Moth or Phoenix?: The fight to save Saint David's College 1953-1971

History of the university founded in Lampeter as St David’s College in 1822, written by its former Principal. The book tells the story of the oldest degree—conferring institution in Wales, and of a minor ‘academic war’ — mercifully bloodless, and not strictly academic, as opposing parties were motivated mainly by religious, political and nationalistic prejudices — when St David’s College was refused membership of the federal University of Wales, founded in 1893. It gives an account of the c...