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South Wales Centre for Historical and Interdisciplinary Research (SWCHIR)

Director: Dr Ray Howell

Deputy Director: Dr Richard C. Allen

Other members of SWCHIR

Maddy Gray

Les James

Jon Kissock

Rachel Lock-Lewis

Associated Members

Iestyn Jones

Angela Morelli

The creation of the South Wales Centre for Historical and Interdisciplinary Research (SWCHIR) in 2007 offers staff at the University of Wales, Newport, a dedicated research environment that meet the needs of the diverse communities and cultures in south Wales. SWCHIR aims to foster better appreciation of the relationship between local, regional and national history, and to contextualise its research by exploring the interaction between communities in different historical periods and environments. The research that has begun to emerge will be given expression in projects and publications produced in the next five years.

The guiding principle behind SWCHIR is to facilitate development of a forum for research-led debate. This will encourage critical dialogue between historians and colleagues in other cognate disciplines. The Centre hopes to raise awareness of the historical evolution of the south Wales landscape, ethnic and religious diversity, gender difference and cultural conflation. The aim is to foster an interdisciplinary approach to regional studies which will have an international impact and foster a wide cross-section of historical interests, creating interdisciplinary synergies. The rich archival and artefactual holdings in south Wales repositories afford opportunities to foster empirical investigations into otherwise under-researched regional projects. This emphasis underpins the Centre's strategy to develop cutting-edge research, new historical methodologies and inter-disciplinary perspectives. Thus far the Centre has prioritised single-authored works and inter-disciplinary contributions to collections such as The Gwent County History. SWCHIR encourages wider community involvement in its work, especially research which focuses upon the relationship between history and heritage. It will cooperate with agencies such as the Centre for Border Studies, WISCA and the Regional History Centre at the University of the West of England. Close ties have been established with record offices in south Wales, the National Museum of Wales, Herian (‘Heritage in Action'), and the South Wales Record Society.

Publications from SWCHIR

Books

Major Edited Works

  • Maddy Gray and Prys Morgan (eds), The Gwent County History Vol. 3: Gwent c 1530-1780 (in press. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2008)
  • Ray Howell, Ralph Griffiths and Tony Hopkins (eds),The Gwent County History Vol. 2, Gwent in the Middle Ages, 1070-1536 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2008)
  • Ray Howell with M. Aldhouse-Green (eds), The Gwent County History Vol. 1, Gwent in Prehistory and Early History (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004)
  • Ray Howell (ed.), Archaeology and the National Curriculum in Wales (Cardiff: National Museum of Wales, CBA, Cadw, 1994)
  • Ray Howell (ed.), Archaeoleg a'r Cwricwlwm Cenedlaethol yng Ngymru (Caerdydd: Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymry, CBA, Cadw)

Monographs and Teacher's Guides

  • Ray Howell, The Romans (Llandeilo: The National Trust, 1991)
  • Ray Howell, Y Rhufeiniaid (Llandeilo: Yr Ymddiriedolaeth Genedlaethol, 1991)
  • Ray Howell, Yr Hen Iaith: a history of the Welsh language in Gwent (Cwmbran: Gwent County Council, 1989)
  • Ray Howell, Norman Gwent (Cwmbran: Gwent County Council, 1988)
  • Ray Howell, The Kingdom of Gwent (Cwmbran: Gwent County Council, 1986)

