The 6th Annual Gwyn Alf Williams

Memorial Lecture

Clwb y Bont, Pontypridd

Friday, 27th November at 7.30 pm.

Socialist historian Gwyn Alf Williams was a brilliant writer and spellbinding broadcaster. He was

perhaps the most colourful figure among the remarkable group of Marxist historians who emerged in

the Communist Party after the Second World War.

Since 2003 the Welsh Communist Party has been commemorating this great Marxist historian by holding its annual Gwyn Alf Williams Memorial Lecture.

This year, as we experience another capitalist crisis and a return to mass unemployment, we look to learn from literature covering previous periods of crisis.

Jane Aaron, who teaches postgraduate and undergraduate modules on Welsh writing in English, is the author of A Double Singleness: Gender and the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb (Clarendon Press, 1991), a Welsh-language book on nineteenth-century women’s writing in Wales, Pur fel y Dur: Y Gymraes yn Llên y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg (University of Wales Press, 1998). She also coedited the volumes Out of the Margins: Women’s Studies in the Nineties (Falmer Press, 1991), Our Sisters’ Land: The Changing Identities of Women in Wales (University of Wales Press, 1994), Postcolonial Wales (University of Wales Press, 2005), and edited a number of volumes for the Honno classics series, including an anthology of Welsh women’s short stories, A View across the Valley: Short Stories from Women in Wales 1850-1950 (Honno Press, 1999). Her latest volume is the Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender and Identity (University of Wales Press, 2007), the first in the Gender Studies in Wales series of which she is co-editor.

‘1926 and all that – strikes and

unemployment in Welsh Literature’

Jane Aaron

Professor in Literature, University of Glamorgan

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