Dr Daryl Leeworthy

Dr Daryl Leeworthy is the Rhys Davies Research Fellow at the South Wales Miners’ Library, Swansea University. He is the author of Elaine Morgan: A Life Behind The Screen (2020), A Little Gay History of Wales (2019), Labour Country (2018), and Fields of Play: The Sport Heritage of Wales (2012). His many articles and book chapters have explored the modern social and political history of Wales, the North Atlantic sporting borderlands, and LGBT history. He is currently writing a history of the women’s movement in Wales, a study of the intellectual life of the South Wales coalfield, and a biography of the novelist and broadcaster Gwyn Thomas.