Reviews
"For in Stories of Solidarity Hywel Francis offers a powerful message, Welsh in accent but universal in scope. Traditions can and do have a place in the present, particularly cultural traditions of solidarity and community; we need them to survive.
- Dr Daryl Leeworthy
"This most attractive little volume, a real credit to the staff of Gwasg Y Lolfa, Talybont, conveniently brings together in one place twenty-one of the author's rather shorter pieces... We must express our gratitude to the author for bringing his shorter contributions together in a single volume and thus making them much more accessible to a disparate and wider readership.
- J Graham Jones, Gwales
"The overarching theme of Francis' speeches is giving differently silenced voices a platform and to return them to the present memory...
- Rita Singer, Planet: The Welsh Insternatinoalist (Summer 2019)
"This wonderful book is full of nostalgia, but shows how lessons in social solidarity and justice from the past can and must be projected into the future.
- Robert Gildea, Times Higher Education Supplement
"Just finished lovely Stories Of Solidarity by HywelFrancis. Great insights into community, class, Labour, politics, what adult education gave to the S. Wales valleys, miners, internationalism...
- John Holford, Trydar
