The University of Wales Press (Welsh: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru) was founded in 1922 as a central service of the University of Wales.[2] The press publishes academic journals and around seventy books a year in the English and Welsh languages on six general subjects: history, political philosophy and religious studies, Welsh and Celtic studies, literary studies, European studies and medieval studies. The press has a backlist of over 3,500 titles.[citation needed]
The main offices of the University of Wales Press are in Cardiff.
With the announcement in 2011 that the University of Wales would be functionally merged into Trinity Saint David, it was envisaged that the University of Wales Press would also be merged into the institution.[3]
In September 2016 it was announced the Press would be forming a partnership with the Open Library of Humanities to convert the International Journal of Welsh Writing in English into a full open-access journal.[4]
Book series
In 2024 the following book series were being published:[5]
Series in English
Architecture in Wales
Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages
French and Francophone Studies
Gender Studies in Wales
Gothic Authors: Critical Revisions
Gothic Literary Studies
Horror Studies
Iberian and Latin American Studies
International Crime Fictions
International Law
Intersections in Literature and Science
Literary Geography: Theory and Practice
Lives and Beliefs of the Ancient Egyptians
Materialities in Anthropology and Archaeology
Medieval Animals
New Approaches to Celtic Religion and Mythology
New Century Chaucer
New Dimensions in Science Fiction
Political Philosophy Now
The Public Law of Wales
Race, Ethnicity, Wales and the World
Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages
Rethinking the History of Wales
Scientists of Wales
Studies in Visual Culture
Studies in Welsh History
Wales and the French Revolution
Writers of Wales
Writing Wales in English
Series in Welsh
Dawn Dweud ("Gift of Speech" (?); a series of literary biographies)
Y Meddwl a'r Dychymyg Cymreig ("Welsh Thought and Imagination")
