Dr Eryn White

BA (Cymru) PhD (Cymru)

Dr Eryn White

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Department of History & Welsh History

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Eryn White is a historian of early modern Wales, with special interests in religion, culture and society. She has published extensively on eighteenth-century Wales in particular, but has also worked on print culture in Wales more broadly and on early Welsh Nonconformity. Other interests include the history of crime and of landownership, especially in south-west Wales, and she is editor of Ceredigion, the journal of the Ceredigion Historical Society. She is member of a number of editorial boards, including for 'Studies in Welsh History' for the University of Wales Press.

  • Friday 11.00-11.50

Eryn White works on early modern Welsh history in general, with special research interests in religion, literacy, print culture, crime, morality, women and society in eighteenth-century Wales. She has studied various aspects of the Methodist Revival in Wales, including its appeal, the role of women, questions of identity, the relation to the Welsh language and to education and the attitude to consumerism. She has also published on the history of early Dissent in Wales, on aspects of the history of the Welsh language and on the influence of the Welsh Bible on society and culture.

‘Seren o’r ffordd gyffredin’: Rhoda Evan a Theulu Trefeca. / White, Eryn.
In: Y Traethodydd, 01.04.2025.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Welsh Cultural Identity and the Eighteenth-Century Evangelical Revival. / White, Eryn.
In: The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 56, No. 2, 3, 25.08.2025, p. 162-176.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

David Jones, Llan-gan, a'r 'offeiriaid ddarfu gefnu'. / White, Eryn.
Gofal Ein Gwinllan: Ysgrifau ar gyfraniad Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru i'n llên a'n hanes a'n diwylliant Cyfrol 2. ed. / A. Cynfael Lake; D. Densil Morgan. Vol. 2 Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2024. p. 1-12.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

Menywod a'r Eglwys Anglicanaidd yn y Ddeunawfed Ganrif. / White, Eryn.
Gofal ein Gwinllan: Ysgrifau ar Gyfraniad yr Eglwys yng Nghymru i'n llên a'n hanes a'n diwylliant Cyfrol I. ed. / A. Cynfael Lake; D. Densil Morgan. Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2023. p. 131-142.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

Review: The Welsh Society of Philadelphia 1798-1839. / White, Eryn M.
In: Welsh History Review, Vol. 31, No. 4, 01.12.2023, p. 617-618.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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