By Glanmor Williams
This autobiography recounts the studies of a Welshman who has turn into widely recognized as a historian writing prolifically in English and Welsh, a lecturer, instructor and broadcaster, and an energetic public determine. he's endowed with a full of life experience of humour that often breaks the skin - usually at his personal cost! He hails from the economic township of Dowlais, sited in north Glamorgan, at the very fringe of the beautiful hill and farming kingdom of Breconshire. He used to be born in 1920, the single baby of working-class mom and dad, and he writes movingly of his early life and adolescence spent amid a warm-hearted, closely-knit group which suffered the whole strength of financial blight. Following a customary Welsh schooling at Cyfarthfa and Aberystwyth, he later spent approximately 40 years as a school instructor in Swansea, twenty-five of them as professor of heritage. His Scholarship has been acknowledged via the award of the Fellowship of the British Academy, and has a knighthood for 'services to the background, tradition and historical past of Wales.' He has mixed this with an energetic public occupation, during which he has been chairman and member of a various and various variety of our bodies, together with the Broadcasting Council for Wales, the British Library Board, the Board of Celtic reviews, the Pantyfedwen Trusts and CADW. He brings a historian's eye to the paintings of those organizations and sketches vibrant thumbnail snap shots in their best figures.
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Another bitter disappointment to me was when the Welshman, Parry Thomas, lost the world landspeed record to Malcolm Campbell. I had two toy racing cars: one a model of ‘Babs’ (Parry Thomas) and the other of ‘Bluebird’ (Campbell). When I ‘raced’ them against each other, ‘Babs’ invariably triumphed. A very different event that we all knew about and discussed earnestly was the General Strike of 1926. There were all sorts of rumours flying around about soldiers being brought in, what their role and that of the police would be, and what sort of injuries they might inflict.
The Welsh mistress, Miss Hettie Morris, was in sharp contrast to the Welsh master I had hitherto known. Whereas he was young, humorous and unusually affable, she was middle-aged, stern and severe. But she was a remarkably thorough and effective teacher, who gave her pupils a penetrating appreciation of the merits of modern and ancient Welsh literature, even if she was a bit too serious-minded for our admittedly frivolous temperaments. I do remember her melting 38 Life in ‘the Castle’ on at least one noteworthy occasion.
The cloud-capped towers of Cyfarthfa Castle Grammar School beckoned. 28 III Life in ‘the Castle’ The intense sense of excitement and anticipation that I experienced during those summer months before starting in Cyfarthfa Castle Grammar School – ‘the Castle’, as we all knew it – in September 1931 is as fresh now as it was then. It was seventy years ago, but I vividly recall how keyed up I was about proceeding to a new school, about which I had heard so much from older friends who were already pupils there.