The Eisteddfod

by Hywel Teifi Edwards

The Eisteddfod , first published in 1990 as part of the University of Wales Press’s Writers of Wales series, presents the history of the National Eisteddfod, Wales’s annual cultural event and one of Europe's largest and oldest festivals, to an English-speaking audience. Featuring a new preface by broadcaster and journalist Huw Edwards, this concise, engaging, and witty volume gives an overview of that history from the first Eisteddfod in 1176 to the modern Eisteddfod of the 1980s.

85 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1990

About the author

Hywel Teifi Edwards was a Welsh academic and historian, and an author in the Welsh language. He was the father of BBC newsreader Huw Edwards.

Born and brought up in Llanddewi, Aberarth, Ceredigion, Edwards attended Aberaeron Grammar School and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. He taught Welsh at Garw Grammar School, where he met his wife Aerona, before becoming a lecturer in Welsh literature at University of Wales, Swansea.

He stood twice for Parliament as a Plaid Cymru candidate.