The North American Journal of Welsh Studies was first published in 2001. It represents the continuing interest in North America in the origins of its immigrants, and also provides a valuable and important transatlantic link to scholars working on Welsh studies in Wales and Britain more generall

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University of Huddersfield RepositoryWard, PaulEditorial: North American Journal of Welsh Studies Vol. 6, 1 (Winter 2011)Original CitationWard, Paul (2011) Editorial: North American Journal of Welsh Studies Vol. 6, 1 (Winter 2011). North American Journal of Welsh Studies, 6 (1). p. 1. ISSN 1554-8112This version is available at http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/11591/The University Repository is a digital collection of the research output of theUniversity, available on Open Access. Copyright and Moral Rights for the itemson this site are retained by the individual author and/or other copyright owners.Users may access full items free of charge; copies of full text items generallycan be reproduced, displayed or performed and given to third parties in anyformat or medium for personal research or study, educational or not-for-profitpurposes without prior permission or charge, provided:• The authors, title and full bibliographic details is credited in any copy;• A hyperlink and/or URL is included for the original metadata page; and• The content is not changed in any way.For more information, including our policy and submission procedure, pleasecontact the Repository Team at: E.mailbox@hud.ac.uk.http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/North American Journal of Welsh Studies Vol. 6, 1 (Winter 2011)  1      EDITORIAL  The North American Journal of Welsh Studies was first published in 2001. It represents the continuing interest in North America in the origins of its immigrants, and also provides a valuable and important transatlantic link to scholars working on Welsh studies in Wales and Britain more generally.   The journal took a short break between 2006 and 2010 despite the continued activity of its founding body, the North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History. NAASWCH holds biennial conferences, with the first in 1995. Since the last edition of the journal, conferences have been held in Swansea in 2006, in Toronto in 2008, and in Arlington, Virginia in 2010. These are exciting and vibrant events – multi-disciplinary and international – as well as being incredibly sociable as well. It is, therefore, with much pleasure that I accepted the editorship of the journal with the remit to bring it back to life. In the past, the journal contained articles first presented at NAASWCH events but we have opened our pages to all and now welcome submissions from scholars in any field of Welsh Studies. We also wish to act as a supportive forum for postgraduates to publish as well, encouraging research students to offer book reviews and essays. As an on-line journal we can be flexible as to word length – indeed we consider that varied lengths of contribution are likely to enliven reading. Equally, we are happy to publish calls for conference papers as well as reports of events, publications and exhibition relating to Welsh studies. This new edition seeks to represent the diversity of Welsh studies, though it is a little weighted towards my own field of Welsh history. Two of the essays were presented at the NAASWCH conference at Marymount University in Arlington, but two were not. For this first edition, contributors from the United Kingdom are over-represented, but we hope in future that the journal will be more equally balanced. Kate Gramich explores, from a literary perspective, the way in which Welsh history was made into a national narrative. Martin Johnes considers methodological questions in writing contemporary Welsh history. Ron Lewis examines the experiences, cultures and identities of miners of Welsh origin in the United States. Finally, Jodie Matthews analyses George Borrow’s writings on his visit to Wales in the mid-nineteenth century. We are delighted that the articles in this first new edition cover such a considerable range of Welsh studies.  Professor Paul Ward        September 2011  University of Huddersfield, UK paul.ward@hud.ac.uk    

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