Selected Articles

  • Richard C. Allen, ‘Turning hearts to break off the yoke of oppression.' The travels and sufferings of Christopher Meidel c .1659- c .1715', Quaker Studies, 12.1 (September 2007), 54-72
  • Richard C. Allen, ‘In search of a New Jerusalem. A preliminary investigation into Welsh Quaker emigration to North America c .1660-1750', Quaker Studies, 9.1 (September 2004), 31-53
  • Richard C. Allen, “Mocked, scoffed, persecuted, and made a gazeing stock': The resistance of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) to the religious and civil authorities in post-toleration south-east Wales c.1689-1836', Cycnos. Publications de la Faculté des Lettres de Nice, (2003), 23-47
  • Richard C. Allen, ‘An Example of Quaker Discipline: The case of Dr. Charles Allen Fox and the Cardiff Quakers', Journal of Welsh Religious History, New Series, 1 (Winter 2001), 46-73
  • Richard C. Allen, ‘Wizards or charlatans ­ doctors or herbalists? An appraisal of the ‘cunning men' of Cwrt-y-Cadno, Carmarthenshire', The North American Journal of Welsh Studies, 1.2 (Summer 2001), 68-85
  • M. Gray, 'A Welsh Saint at Westminster', Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, (2007)
  • M. Gray (with John Morgan-Guy), ‘A Better and Frugal Life: Llanllugan and the Cistercian women's houses in Wales ', in Madeleine Gray and Peter Webster (ed.), Cistercians in Wales and the West (Archaeologia Cambrensis special number, vol 154, 2005)
  • M. Gray, ‘The medieval bishops' effigies at Llandaff Cathedral', Archaeologia Cambrensis vol 153 (2004), 37-50
  • M. Gray, 'Wayside Crosses in Monmouthshire', Monmouthshire Antiquarian vol 20 (2004), 61-81
  • M. Gray (with Eluned Martin), 'Images of the Crucified Christ in Medieval Gwent', Journal of Welsh Religious History, new series, 3 (2003), 1-22
  • M. Gray, ‘Women of holiness and power: the cults of St Radegund and St Mary Magdalene at Usk', Monmouthshire Antiquary, xviii (2002), 3-11
  • Ray Howell, ‘Discovery and Excavation: Trelech', The Medieval Settlement Research Group Annual Report, (2006)
  • Ray Howell, ‘The Roads of Trelech: Investigation of the Development of the Medieval Town', The Monmouthshire Antiquary, (2005)
  • Ray Howell, ‘The excavation of a possible inn/pilgrim's hospice at Trelech, Gwent', Archaeology in Wales, 2003 (published 2004)
  • Ray Howell, ‘Research excavations in the decayed medieval town of Trelech ', The Monmouthshire Antiquary (2003) ay Howell, “Roman Survival – Welsh Revival: the Evidence of Reuse of Roman Remains', The Monmouthshire Antiquary (2001)
  • Ray Howell with Pollard, J., ‘Lodge Wood Camp, Caerleon', Archaeology in Wales (2001)
  • Ray Howell, ‘The demolition of the Roman tetrapylon in Caerleon: an erasure of memory?', Oxford Journal of Archaeology (2000)
  • Ray Howell, ‘Development by Design – an investigation of thirteenth century industrialisation and urban growth at Trelech, Gwent', Studia Celtica (2000)
  • Jonathan Kissock (with R.A. S. Johnston), ‘Sheephouses and sheepcotes – a study of the post-medieval landscape of Cefn Drum, Gower', Studia Celtica, 41 (2007), 1-23
  • Jonathan Kissock (with T.M. Davies), ‘The feet of fines, the land market and the English agricultural crisis of 1315 to 1322', Journal of Historical Geography, 30 (2004), 215 – 30
  • Jonathan Kissock, ‘The ecclesiastical and demesne mills of Gower - a fourteenth century perspective', Melin: Journal of the Welsh Mills Society, 18 (2002), 2 – 13
  • Jonathan Kissock, (with, N. Wright, C. Lovegrove, K. Pollard and A. Schlesinger), ‘A medieval charcoal burning platform at Llanelen, Llanrhidian', Journal of the Gower Society, 53 (2002), 39 - 47
  • Jonathan Kissock, ‘The upland dimension: further conjectures on early medieval settlement in Gower', Morgannwg, 45, (2001), 55 - 68
  • Jonathan Kissock, (with, N. Wright, C. Lovegrove, K. Pollard and A. Schlesinger), ‘A medieval charcoal burning platform at Llanelen, Gower', Studia Celtica, 35 (2001), 143 – 159
  • Jonathan Kissock (with T.M. Davies), ‘The dangers of shortcuts: the feet of fine and Lansdowne manuscripts 306, 307 and 308', The Local Historian, 31 (2001), 107 - 9
  • John Kissock, ‘Farmsteads of a presumed medieval date on Cefn Drum, Gower: an interim assessment', Studia Celtica, 34 (2000), 223 - 48
  • Jonathan Kissock (with A. Schlesinger, C. Walls, C. Lovegrove, K. Pollard and N. Wright), ‘An early church and medieval farmstead site: excavations at Llanelen, Gower', The Archaeological Journal, 153 (1996), 104 - 47, including specialist reports (with J. Rogers) on ‘Skeletal material,' 123 -4; ‘Grain,' 124; ‘Pottery,' 129 – 33, and (with P. Crew and N. Wright), ‘Analysis of the smelting and smithing slags and attempts to locate the iron ore bodies and smelting sites', 139 -42
  • Jonathan Kissock (with A. Schlesinger, C. Walls, C. Lovegrove, K. Pollard. and N. Wright), ‘An early church and medieval farmstead site: excavations at Llanelen, Llanrhidian', Journal of the Gower Society, 46 (1995), 58 - 79
  • Jonathan Kissock, ‘Medieval feet of fines: a study of their uses with a catalogue of published sources', The Local Historian, 24 (1994), 66 - 82
  • Jonathan Kissock, ‘A roulette-decorated Monnow Valley ware jug from Llanelen, Gower', Medieval and Later Pottery in Wales, 14 (1993-4), 9 - 13
  • ‘Some recent examples of co-axial field systems in Pembrokeshire', Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, 40 (1993), 190 - 7
  • Jonathan Kissock, ‘The evidence for wine consumption at Llanelen, Gower', Journal of Wine Research, 2 (1991), 203 - 8
  • Jonathan Kissock, ‘The origins of medieval nucleated rural settlement in Glamorgan: a conjectural model', Morgannwg, 35 (1991), 31 - 49
  • John Kissock, ‘Farms, fields and hedges: aspects of the rural economy of north-east Gower, c.1300 to c.1650', Archaeologia Cambrensis, 140 (1991), 130 - 47
  • Jonathan Kissock, ‘Archaeology and its place in the primary school curriculum', Archaeological Review from Cambridge, 6 (1987), 119 - 28

