Welsh Journals

EDITORIAL THIS special number has been designed to celebrate the twenty-first anniversary of THE WELSH HISTORY REVIEW. When this journal first appeared in 1960, its editor, Professor Glanmor Williams, wrote that it was intended to cover the entire history of Wales in all its aspects, and to appeal to readers 'who like their history palatable but undiluted'. The extent to which it has flourished since then, including the fact that since 1963 it has appeared twice a year, may indicate that these aims have been realised, and that the journal has established itself as a leading historical publication. The record of the REVIEW since 1960 fully reflects the spectacular progress made in the study of Welsh history in recent years, and the surge of interest in the subject, in schools and universities, among the general public and in the media. If the most striking feature, perhaps, has been the development of Welsh history covering the last two hundred years, contributions to this journal have also shown the immense vitality of research into Roman, dark age, early- and late-medieval, Tudor, Stuart and early eighteenth-century Wales as well. Our authors have varied from established scholars to young research students making their debut in print. We have welcomed, and shall continue to welcome, both. Our contributors have reflected the skills and the disciplinary techniques of the economist, the geogra- pher, the sociologist, the political scientist and the philologist, as well as the methodology of historians of a more traditional kind. Although necessarily a high proportion of our authors have come from Wales, especially its national university, colleges and schools, many have come from elsewhere in Britain, while articles and reviews from the United States, Australia, New Zealand and other counties have shown that the history of Wales provides a theme of absorbing international interest. We hope that this will continue, even though we expect contributions (in both its languages) primarily to come still from Wales itself. Over the past twenty-one years, the editors of this journal have incurred large debts of gratitude on many fronts. We are much indebted to the constant and loyal backing we have received from the History and Law Committee of the Board of Celtic Studies, from two successive university registrars and from two successive directors of the University of Wales Press. Our task has been enor- mously aided by the technical excellence and promptness of our