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Writing Welsh History, 1850–1950: Contexts and Comparisons

20–22 July 2011
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A Conference to Mark the Centenary of J.E. Lloyd’s History of Wales (1911)

(This conference has taken place. Information has been retained for the archive.)

Speakers include:

Robert Evans – Ian Wood – Gwyneth Tyson Roberts – Huw Pryce – Paul O'Leary – Prys Morgan – Marion Löffler – Peter Lambert – Bill Jones – Lowri Hughes – Ralph Griffiths – Adam Kosto – Neil Evans – John Ellis – Nancy Edwards – Thomas Charles-Edwards – Dauvit Broun – Ciaran Brady – Stefan Berger

Topics include:

• National Historiography, 1850–1950
• Creating Academic Disciplines
• Lloyd's Predecessors
• Beyond National History
• Celtic Comparisons
• European Perspectives
• Popularizing the Past
• New Directions

J.E. Lloyd (1861-1947) is widely recognised as having established Welsh history as an academic discipline, thanks in particular to his A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest, written in ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ, where he spent nearly all of his career. To mark the centenary of the History's publication this conference will reflect on the writing of Welsh history during Lloyd's lifetime and set it in the context both of development in Wales and of historical writing elsewhere in Europe. The conference brings together historians interested in the modern historiography of the Midele Ages - the main chronological focus of Lloyd's work - as well as specialists in modern history and culture, and explores the diverse ways in which the Welsh past was imagined and interpreted from the Victorian period to the aftermath of the Second World War.