Chapters

  • Richard C. Allen, 'The making of a Holy Christian Community: Welsh Quaker emigrants to Pennsylvania , c .1680-1750', in Tim Kirk and Luda Klusáková (eds), Cultural Conquests (in press. Prague: Philosophica et Historica, Studia Historica, 2008)
  • Richard C. Allen, 'The Problem of Poor Relief', in M. Gray and P. Morgan (eds), The Gwent County History, Vol. 3: Gwent c 1530-1780 (in press. Cardiff: UWP, 2008)
  • Richard C. Allen and Joan Allen, 'Competing Identities: Irish and Welsh migration to the North-east of England ', in A. J. Pollard and A. G. Green (eds), Identities and North-East England (Woodford: Boydell and Brewer, 2007) , pp. 130-66
  • Richard C. Allen, ''I've come home, and home I'm gonna stay'. The Quiet Man (1952) in Irish-American cinematic history', in Pamela O'Neill (ed.), Exile and Homecoming (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2005), pp. 393-411, and republished in Richard C. Allen and Stephen Regan (eds), Irelands of the Mind: Memory and Identity in Modern Irish Culture (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), pp. 110-28
  • Richard C. Allen, ''Remember me to my good friend Captain Cook': James Cook and the North Yorkshire Quakers', in Glyndwr Williams (ed.), Captain Cook: Explorations and Reassessments (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2004), pp. 21-36
  • Richard C. Allen, 'Establishing an alternative community in the north-east: Quakers, morals and popular culture in the long-eighteenth century', in Helen Berry and Jeremy Gregory (eds), Creating and Consuming Culture in North-East England, 1660-1832 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), pp. 98-119
  • Richard C. Allen, ''A most industrious well-disposed people.' Milford Haven Quakers and the Pembrokeshire Whaling industry c .1791-1821', in Patricia O'Neill (ed.), Nation and Federation in the Celtic World (Sydney: University of Sydney Press, 2003), pp. 64-94
  • Richard C. Allen, 'Taking up her daily cross': Women and the early Quaker Movement in Wales , c .1653-1689', in Michael Roberts and Simone Clarke (eds), Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000), pp. 104-28
  • M. Gray (with Salvador Ryan), 'Mother of mercy: the Virgin Mary and the Last Judgement in Welsh and Irish Tradition', in K. Jankulak, T. O'Loughlin and J. Wooding (eds), Ireland and Wales in the Middle Ages (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007)
  • M. Gray, ‘The pilgrimage as ritual space', in A.T. Smith and A. Brookes (eds), Holy Ground: theoretical issues relating to the landscape and material culture of ritual space (Oxford: BAR Archaeopress, 2001), pp. 91-7
  • Ray Howell, ‘The Romans', in P. Morgan (ed.), Wales, An Illustrated History, (Stroud: Tempus, 2005)
  • Ray Howell, ‘From the Fifth to the Seventh Century', in M. Aldhouse-Green and R. Howell (eds),The Gwent County History Vol. 1, Gwent in Prehistory and Early History (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004)
  • Ray Howell (with J. Pollard), ‘The Iron Age: Settlement and Material Culture', in M. Aldhouse-Green and R. Howell (eds), The Gwent County History Vol. 1, Gwent in Prehistory and Early History (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004)
  • Ray Howell, ‘Roman Wales', in P. Morgan (ed.), A History of Wales (Stroud: Tempus, 2001)
  • Ray Howell, ‘Ironworking at the Medieval Borough of Trelech, Gwent', in P. Crew and S. Crew (eds), Iron for Archaeologists: a review of recent work on the archaeology of early ironworking sites in Europe (Snowdonia National Park: conference proceedings, 1995)
  • Ray Howell, ‘Cloddio am Aur – Mynd am yr Aur', yn Y Rhufeiniaid, gan D.C. Jones a G.R. Jones (London: HMSO, 1994)
  • Jonathan Kissock, ‘Settlement and society,' in R. Howell, R. Griffiths and T. Hopkins (eds), The Gwent County History Vol 2: Gwent in the Middle Ages, 1070 - 1536 (in press. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2008
  • Jonathan Kissock, 'Penvedu in montes: fourteenth century seigneural mills in north Gower, Wales', in Jan Klapste (ed.), Water Management in the Medieval Rural Economy, Ruralia V, Pamatky Archeologicke - Supplementum, 17 (Prague: Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, 2005), 113-18
  • Jonathan Kissock, ‘“God Made Nature and Men Made Towns” : Post-Conquest and Pre-Conquest Villages in Pembrokeshire', in Nancy Edwards (ed.), Landscape and Settlement in Medieval Wales (Oxbow Monograph 81, 1997), pp. 123 – 37

