Welsh Journals

IN April 1971 a colloquium on Welsh labour history was held at the University College of Swansea. It was felt that the eight lectures delivered there were of such quality and importance that a perman- ent record of them should be provided. The editor proposed to the Board of Celtic Studies that a special volume of the WELSH HISTORY REVIEW should be published for this purpose, and the present number is the result. It is hoped that readers not primarily concerned with labour history will find interest in this volume, particularly as a guide to the major research being conducted into recent Welsh social and political history by younger scholars in the national university. It should be explained that two admirable lectures delivered at the colloquium have been omitted. One, by Professor Ieuan Gwynedd Jones, was published as his inaugural lecture at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, under the title The Dynamics of Politics in Mid-Nineteenth Century Wales (Univer- sity of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1971). The other, by Dr. John Saville of the University of Hull, on 'Ideology and the Miners', will be incorporated in a symposium on ideology that Dr. Saville is now preparing. The editor would like to thank all contributors for their readiness to provide their lectures for publication in this form. Those with a more specialist interest in labour history may care to join either or both of two new societies, The Society for the Study of Welsh Labour History (secretary, Mr. David Smith, Department of History, University College of Swansea), and the Welsh Labour History Association (secretary, Dr. Goronwy Alun Hughes, Talwrn Glas, Afonwen, Caerwys, Flintshire). The journals of these bodies, Llafur and Hanes Weithwyr Cymru: Welsh Labour History, first appeared in May 1972 and the summer of 1970 respectively. Both are well worth purchase and study. EDITORIAL K.O.M.