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SMITH, DAI

Professor Dai Smith is the Raymond Williams Chair in Cultural History within the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales, (CREW) at the University of Wales, Swansea which he joined in March 2005. He was Professor in the History of Wales at Cardiff University from 1985 to 1992 and Editor to BBC Radio Wales and Head of Programmes (English language) at BBC Wales from 1992 to 2001 when he was appointed Pro–Vice–Chancellor at he University of Glamorgan.

He has also been a Simon Senior Fellow at the University of Manchester and a visiting lecturer at Universities in Germany, Holland, France, Spain, Denmark, Ireland and England. He is now Series Editor of the Welsh Assembly Government’s Library of Wales for classic works written in English from or about Wales.

Dai Smith is currently completing a major authorised biographical work on Raymond Williams, Wales’ most influential 20th Century intellectual figure whose papers will be deposited in University of Wales, Swansea and he has begun research into key aspects of the cultural and creative history of Wales since 1945. For television he has presented and scripted a number of award-winning documentaries and, as a broadcaster, sought to deepen popular appreciation of Welsh culture and history.

Selected Publications:
Gwyn Thomas 1913-1981 (Writer’s World) (International Specialized Book Service Inc, 1987)
Aneurin Bevan and the World of South Wales (University of Wales Press, 1993)  
The Fed: History of the South Wales Miners in the Twentieth Century (University of Wales Press, 1998)
Wales: A Question for History (Seren, 1999)
Regenerating Wales (Institute of Welsh Affairs) (Welsh Academic Press, 2005)
Raymond Williams: A Warrior’s Tale (Parthian, 2008)

Contributed to:
Fields of Praise: Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union, 1881-1981 (with Professor Gareth Williams) (University of Wales Press, 1980)
Through Fire and Water (co-writer) (Oriel Stringer, 1997)
The People of Wales (co-editor) (Gomer, 1999)
A Community and Its University: Glamorgan 1913-2003 (co-editor) (University of Wales Press, 2003)

         
You can contact Professor Smith at CREW on: 01792 295926