Works of Reference

  • [Richard Allen] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) - 21 entries
  • [Maddy Gray] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) - 3 entries
  • [Ray Howell] Gwyddoniadur Cymru/Encyclopaedia of Wales (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007) – 36 entries

Major Conference Papers

  • Ray Howell, ‘Architectural “Ethnic Cleansing”? – The Destruction of the Roman tetrapylon at Caerleon', York International Conference on the Archaeology of Destruction (2006)
  • Ray Howell, ‘The Role of Ruins', International Conference on Welsh Studies sponsored by University of Wales Swansea, the North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History, and the British Academy (2006)
  • Ray Howell, ‘Cultural Conflation in the Medieval Welsh Marches' Haskins Society sponsored paper, Leeds International Medieval Conference (2004)
  • Ray Howell, ‘Turbulent times, an archaeology of conflict?' Council for British Archaeology Wales, spring conference (2003)
  • Ray Howell, ‘Architectural Ethnic Cleansing in thirteenth century Wales ?' Theoretical Archaeology Group (1999)
  • Leslie James, ' Theme packaging the Chartist story in south Wales – an opportunity for collaboration between history teacher education and heritage tourism', VGN/ HTEN/ EUROCLIO Conference, University of Amsterdam (2007)

Forthcoming

  • Richard C. Allen and Joan Allen (eds), Faith of Our Fathers: Six Centuries of Popular Culture and Belief in Britain and Ireland (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), including a chapter entitled: 'An Alarm Sounded to the Sinners in Sion' (John Kelsall): Quakers and popular culture in eighteenth century Wales'
  • Richard C. Allen, Newport (Cardiff: Histories of Wales Series, University of Wales Press, 2008)
  • Richard C. Allen and Erin Bell, Quaker Networks and Moral Reform in the North East of England (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008)
  • Jonathan Kissock, ‘The coaxial field systems of Pembrokeshire revisited: an ekistic examination‘, in Adrian Chadwick and Helen Wickstead (eds), Recent approaches to the archaeology of land allotment (BAR International Series)
  • Jonathan Kissock (with R.J. Silvester), ‘Wales', in Mark Gardiner and Neil Christie (eds), Studying the villages and settlements of medieval Britain: methods, structures and regional surveys (Medieval Settlement Research Group).

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News

  • Richard Allen is giving a paper entitled '"The Honorable Stock of Ancient Bretons": Welsh Emigrants, Philadelphia, and Cultural Identity” to the Pennsylvania Historical Association Conference, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, October 2008.
  • Rachel Lock-Lewis will be presenting a paper to the ‘Advice to Mothers' workshop at University of Warwick on Friday, 20 June 2008.
  • Les James is giving a paper on 'Stories from the Archives: The Chartist Rising at Newport, 1839' at the Riverfront Theatre, Newport . Wednesday, 11 June 2008 at 1pm.
  • Rachel Lock-Lewis will be talking to the Women's Archive Roadshow at Newport Museum on Friday, 16 May 2008.
  • Richard Allen is giving a paper on 'John Ford's The Quiet Man (1952): An Ireland of the Mind' at the Riverfront Theatre, Newport . Wednesday, 14 May 2008 at 1pm.
  • Maddy Gray is giving a paper at the Sacred Text Sacred Space Conference. Cardiff University. (22 April 2008).
  • Ray Howell presented an S4C programme on Chartism in Wales (in Welsh - 19 Ionawr 2008)
  • Public Lecture (Wednesday 9 January 2008) given by Dr Madeleine Gray of UW, Newport on 'The Cistercian Way: Wales' new heritage path'. This is in association with the Riverfront Theatre, Newport.
  • Congratulations to John Roberts on recently acheiving his PhD in History at UW, Newport.
  • Excavation in Gower
  • Chartist Ancestors Day in Newport, 3 November 2007
  • Roman and Early Medieval Gower: a multidisciplinary research project
  • Launch of Ray Howell's recent book In Search of the Silures

     

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