Glyndwrs First Victory

The battle of Hyddgen (1401) was Owain Glyndwr's first great victory - crucial in the success of the famous rebellion. Ian Fleming explains lucidly the background and all known details of the battle where 500 Welshmen outfought 1500 Flemish soldiers.

The battle of Hyddgen (1401) was Owain Glyndwr's first great victory - crucial in the success of the famous rebellion. Ian Fleming explains lucidly the background and all known details of the battle where 500 Welshmen outfought 1500 Flemish soldiers.

The first ever full-scale biography of the last native Prince of Wales who fought to maintain an independent Wales.

The story of the Owain GlyndAur (Glyn DAur) rebellion written by the foremost scholar in this field, Rees Davies. A new translation by Gerald Morgan of his popular Welsh-language account of the rebellion. A masterful study of the life and legacy of Glyn DAur, whose revolt against the English rule of Wales in the early 15th century ensured his status as a national hero.

Presents the original text and English translations of the medieval and post-medieval records, poems and chronicles relating to Welsh revolutionary Owain Glyndwr (1357?-1415). Notes and essays on the historical, social and literary context provide up-to-date perspectives and commentary on the man and his times.

This impressive book reveals surprising new facts about the man who still fires the Welsh imagination, Owain Glyndwr, through rigorous assessment of evidence in contemporary manuscripts and printed sources. Color photos.

Collected writings by Adam Price, leader of Plaid Cymru and one of the great thinkers in current Welsh politics. It explores the viability of Welsh independence and includes some of his most famous speeches to Parliament, offering a great assessment of the current Welsh situation as well as ideas for securing a brighter future for Wales.

But Owain himself was not captured; and soon after his death he became a legendary hero among the Welsh people. In more recent times he has come to be regarded as the father of modern Welsh nationalism.

Explore the 1,500-year history of Celtic resistance. Martin Wall explores the mythology and psychology of this unyielding and insular people.