Projects


	Two projects are currently in progress:

Professor Hywel Wyn Owen

Ann Daniels

The project is funded by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), the body which awards research funding on behalf of the Government.

The project runs from 1 March 2000 until 1 March 2003.

The intention is to produce the first ever place-name dictionary dedicated to Wales.

Published as separate Welsh and English volumes, it will consist of some 2,600 place-names, and include historical forms for each name as well as an analysis of the name’s development and its meaning.

The co-authors are Professor Hywel Wyn Owen and Richard Morgan (Glamorgan Record Office).

Professor Hywel Wyn Owen

Ann Daniels

Owain Davies

Gruff Prys

Nesta Roberts

The project is funded by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), to run from 1 June 2001 to 1 September 2004.

Professor Melville Richards was Professor of Welsh at Bangor from 1967 to 1973. Throughout his outstanding academic life his major interest was the study of the place-names of Wales. He collected many thousands of names of rivers, hills, bays, fields, villages and towns.

Much of his research was published but there is still invaluable material as yet unpublished. On his death in 1973, he deposited his entire collection of research slips (some 300,000 of them) on permanent loan at Bangor.



	The Centre’s Research Officers in front of the Melville Richards archive.


	Some years ago the University of Wales’s Board of Celtic Studies determined to safeguard the archive in a computerized form. The purpose of the current project is to complete this task and, by transferring it to an electronic database, to enhance place-name studies in Wales and beyond.


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