The entry for Williams at this web based progressive encyclopaedia affords discussion of his contribution to literary and cultural theory, but includes links not only to recent publications, including Dai Smith's biography, A Warrior Tale, but to political events contemporary the life of the writer.

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Border Country - Raymond Williams in Adult Education

Edited by John McIlroy and Sallie Westwood (NIACE, 1993) is central to RWF’s aims.
ISBN 0631165894

Raymond Williams - Writing, Culture, Politics

By Alan O’Connor (Blackwell, 1989) offers an invaluable RW bibliography
ISBN 0631165894

Raymond Williams - A Warrior’s Tale

By Dai Smith (Parthian, 2008) has already established itself as a major biographical study ISBN 978-1-905762-56-9

Who Speak for Wales? Nation, Culture, Identity

Edited by Daniel Williams
ISBN 978-0-7083-1784-6

Who speaks for Wales is the most recent collection of essays, chapters and interviews by Raymond Williams to have been published. The collection crosses politics, history and culture and includes some that have not previously received wide circulation. Among the most interesting, are interviews given by Williams which reveal insights into the writers life and politics in relation to current questions of nationalism and society first as these occur in Wales but then Europe and beyond. Other insights (apply) to Williams writing, particularly his last work where the Black Mountains serve as the main character. Williams reveals that he drew on recent archaeology of the area and research of medieval sources, as well as his own walks from his home at Carshaw in writing People of the Black Mountains. Daniel Williams provides a long and stimulating introductory chapter to the collection in which he addresses a number of criticisms, thoroughly undermines some of these. Most obviously challenged are those raised from a 'post-colonial' position, Daniel Williams demonstrates that at least one of these critics has at best a poor grasp of Williams, and that when read carefully Raymond Williams' work contains a subtle intervention into the (post)-colonial situation gain drawing on the complexity that is contemporary Wales. Daniel Williams is connected with Dai Smith through the University at Swansea. His researches are complementary to those undertaken by the latter in writing A Warriors' Tale and Who Speaks for Wales provides the reader with an understanding of Williams after 1960 and especially from the end of that decade when he began to appraise more publicly his changing relationship with Wales and differences between its people,

Teaching culture: the long revolution in cultural studies.
National Institute of Adult Continuing Education,

Nannette Aldred ed
ISBN 1862010455

Teaching culture contains a range of contributions, some describing practical interventions of the form anticipated by the Federation while others go on to raise theoretical questions concerning teaching, politics, and making effective interventions.

Josh Cole, (2008) 'Raymond Williams and education - a slow reach again for control', The encyclopaedia of informal education.
www.infed.org/thinkers/raymond_williams.htm

This article deals directly with the relevance of Raymond Williams to learning broadly and to adult education, in particular. Josh Cole develops an examination and argument which Federation members are well placed to continue.

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Michael Rustin.‘The Long Revolution Revisited’. Soundings 35, Spring 2007.

http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/soundings/archive/soundings35.html

In this timely article Mike Rustin argues that Williams' political and intellectual project summarised by the term 'long revolution', has not been lost in the adverse conditions of recent years, and remains an objective to which progressive efforts need to renew commitment. However Rustin sees public or civic learning as having contracted even as higher education as grown.

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