Huw Pryce

Huw Pryce was educated at Jesus College, Oxford (BA 1979, DPhil 1985). He joined the staff at Bangor in 1981 and was appointed Professor of Welsh History in 2005. In 2011 he was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. His doctoral thesis was on medieval Welsh law and the Church, and he has published widely on the history of medieval Wales, including an edition of the documents issued by native Welsh rulers 1120–1283; he also initiated a series of biannual colloquia on medieval Wales held in Bangor since 2002.

His current research focuses on the historiography of Wales, the subject of his most recent books: a study of the historian John Edward Lloyd (1861–1947), a Professor of History at Bangor who played a seminal role in establishing Welsh history as a modern academic subject, and a co-edited collection of essays on the study of the past in Wales and other small nations between 1850 and 1950. Huw is also a co-investigator on the AHRC project, Inventor of Britain: The Works of Humphrey Llwyd.

Huw is co-editor of the Welsh History Review and one of the editors of Boydell’s monograph series Studies in Celtic History.