Globalising Welsh Studies

Charlotte Williams OBE, FLSW, is Professor Emeritus in the School of History, Law and Social Science at Bangor University.Neil Evans has been Honorary Research Fellow at Bangor University since 1993; Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 1991; and Vice-President of Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society, since 2020.

• ContributorsEditorial: Globalising Welsh StudiesNeil Evans and Charlotte WilliamsIntroductory Essay: (White Man) In Asmara Cafe: Scenes From Microcosmopolitan WalesDylan MoorePart One: Re-examining History And Heritage1 A Deliberately Forgotten History? Wales and Imperialism in Modern History WritingRhys Owens2 The ‘descendant of Ham’: a critical analysis of the biography of John Ystumllyn by Alltud EifionGareth Evans-Jones3 The East India Company and Country Houses in the Welsh MarchesEleanor Stephenson4 Caribbean and West African Seamen in a Welsh Port, 1871–1939: The Seamen’s Boarding House and the growth and development of Settlement in CardiffJoseph RadcliffePart Two: Decolonising the Archive5 Remember or remove? Race, ethnicity and public commemorationPeter Wakelin6 Museums in Wales: Identities, Empire and SlaveryMarian Gwyn7 Phillips Must Fall: Histories and Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism at St David’s College, LampeterAlexander ScottPart Three: Social And Cultural Change8 Very Black and Very Welsh: Race, National Identity and Welsh Writers of Colour in Post Devolution WalesLisa Sheppard9 Black Welsh Cinema as Afro-futurist movementYvonne Connike10 ‘The First Condition of Freedom’: A Century of Anti-Racist Resistance in CardiffNeil Evans, Emily Pemberton and Huw Williams11 An Anti-Racist Plan for Wales: Prospects and LimitationsEmmanuel OgbonnaIndex

Placing Wales in the world locates the nation “ and understandings of the nation “ within its broader, global interconnections. This remarkable volume draws attention to the place of Wales within the overseas colonial project and examines the legacies of those colonial connections back home. The range of excellent contributions address issues of labour migration, devolution, race equality, the challenges of heritage work, as well as the ongoing processes of social and cultural change within Wales. This is a superb opener for a series that will ground scholarly work on Wales in the context of its diverse histories and histories of diversity.