Born in Ruthin, Denbighshire, Edward Pugh (1763 1813) was a Welsh-speaking artist and writer who worked as a miniaturist in London, exhibiting frequently at the Royal Academy. But Pugh s passion was the landscape, and he painted remarkable views of North Wales that not only captivate but also reveal the development of the Welsh economy and Welsh national consciousness. Pugh also wrote and illustrated a fascinating, informative, and humorous account of a tour of North Wales around 1800 one of the only travel books written at that time by someone who could actually converse with the...

Richard Price (172391) was a dissenting minister and political radical who is generally agreed to be one of the greatest thinkers Wales has ever produced. Yet to contemporary readers, he is little known, a situation that Paul Frame aims to change with "Liberty s Apostle," a close look at Price s life and work.
Frame explores Price s philosophical thoughtwhich crucially prefigured some of Kant s central ideasas well as his political activity, which saw him invited to the nascent United States to assist with its financial administration. Though he declined that offer, he was nonetheless...