Welsh Language Before the Industrial Revolution

Professor Geraint H. Jenkins is Professor Emeritus and Honorary Senior Fellow of CAWCS.

• The Welsh language before 1536, Llinos Beverley Smith; the Welsh language in early modern Wales, Geraint H. Jenkins, Richard Suggett and Eryn M. White; Tudor legislation and the political status of the "British tongue", Peter R. Roberts; the Welsh language and the Court of Great Sessions, Richard Suggett; the Welsh language in local government - justices of the peace and the Courts of Quarter Sessions c. 1536-1800, J. Gwynfor Jones; unity of religion or unity of language? Protestants and Catholics and the Welsh language 1536-1660, Glanmor Williams; the established church, dissent and the Welsh language c.1660-1811, Eryn M. White; humanist learning, education and the Welsh language 1536-1660, William P. Griffith; popular schooling and the Welsh language 1650-1800, Eryn M. White; the Welsh language in scholarship and culture 1536-1660, R. Geraint Gruffydd; the cultural uses of the Welsh language 1660-1800, Geraint H. Jenkins; the Celtic languages of Britain, Brynley F. Roberts.

'This book...left me with a vivid sense of the vitality and resilience of the Welsh language, and of its central importance in forming the identity of the Welsh people...essential reading for anyone interested in the history of Wales.' Welsh History Review