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Gwyn A. Williams was a Welsh historian and political activist. He was born in Dowlais, Wales, on 30 September 1925. He was educated at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and at the London School of Economics. Williams was a lecturer in history at the University of Wales, Swansea, from 1951 to 1965, and a professor of history at the University of York from 1965 to 1972. He was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972–73. Williams was a prolific author, writing books on Welsh history, politics, and culture. His most famous work was The Welsh in Their History (1962), which was a pioneering study of the Welsh people and their history. He also wrote a number of books on the history of the British Labour Party, including The Search for a New Society (1971). Williams was a committed socialist and a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain from 1945 to 1956. He was a prominent figure in the Welsh nationalist movement, and was a founder member of the Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru in 1950. Williams died on 28 April 1995, aged 69.

Popular As Gwyn Alfred Williams
Occupation Professor, Historian, Presenter
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 30 September, 1925
Birthday 30 September
Birthplace Dowlais, Wales
Date of death (1995-11-16)
Died Place Drefach Felindre, Dyfed, Wales
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1983

Williams was also a supporter of Republicanism; and later a member of Plaid Cymru, he praised the anti-monarchy book The Enchanted Glass by Tom Nairn. In 1983 Williams took early retirement from his chair at Cardiff and began making films with Teliesyn, an independent Welsh broadcasting company based in Cardiff. He eventually moved from Cardiff to the village of Dre-fach Felindre, in Carmarthenshire.

1954

In 1954, Williams was appointed Lecturer in Welsh History at Aberystwyth University where he worked with another historian of Wales David Williams. He left Aberystwyth for the University of York where he was Chair of History from 1965 to 1974. He moved back to Wales in 1974, becoming Professor of History at University College Cardiff, where he stayed until his retirement in 1983. Throughout his career, Williams was known as an exciting lecturer, capable of drawing large crowds from across the university. After his retirement, he continued to write, but he focused more and more on television and film, presenting, with Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, a 13-part series in 1985 by HTV and Channel 4 on Welsh history entitled The Dragon Has Two Tongues.

1925

Gwyn Alfred "Alf" Williams (30 September 1925 – 16 November 1995) was a Welsh historian particularly known for his work on Antonio Gramsci and Francisco Goya as well as on Welsh history.