Completed Projects

• The Poets of the Princes
  The Centre’s first project was an ambitious scheme to edit all the surviving poetry of the Poets of the Princes, who sang between c. 1100 and the Edwardian Conquest of 1282/3 . . .
• The Social History of the Welsh Language
  The second major research project of the Centre, the Social History of the Welsh Language from the first Act of Union in 1536 to the present, was completed in 2001. Its aim was to explain how and why Welsh was replaced to a considerable degree in the modern period by the English language . .
• The Poets of the Nobility  
  The Poets of the Nobility Project was the Centre’s third project. Building on the success of its internationally-acclaimed series of volumes on The Poets of the Princes, the Centre regularly published attractive and scholarly volumes on some of the finest poetry composed in the period between the Edwardian Conquest of 1282/3 and the death of Tudur Aled in 1526 . . .
• The Visual Culture of Wales
  The Visual Culture of Wales Research Project was established at the Centre in 1994, with the intention of researching, writing and publishing a three-volume history of the visual culture of Wales from the Celtic Christian period to the mid-twentieth century . . . 
• The Celtic Languages and Cultural Identity
  Since 1998 an international team of full-time researchers led by Professor John T. Koch has striven to research and to reveal in full detail the connections between the story of the Celtic languages and the cultural history of Europe, tracing the evidence of Celtic speech and the cultures of its speakers from the pre-Roman Iron Age to today . . . 
• Iolo Morganwg and the Romantic Tradition in Wales
  Edward Williams, better known as Iolo Morganwg (1747–1826), was a prime force behind the cultural revival that saw the birth of modern Wales. Over the last five years a team of full-time researchers has been working through his rich and chaotic archive, held at the National Library of Wales . . .