{"title":"Huw Griffiths","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"america-the-civil-war-and-me","title":"America the Civil War and Me","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book traces a journey the author undertook over a period of seven months in 1998, when he visited archives, libraries and battlefields across America while conducting doctoral research onthe welsh in the Civil war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHuw Griffiths meets a large number of people of welsh descent. Although several of them\u003cbr\u003ehave been assimilated into American society fo generations, they nevertheless remain proud oftheir welsh connection. This is a personal story told in the company of a witty and self-satiricalauthor, enriched by interesting observations on different locations and entertaining cameos from the people he meets. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book also offers an insight into his research. The events and characters of the Civil war shape the course of those months, and every detail is of immense interest to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In a wider sense, [the American Civil war] was a battle over the ideas of freedom, equality and the role of government – questions that continue to echo to this day. And the welsh were deeply caught up in all this hullabaloo. My role was to reveal their story.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter more than twenty years as a history teacher in secondary schools,\u003cbr\u003efollowed by several years as a consultant, he decided to take the risk and apply for a senior\u003cbr\u003electurer position at the university of Wales Trinity Saint David. Taking this step led him\u003cbr\u003eto reconsider his academic work, particularly his doctoral theses on the Welsh in the\u003cbr\u003ehistory of the American Civil War. From this came the idea of combining his academic\u003cbr\u003eresearch with his personal experiences of travelling across America to create a new book in\u003cbr\u003ewhich the historian and the traveller coexist, giving expression to ‘the voice of a little boy\u003cbr\u003efrom Cwm-twrch’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIsbn: 9781845246440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Gwasg Carreg Gwalch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57255191871863,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/2370\/9229\/files\/America_theCivilWarandMe.jpg?v=1782996020"},{"product_id":"america-a-r-rhyfel-cartref-a-fi","title":"America a’r Rhyfel Cartref a Fi","description":"\u003cp\u003eYn 1998, treuliodd yr awdur saith mis yn ymweld ag archifau, llyfrgelloedd a meysydd y gad ynAmerica yn ystod ei ymchwil i ddoethuriaeth ar ran y Cymry yn y rhyfel Cartref.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYn y gyfrol hon, cawn ei hanes yn cyfarfod nifer helaeth o Gymry o dras Cymreig. Er bod\u003cbr\u003eamryw ohonynt wedi’u cymhathu yn Americanwyr ers sawl cenhedlaeth, maent er hynny’n\u003cbr\u003efalch o arddel eu cysylltiad Cymreig. Mae hon yn stori bersonol, llawn cameos difyr, yng\u003cbr\u003enghwmni awdur ffraeth a hunan-ddychanol.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDigwyddiadau a chymeriadau’r rhyfel Cartref sy’n penderfynu llwybrau’r misoedd hynny.\u003cbr\u003eDaw’r hanes yn fyw – hanes sy’n dal i siarad gyda ni heddiw.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Mewn ystyr ehangach, roedd [rhyfel Cartref America] yn frwydr dros y syniadau am ryddid, cydraddoldeb a rôl y llywodraeth – cwestiynau sy’n cael eu hadleisio hyd heddiw. Ac roedd y Cymry dros eu pennau a’u clustiau yn rhan o’r holl hylabalŵ yma. fy rôl i oedd datguddio eu stori.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBywgraffiad Awdur\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAr ôl dros ugain mlynedd o fod yn athro hanes mewn ysgolion uwchradd ac yna\u003cbr\u003eychydig o flynyddoedd fel ymgynghorydd, fe benderfynodd fentro a mynd am swydd uwch ddarlithydd ym Mhrifysgol y Drindod Dewi sant. wrth gymryd y cam hwn, dechreuodd ailystyried ei waith academaidd,yn fwyaf arbennig ei draethawd doethuriaeth ar ran y Cymry yn hanes rhyfel Cartref America. Yna daeth y syniad o gyfuno’r ymchwil academaidd â’i brofiadau personol yn teithio America i greu llyfr newydd lle mae’r hanesydd a’r teithiwr yn cyd-fyw ac yn caniatáu mynegiant i ‘lais boi bach o Gwmtwrch’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gwasg Carreg Gwalch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57255234142583,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/2370\/9229\/files\/AmericaarRhyfelCartrefaFi.jpg?v=1782997038"}],"url":"https:\/\/carreg-gwalch.cymru\/collections\/huw-griffiths.oembed","provider":"Gwasg Carreg Gwalch","version":"1.0","type":"link"}