PhD Theses
Meinir Moncrieffe, ‘Projection and Perception: The Self-Fashioning of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir’, Bangor University PhD Thesis (2024). Supervised by Dr. Shaun Evans and Dr. Euryn Roberts; Examined by Dr. Eryn White (Aberystwyth) and Dr. David Veevers (Bangor).
Mary Oldham, ‘Proprietors, People, Transition and Change on a Welsh Estate: Gregynog Hall, Montgomeryshire, 1750-1900’, Bangor University PhD Thesis (2024). Supervised by Dr. Lowri Ann Rees and Dr. Shaun Evans; Examined by Prof. Annie Tindley (Newcastle) and Dr. Mari Wiliam (Bangor); Kindly sponsored by The Gregynog Trust.
Kayla Jones, ‘Podcasting Penrhyn: Communicating the multilayered narratives of heritage sites through audio digital interpretation’, Bangor University PhD Thesis (2023). Supervised by Dr. Shaun Evans, Dr. Steffan Thomas and Prof. Andrew Edwards; Examined by Dr. Ana-Maria Herman (Swansea) & Dr. Eben Muse (Bangor); Kindly sponsored by The Drapers’ Company.
Matthew Rowland, ‘An Analysis of Country House Interpretation in Wales’, Bangor University PhD Thesis (2023). Supervised by Dr. Shaun Evans and Dr. Karen Pollock; Examined by Dr. Ben Cowell (Historic Houses Association) and Dr. Lowri Ann Rees; Kindly sponsored by Y Werin Legacy Fund.
Sadie Jarrett, ‘‘‘Of great kindred and alliance’’: The Status and Identity of the Salesburys of Rhug and Bachymbyd, c.1475–c.1660’, Bangor Univesrity PhD Thesis (2021). Supervised by Prof. Huw Pryce & Dr. Shaun Evans; Examined by Prof. Richard Cust & Prof. Tony Claydon; Kindly Sponsored by The Rhug Estate.
Helen Williams-Ellis, ‘Delweddu Catrin o Ferain Mewn Llun a Gair’, Bangor University PhD Thesis (2020). Supervised by Prof. Jason Walford-Davies.
Siôn Jones, ‘Hanes y Degwm yng Nghymru yn ystod y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg, gyda sylw arbennig i ‘‘Ryfel y Degwm’’’, Bangor University PhD Thesis (2017). Supervised by Dr. Lowri Ann Rees.
Publications
2024
Sadie Jarrett, Gentility in Early Modern Wales: The Salesbury Family, 1450-1720 (Cardiff, 2024).
2023
Adam Coward, ‘Connections between Welsh and Irish Landed Estates, c.1650–c.1920: A Preliminary Overview’, Welsh History Review 31:4 (2023), 549-579.
Shaun Evans, ‘‘‘An antient seat of a gentleman in Wales’’: The place of the plas in Thomas Pennant’s Tour in Wales (1778-83)’, in Christopher Ridgway and Terence Dooley (eds.), Visitors to the Country House in Ireland and Britain: Welcome and Unwelcome (Dublin, 2023), pp. 196-219.
Robin Grove-White, ‘On Becoming a Welsh Landowner’, Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion 29 (2023), 139-62.
Kayla Jones, Podlediad Penrhyn (2023).
Lowri Ann Rees (ed.), The Middleman at Middleton Hall: The Letters of Thomas Herbert Cooke, Land Agent in Rebecca’s Carmarthenshire, 1841-1847 (South Wales Record Society, 2023).
Lowri Ann Rees, ‘“Aspire, persevere and indulge not”: New Wealth and Gentry Society in Wales, c.1760-1840’, Rural History 34:2 (2023), 262-277.
2022
Jon Dollery, Shaun Evans, Scott Lloyd and Julie Mathias, Deep Mapping Estate Archives (RCAHMW, 2022).
Shaun Evans, ‘Book Cultures, Gentry Identities and the Welsh Country House Library: Problems and Possibilities for Future Research’, Welsh History Review 30:1 (2022), 17-54.
Shaun Evans, Tony McCarthy and Annie Tindley (eds.), Land Reform in the British and Irish Isles since 1800 (Edinburgh, 2022).
Shaun Evans, ‘‘‘The battle of the Welsh nation against landlordism’’: The Response of the North Wales Property Defence Association to the Welsh Land Question, c.1886-1896’ in Shaun Evans, Tony McCarthy and Annie Tindley (eds.), Land Reform in the British and Irish Isles since 1800 (Edinburgh, 2022), pp. 259-284.
Sara Fox, Middleton Hall: A History (National Botanic Garden of Wales, 2022).
Alex Ioannou, ‘Research methodologies for changing landscapes and places in flux’, in Fabian Neuhaus (ed.), Cultures, Communities and Design: Connecting Planning, Landscapes, Architecture and People, AMPS Proceedings Series 30 (University of Calgary, 28-30 June 2022), 257-67.
Mary Oldham, ‘Serving the Succession and Preserving the Patrimony: The Women of Gregynog to 1800 and Beyond’, Montgomeryshire Collections 110 (2022), 59-78.
Gwilym Owen and Nerys Llewelyn Jones, ‘The case for separate agricultural legislation for Wales’, in Shaun Evans, Tony McCarthy and Annie Tindley (eds.), Land Reform in the British and Irish Isles since 1800 (Edinburgh, 2022), pp. 190-210.
Gwilym Owen and Marie Parker-Jones, ‘Dillwyn v. Llewelyn – A fresh perspective on a misconceived approach’, Conveyancer and Property Lawyer (2022), 70-86.
2021
Shaun Evans, ‘Coming of Age: Landowners and Tenants in nineteenth-century Carmarthenshire’, The Carmarthen Antiquary 57 (2021), 76-89.
