Current Projects

• The Poetry of Guto’r Glyn
  From the fifteenth century to the present day Guto’r Glyn ( c .1435– c. 1493) has been acknowledged as one of the greatest poets – if not the greatest – to sing in the Welsh praise-poetry tradition, a tradition which reaches back to the sixth century . . .  An on-line electronic edition, to be published by 2012, will include an English translation of the poems and notes on key issues of interest . . . 
• Ancient Britain and the Atlantic Zone
  The research initiative recognizes a potential paradigm shift in Celtic studies. Arguments based in archaeology and genetics have recently been put forward in favour of Celtic origins in the Atlantic Bronze Age rather than the central European territories of the early Hallstatt and La Tène archaeological cultures of the Iron Age . . . 
• Wales and the French Revolution
  The French Revolution of 1789 was perhaps the defining event of the Romantic period in Europe . . . How did the events in Europe and the British reaction to them come to be known and felt in places like Carmarthen, Bangor or Milford Haven? In what ways did Welsh responses differ from those in Scotland, Ireland or London? Our new project aims to explore these questions through a series of edited texts . . . 
• Stained Glass in Wales
  Stained glass windows can be found in great numbers across the whole of the country, present in most communities, mainly in churches and some chapels . . .  Building on the AHRC Imaging the Bible Project, run in collaboration with the University of Wales, Lampeter, an online database of stained glass in Wales is in preparation . . . 
• Dictionary of the Welsh Language  
  

  In 1921 a project was begun by the University of Wales Board of Celtic Studies to produce the first standard historical Welsh dictionary. The final volume of the Dictionary was published in 2002 after 82 years' work. The team is now completely re-editing the Dictionary, expecting to complete 'B' in 2011.

• Welsh Name-Studies

  This will become a web-based electronic resource within the University’s ‘Global Campus’. Provisionally entitled the ‘Guide to Welsh Name-Studies’, it will offer rather more than a conventional printed bibliography, because it will contain full summaries of many articles, and electronic indexes to longer studies; in addition, all the entries will have been tagged according to the subject-matter and region with which they are concerned.