The Writers of Wales Database

REES, RONALD

Ronald was born in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot. He has written several books and articles. He attended Neath Grammar School and taught Historical Geography at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, before becoming a full-time writer. An adjunct professor at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, he now lives in St. Andrews in Canada.

Selected Publications:
Land of Earth and Sky: Landscape Painting of Western Canada (Western Producer Prairie Books, 1984)
Land of the Loyalists: Their struggle to shape the Maritimes (Nimbus, 2000)
Some Other Place Than Here: St. Andrews and the Irish Emigrant (New Ireland Press, 2000)
King Copper: South Wales and the Copper Trade 1584-1895 (University of Wales Press, 2000)
Historic Saint Croix (Images of Our Past) (Nimbus, 2003)
Heroic Science: Swansea and the Royal Institution of South Wales 1835 - 1865 (Glyndwr Publishing, 2005)
The Black Mystery: Coal-mining in South-West Wales (Y Lolfa, 2008)