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Ralph Alan Griffiths OBE DLitt FRHistS FLSW is a historian and an emeritus professoratSwansea University.

Life[edit]

Griffiths was born and brought up in a mining valley between Glamorgan and Monmouthshire.[1] He attended "one of Wales' good grammar schools and was well taught in most subjects".[1] He is a graduate of the University of Bristol and was appointed to a research post, and then promoted to higher academic positions, at Swansea in 1964.[2]

Griffiths was a member, and later chair, of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, sat on the Advisory Council on Public Records, and on the Council of the Royal Historical Society.[2] In 2001 he delivered the British Academy's Sir John Rhŷs Memorial Lecture.[3] In 2004, Griffiths was appointed general editor of the Gwent County History, published in five volumes between 2004 and 2013.[4] In 2011, he was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[5] In 2021, he was awarded the Derek Allen Prize for Celtic studies by the British Academy.[6]

Works[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Professor Ralph Griffiths". Making History. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  • ^ a b "Professor Emeritus Ralph A. Griffiths, OBE". University of Swansea. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  • ^ "Sir John Rhŷs Memorial Lectures". The British Academy. text
  • ^ Griffiths 2004, Preface.
  • ^ Wales, The Learned Society of. "Ralph Griffiths". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
  • ^ "Leading slavery scholar wins prestigious British Academy prize for contributions to humanities and social sciences". The British Academy. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
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