Introduction
Chris Williams is a Welsh academic, best known for his work on editing the diaries of Richard Burton. Williams is currently Professor of History and Head of the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University.
Williams is a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, and obtained his doctorate from Cardiff University before becoming a lecturer there. He subsequently worked at the University of Glamorgan and in 2005 became Professor of Welsh History and Director of the Research Institute for Arts and Humanities at Swansea University. He is a Royal Commissioner with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales and is Chairman of the Welsh Heritage Schools Initiative. In 2013 he took up his present appointment at Cardiff University.
Williams' edition of the Burton diaries was published by Yale University Press. The diaries were donated to Swansea University by Burton's widow, Sally Burton, in 2006.
Works
- B. L. Coombes (Writers of Wales series) (with William D. Jones; 1999)
- With Dust Still in His Throat: A B.L.Coombes Anthology (with Bill Jones; 1999)
- Postcolonial Wales (ed, with Jane Aaron; 2005)
- Robert Owen and his Legacy (ed., with Noel Thompson; 2011)
- The Richard Burton Diaries (ed; 2012)
- The Gwent County History, vol. 5 (ed, with Andy Croll; 2013)