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CARTER, HAROLD

Emeritus Professor Harold Carter was born in Neath. He has been the Gregynog Professor of Human Geography at Aberystwyth University, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Dean of the Faculty of Welsh Medium Studies and Vice Principal.

His central research area is urban geography, in which he is extensively published. Harold has been Visiting Professor and Visiting Scholar at universities in the USA, Australia and South Africa, and in 1987-88 was President of the Institute of British Geographers.
 
His other research interest is the cultural geography of Wales, in which he has published through both the mediums of English and Welsh. He edited the National Atlas of Wales and has published books on Welsh language data. Harold was made an Honorary member of the Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain at the Llanrwst National Eisteddfod in 1990. He has recently published a book on the survival of Welsh identity with the Institute of Welsh Affairs.

Selected Publications:
The Towns of Wales: A Study in Urban Geography (University of Wales Press, 1965)
The Growth of the Welsh City System (University of Wales Press, 1969)
Urban Essays: Studies in the Geography of Wales (Geographies for Advanced Study) (Prentice Hall Press, 1970)
The Study of Urban Geography (Edward Arnold, 1972)
Merthyr Tydfil in 1851: A Study of the Spatial Structure of a Welsh Industrial Town (Social Science Monographs) (University of Wales Press, 1982)
An Introduction to Urban Historical Geography (University of Wales Press, 1983)
Immigration and the Welsh Language (Court of the National Eisteddfod of Wales, 1988)
Urban and Rural Settlements (Modular Geography) (Longman, 1990)
Against the Odds: The Survival of Welsh Identity (Institute of Welsh Affairs, 2010)

Contributed to:
Geography at Aberystwyth: Essays Written on the Occasion of the Departmental Jubilee (dedicated to Professor H. J. Fleure) (co-editor) (University of Wales Press, 1968)
Welsh Language, 1961-81: An Interpretative Atlas (co-writer) (University of Wales Press, 1985)
National Atlas of Wales (editor) (University of Wales Press, 1989)
An Urban Geography of England and Wales in the Nineteenth Century (co-writer) (Edward Arnold, 1990)
Language, Economy and Society: The Changing Fortunes of the Welsh Language in the Twentieth Century (co-writer) (University of Wales Press, 2000)
The Spreading the Word: The Welsh Language 2001 (co-writer) (Y Lolfa, 2004)