Forgotten Army

Mari A. Williams was formerly a Research Fellow and Project Leader at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth. She currently works as a translator for Conwy County Borough Council, is the author of The Welsh Language in 1891 (1999, with Gwenfair Parry) and co-editor (with Geraint Jenkins) of 'Let's Do Our Best For The Ancient Tongue': The Welsh Language in the Twentieth Century (2000).

This book is especially valuable because it is sensitively attuned to the distinctive context of industrial South Wales as well as contributing to a wider understanding of women's history in twentieth century Britain this is a clearly articulated and important book which deserves to be widely read '