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New Look on Welsh Identity by Renowed Author
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The renowed historian Gerald Morgan has published an informal, wide-ranging guide to Wales. Looking for Wales (Y Lolfa) is a pocket-sized introductory guide for the curious and inquisitive reader.
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How did dragons, goats and leeks become symbols of Welsh identity? Did Cardiff really want to become the Welsh capital? And where did all the Joneses come from? Looking for Wales answers these – and other – questions while also providing more conventional information on Welsh castles, churches as well as Welsh music, literature and sport.
“Looking for Wales is presented as an introductory guide to Wales, but I would argue that it’s a must-read for every Welshman,” says the author Gerald Morgan. “I can promise any Welshman or Welshwoman, however learned they may be, that there’s something in this book they don’t know about their country!”
Every page is informed by Gerald Morgan’s lifetime interest in Wales and its culture. The author is a respected historian, teacher and author who admits that he has “been in love with the history of Wales since I was ten years old…”. His other published works include Castles in Wales and Ceredigion: A Wealth of History.
“You may think you can survive without knowing about Winston Churchill and the Welsh goat, about Edith Mair Leonard, John Graham Chambers or Samothes, but I would like to persuade you otherwise.”
Similar to A Brief History of Wales, another one of Morgan’s popular guides, Looking for Wales is an easily digestable, pocketable and affordable introductory guide to Wales, priced at £4.95.
Gerald Morgan lives in Aberystwyth. After teaching English at Ysgol Maes Garmon, Mold, and at Ysgol Gyfun Aberteifi, he served 22 years as headteacher first of Ysgol Gyfun Llangefni and then of Ysgol Gyfun Penweddig, Aberystwyth. A second career saw him teaching Welsh and local history in Aberystwyth University. He has published numerous books and articles on a wide range of subjects, focussing on Welsh history.
