the passing of historian and author Dr R. Brinley Jones CBE. In addition to his invaluable research, Dr Jones was UWP’s first formal Director during the period 1969 to 1976, ... (1/2)

Wonderful to see so many UWP books on Siop Inc's stand at the @eisteddfod.cymru! Make sure to stop by to browse whilst you're exploring the Maes 📚

The Medieval Animals series from @uniwalespress.bsky.social is an absolute delight! The volumes on dragons, asses, swans, and foxes have all been brilliant. I'm very pleased to see the announcement for this most recent addition to it. (Still keeping my fingers crossed for eels. 😉) #Booksky

BLOG: Introducing Medieval Animal Names What did medieval people call the animals they lived and worked with? Why did they give them the names they did? Ben Parsons introduces his book on our blog: ➡️ www.uwp.co.uk/introducing-...

It's the @eisteddfod.cymru in #Wrecsam this week! Head to the Books Council of Wales stand and browse all the brilliant UWP books they have available 📚

What role does memory play in creating the history of a nation? 'Memory and Nation' brings together exciting new research on writing and performing the history of Wales, from the Middle Ages to the modern period. Order your copy: www.uwp.co.uk/book/memory-...

'This is a delightful and informative book that will be of interest to scholars and a public audience.' A lovely review of Paul Wackers' 'Introducing the Medieval Fox' in the most recent issue of Speculum! Discover more about this 'charming' book here: www.uwp.co.uk/book/introdu... #MedievalSky

'This is a very thoughtful and well researched volume.' An excellent review of Michaela Jacques's 'meticulous' and 'forensic' 'Grammar and Poetry in Late Medieval and Early Modern Wales' by @collen105.bsky.social in 'Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies'. Read more here: www.uwp.co.uk/book/grammar...

So pleased (and honoured) to be part of this impressive line up for the autumn ❤️ @uniwalespress.bsky.social #Gothic #precarity #neoliberalism #GothicPrecarity

Got the first copy of my book in the mail today from @uniwalespress.bsky.social! My teen self is screaming! Thank you Harry Benshoff and Heather Petrocelli @queerforfear.com for these wonderful endorsements! and thank you @jeniferprince.bsky.social for the fabulous cover art! #firstbook #queerhorror

Happy 1st Birthday to International Velvet!🥳 linktr.ee/neilcollins123 Huge thanks to @calonbooks.bsky.social, @uniwalespress.bsky.social and everyone who has a bought a copy or attended the live events. Please spread the word. Any reviews on Amazon or Goodreads would be much appreciated! Diolch.