Professor D. Ben Rees's Author collection

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A Life Unlimited:

An autobiography of Prof Dr D Ben Rees

Labour of Love in Liverpool (English):

History of the Welsh Presbyterian church in Webster and Heathfield Rd in Liverpool

Jim Griffiths (Welsh):

First-ever Welsh biography of one of the architects of the welfare state

Jim (English):

First-ever English biography of Jim Griffiths who served as a minister in three different governments

Cledwyn Hughes (in Welsh, English version is coming soon)

Minister in numerous departments of governments and MP for Anglesey from 1951-1979

The Welsh in Liverpool

The latest story of the Liverpool Welsh through the English language. Long awaited, as it is the first account of the long history of the Liverpool Welsh and their institutions

Autobiography in Welsh of Dr D Ben Rees. From his early days in West Wales, to the coal mining areas of Glamourganshire, and from 1968, an official ambassador to Wales in Liverpool

The life and work of Bessie Braddock: Liverpool MP, social activist and member of the Liverpool county council borough committee. All between 1930-1970

The official history of a village associated with the patron saint of Wales, Saint David

A glimpse of the Welsh of Merseyside with extensive photographs of the churches, chapels and ministers that were involved in the life of the different Welsh communities

This is the Welsh version of the Liverpool Welsh book. All of the material in this book is new and is not accounted for in the English version

This book is extremely important for Alun Owen was a Liverpool Welsh writer and dramatist, who became extremely friendly with the Beatles

This is one in a series of three Welsh language books edited by Dr D Ben Rees in the 1980’s on well known Welsh men and women in the peace witness, within their denominations and in the Fellowship of Reconciliation

This is a booklet in English on a well-known Liverpool Welsh Minister in Victorian times William Rees known by his poetic name of Gwilym Hiraethog came to Liverpool in 1843 and retired in 1875

John Calfin was a giant of the Protestant Reformation. This was the first Welsh Language book study to be written on his story since 1909. This study was welcomed by ministers and elders of the denomination

Henry Richard, a native of West Wales, was a minister of religion, politician and peacemaker

This book includes most of the Welsh personalities, politicians and missionaries who lived in India

A biography of H Gordon Roberts born and educated in Liverpool and who was responsible for the vision of having a Hospital in Shillong, Assam, north-east India, which opened in 1922

An important book on the sociology of Welsh Non-conformity published in 1975 by Ffynnon Press of the Wirral

Challenging the World. Different portraits by literary figures of Welsh pacifists and edited by one of the peacemakers, Reverend Dr D Ben Rees

An anthology of quotations, Biblical passages, prayers, meditations on Lent and the Easter Festival written mostly by Dr Rees and edited by him

The Life and Work of Owen Thomas- a Liverpool Welsh pulpit giant – who ministered in the city between 1865 and 1891

A study of Samuel Roberts of Llanbr yn-mair in Montgomeryshire, who was a propagandist for the ordinary people of Wales, and emigrated to East Tennessee in 1857

An account in Welsh of the remarkable Liverpool Welsh society and the finished product was highly praised by reviewers and was short listed as the Welsh Book of the Year in 2020

This book is extremely useful as it contains short one page biographies with photographs of a large number of well known Welshmen and women w ho died between 1950 and 1972 . The book has sold out and it was well received by reviewers