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The University of Wales Press (Welsh: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru) was founded in 1922 as a central service of the University of Wales. [2] The press publishes academic journals and around seventy books a year in the English and Welsh languages on six general subjects: history, political philosophy and religious studies, Welsh and Celtic studies, literary studies, European studies and medieval studies.
Much of the contents of the current Special Collections were originally housed in the old university library, now known as the Founder's Library, in the St. David's Building. This was built between 1822 and 1827, for the then enormous sum of £21,000; from 1837, the library was extended to house the collections donated by Burgess and Phillips.
He was Librarian of the National Library of Wales between 2013 and 2015. [1] Biography ... University of Wales Press, 2000, 379-404; Powers of the Press.
In 2015, the University of Wales Press announced a successor journal: the Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture. [1] The journal has been digitized by the Welsh Journals Online project at the National Library of Wales.
Crick is editor-in-chief (2021-present) of The Computer Journal, [8] published by Oxford University Press, and an editor (2020-present) of the Wales Journal of Education, [9] published by University of Wales Press. He was also an inaugural Commissioner of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales from 2018 to 2022. [10]
Sir Rhys ap Thomas and his Family: A Study in the Wars of the Roses and Early Tudor Politics, 2nd edn, with a new introduction, University of Wales Press, 2014. ISBN 9781783160143 (ed. with Peter Wakelin), Hidden Histories: Discovering the Heritage of Wales (Aberystwyth: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, 2008)
The press was reopened under the Welsh title Gwasg Gregynog by the University of Wales in 1978, and production resumed. While the National Library permanently loaned the Press its original Victoria platen press in 1980, since 1986, it has primarily printed with a Heidelberg Cylinder Press . [ 5 ]
The library has a memorial plaque dedicated to Webb installed in 1997 reading 'poet and librarian, bardd a llyfrgellydd, ... University of Wales Press.