Huw Pryce
Our President-elect for 2025–26 is Huw Pryce, Emeritus Professor of Welsh History, Bangor University. Born in Essex and brought up in Cardiff, he read history at Jesus College, Oxford, where he went on to undertake doctoral research, writing a thesis on the relationship between medieval Welsh law and the Church. He joined the staff at Bangor in 1981 and was Professor of Welsh History from 2005 until his retirement in 2021; he is now Emeritus Professor. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1993, serving on its Council 2016–19, and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2011, and was appointed an Honorary Professor in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University in 2021. He was President of the Caernarvonshire Historical Society 2009–24, and is a member of the Commission internationale de diplomatique and of the Advisory Board for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
He has published widely on the history of medieval Wales and the historiography of Wales in all periods as well as on aspects of nineteenth-century medievalism and antiquarianism. His publications include Native Law and the Church in Medieval Wales (1993), an edition of documents, The Acts of Welsh Rulers 1120–1283 (2005), Tywysogion (2006), J. E. Lloyd and the Creation of Welsh History (2011) and Writing Welsh History: From the Early Middle Ages to the Twenty- First Century (2022). He is the editor of Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies (1998) and co-editor of volumes Yr Arglwydd Rhys (1996), Power and Identity in the Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of Rees Davies (2007) and Writing a Small Nation’s Past: Wales in Comparative Perspective, 1850–1950 (2013). He has been co-editor of the Welsh History Review since 2004 and is one of the editors of the book series Studies in Celtic History (Boydell) and Rethinking the History of Wales (University of Wales Press).