Lead supervisor:
Prof Bella Dicks 
Other supervisor(s):
- Prof Martin Willis
Award: Collaborative
Subject Pathway:
Sociology / Science and Technology Studies
Thematic Cluster:
Society and Well-Being Cluster
In partnership with:
Tours in Wales (c.1780-1820), and National Museum Wales: Contested Territories?
My PhD project is an exploration of the dominant narratives of ‘Wales’ and 'the Welsh', as constructed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, Anglophone, published accounts of the domestic tours of the British Isles.
It situates this popular genre as the main discourse of Wales/Cymru and the Welsh/y Cymry of the period in the English language, its authors as an epistemic community of influential knowledge creators, and in so doing seeks to examine how this symbolic elite may have shaped Anglophone understandings of Wales during this critical period of nation-building.
Taking a critical heritage approach to this field of Wales Studies, the study also examines the possibly enduring influence of these understandings by considering whether or not the published volumes can be considered an example of authorised heritage discourse (AHD), and determines to what extent the reproduction of knowledge and ideologies contained within the dominant narratives have influenced interpretation and wider museological activity in one of the sites of Wales’ national museums.