Robin Grove-White, ‘On a Tudor Welsh Lawyer and the Future of Britain’, Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion 26 (2020), 139-62.
Sadie Jarrett, ‘Credibility in the Court of Chancery: Salesbury v. Bagot, 1671-1677’, The Seventeenth Century 36: 1 (2021), 55-79.
Sadie Jarrett, ‘‘‘By reason of her sex and widowhood’’: An early modern Welsh gentlewoman in the Court of Star Chamber’, in K. J. Kesselring and Natalie Mears (eds.), Star Chamber Matters: An Early Modern Court and its Records (London, 2021), pp. 79-96.
2020
Robin Grove-White, A Prism for his Times: Late-Tudor Anglesey & Hugh Hughes of Plas Coch (Anglesey Antiquarian Society, 2020).
Sadie Jarrett, ‘Officeholding and Local Politics in Early Modern Wales: A Study of the Salesburys of Rhug and Bachymbyd, c.1536–1621’, Welsh History Review 30: 2 (2020), 206-32.
2019
Shaun Evans, ‘Gruffudd Hiraethog, Heraldic Display and the “five courts” of Mostyn: Projecting Status, Honour and Authority in sixteenth-century Wales’, in Fiona Robertson and Peter Lindfield (eds.), The Display of Heraldry: The Heraldic Imagination in Arts and Culture (The Heraldry Society, 2019), pp. 116-133.
Shaun Evans, Sarah Higgins and Julie Mathias, Archives and Records: The Journal of the Archives and Records Association, Special Issue on ‘Estate Archives’, 40:1 (2019).
Shaun Evans and Elen Wyn Simpson, ‘Assessing the impact of collections-based collaboration across archives and academia: The Penrhyn estate archive’, Archives and Records: The Journal of the Archives and Records Association 40:1 (2019), 37-54.
Julie Mathias, Shaun Evans and Gwilym Owen, ‘Towards a toolkit for estate records’, Archives and Records: The Journal of the Archives and Records Association 40:1 (2019), 86-109.
Gwilym Owen and Peter Foden, At Variance: The Penrhyn Entail (Welsh Legal History Society, 2019).
Einion Wyn Thomas, ‘Keepers, Pheasants, Poachers, Religion and Politics: The Rhiwlas Estate, Bala’ in Terence Dooley and Christopher Ridgway (eds.), Sport and Leisure in the Irish and British Country House (Dublin, 2019).
2018
Mary Chadwick and Shaun Evans, ‘‘‘Ye Best Tast of Bookes & Learning of Any Other Country Gentn”: The Library of Thomas Mostyn of Gloddaith, c.1676-1692’ in Annika Bautz and James Gregory (eds.), Libraries, Books and Collectors of Texts, 1600-1900, (London, 2018), pp. 87-103.
Shaun Evans, ‘Inventing the Bosworth Tradition: Richard ap Hywel, the “King’s Hole” and the Mostyn family image’, Welsh History Review 29:2 (2018), 218-253.
Shaun Evans, ‘‘‘Between two interests”: Pennant A. Lloyd’s agency of the Penrhyn estate, 1860-77’, in Lowri Ann Rees, Ciaran J. Reilly and Annie Tindley (eds.), The Land Agent: 1700-1920 (Edinburgh, 2018), pp. 184-201.
Lowri Ann Rees, Ciaran J. Reilly and Annie Tindley (eds.), The Land Agent: 1700-1920 (Edinburgh, 2018).
Lowri Ann Rees, ‘Frustrations and fears: the impact of the Rebecca Riots on the land agent in Carmarthenshire, 1843’, in Lowri Ann Rees, Ciaran J. Reilly and Annie Tindley (eds.), The Land Agent: 1700-1920 (Edinburgh, 2018), pp. 153-67.
Lowri Ann Rees, ‘“I serve my God, and I fear not man”: The Rebecca Riots and a female landowner’s response to Welsh Rural Protest, 1843-44’, in Terence Dooley, Maeve O’Riordan and Christopher Ridgway (eds.), Women and the Country House in Ireland and Britain (Dublin, 2018).
Lowri Ann Rees, ‘Hughes, John / Jac Tŷ Isha (1819-1905)’, in Keith Gildart and David Howell (eds.), Dictionary of Labour Biography: Volume XIV (Basingstoke, 2018).
2017
Gwilym Owen and Demot Cahill, ‘A Blend of English and Welsh Law in Late Medieval and Tudor Wales: Innovation and Mimicry of native settlement patterns in Wales’, Irish Jurist 58 (2017), 153-83.
Gwilym Owen and Dermot Cahill, ‘The Acts of Union 1536-43 – Not quite the end of the road for Welsh Law?’, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 37 (2017), 217-50.
Lowri Ann Rees, ‘Welsh sojourners in India: The East India Company, Networks and Patronage, c.1760-1840’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 45:2 (2017), 165-187.
2015
Shaun Evans and Robert Tittler, ‘Randle Holme the Elder and the Development of Portraiture in North Wales, c.1600-1630’, The British Art Journal 16: 2 (2015), 24-29.
Shaun Evans, ‘St. Winifred’s Well, Office-holding and the Mostyn Family interest: Negotiating the Reformation in Flintshire, c.1570-1642’, Flintshire Historical Society Journal 40 (2015), 41-72.
2014
Huw Pryce and Gwilym Owen, ‘Medieval Welsh Law and the Mid-Victorian Foreshore’, Journal of Legal History 35:2 (2014), 172-99.
2013
Lowri Ann Rees, ‘Might and Spite: The former Middleton Hall estate’ in H. V. Bowen (ed.), Buildings and Places in Welsh History: A New History of Wales (Llandysul, 2013).