Terry Breverton
Terry Breverton | |
|---|---|
 Author Terry Breverton supporting the Welsh rugby team in Rome | |
| Born | 1946 Birmingham, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Author |
| Known for | Books on Wales |
Terry Breverton (born 1946) is a British former businessman and academic who has written many books on subjects mainly related to Wales and seamen.
Life[edit]
Terry Breverton was born in Birmingham in 1946. His parents were Welsh, and he was brought up in Wales.[1] He studied in England at the universities of Manchester and Lancaster.[2] He worked for many years in international business and consultancy.[3] He was a management consultant in the production industry, and a marketing director.[4] Breverton then became an academic, and lectured in Milan, Bologna and Wales.[1] He has been a senior lecturer at the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff [5] and a Fellow of the Institute of Consulting and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.[1] He was awarded the Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship[6] award of the University of Indiana in 2003,[2] has twice been a guest speaker at the North American Festival of Wales[7] (NAFOW) at Vancouver in 2003 and Washington in 2007 and gave the prestigious Bemis Lecture[8] at Lincoln, Massachusetts in 2008.[9]
Breverton has said that the skills he developed in research and writing as a management consultant transferred easily into writing history books.[10] In 2000 Breverton founded Glyndŵr Publishing and WalesBooks.com.[11] Glyndŵr Publishing published books by Breverton and other authors who were unable to get their non-fiction work on Wales accepted by other publishers.[4] Since 2008 he has been a full-time writer and editor, mainly writing for Apple, Quercus and Amberley.[11] He has also presented documentaries on the Discovery Channel and the History Channel.[12] Breverton is interested in reviving interest in Welsh culture and history, which has been the main focus of his books.[2] He has said, "The Welsh are treated as second-class citizens, and live in a country that is one of the most economically backward in Europe. They are rapidly becoming a minority in their own country."[3]
Meic Stephens wrote of Breverton's 100 Great Welshmen and 100 Great Welsh Women in the Western Mail Magazine on 16 March 2002, "These are not necessarily books that you want to read from cover to cover, but to browse in ... Both are really extraordinary achievements by a single author whose industry and enterprise seem to show no bounds."[13] Breverton has won the Welsh Books Council "English Book of the Month" award on five occasions.[14]
Publications[edit]
- Terry Breverton (2000), An A to Z of Wales and the Welsh, Christopher Davies Publishers, ISBN 0-7154-0734-1
- Terry Breverton (2000), The Secret Vale of Glamorgan, Glyndŵr Publishing, ISBN 978-0846452072
- Terry Breverton (2000), The Book of Welsh Saints, Glyndŵr Publishing, ISBN 9781903529010
- Terry David Breverton (2001), 100 Great Welshmen, Glyndŵr Publishing, ISBN 978-1-903529-15-7
- Terry Breverton (2001), 100 Great Welsh Women, Glyndŵr Publishing, ISBN 9781903529041
- Terry Breverton (2002), The Path to Inexperience, Glyndŵr Publishing, ISBN 9781903529072
- Terry Breverton (2002), The Welsh Almanac, Glyndŵr Publishing, ISBN 9781903529102
- Terry Breverton (2003), The Book of Welsh Pirates and Buccaneers, Glyndŵr Publishing, ISBN 9781903529096
- Terry Breverton (2003), Glamorgan Seascape Pathways, Wales Books, ISBN 9781903529119
- Terry Breverton (2004), Black Bart Roberts: The Greatest Pirate of Them All, Wales Books, ISBN 9781455601219
- Terry Breverton (2004), Black Bart Roberts: The Greatest Pirate of Them All (short edition), Pelican(USA), ISBN 9781589802339
- Terry Breverton (2004), The Pirate Handbook: A Dictionary of Pirate Terms and Places, Wales Books, ISBN 9781903529133
- Terry Breverton (2004), The Pirate Dictionary, Pelican Publishing, ISBN 9781589802438
- Rhys Parry; Terry Breverton (2004), A Song for Owain: Poems In Praise Of Owain Glyndŵr, Y Lolfa, ISBN 9780862437381
- Terry Breverton (2005), Sir Henry Morgan - The Greatest Buccaneer of Them All, Glyndŵr Publishing, ISBN 9781903529171
- Terry Breverton (2005), Admiral Sir Henry Morgan: King of the Buccaneers, Pelican(USA), ISBN 9781589802773
- Terry Breverton (2006), 100 Great Welshmen (new edition), Wales Books, ISBN 9781903529157
- Terry Breverton; Phil Carradice (2007), Welsh Sailors of World War II, Glyndŵr Publishing, ISBN 9781903529195
- William Williams (2007), Terry Breverton (ed.), The First American Novel: The Journal of Penrose, Seaman & the Book, Author and Letters in the Lilly Library, Glyndŵr Publishing, ISBN 9781903529201
- Alexander Exquemelin (2008), Terry Breverton (ed.), The Illustrated Pirate Diaries: A Remarkable Eyewitness Account of Captain Morgan and the Buccaneers, Apple, ISBN 9780061584480
- Terry Breverton (2009), Immortal Words: History's Most Memorable Quotations and the Stories Behind Them, Quercus History/Border, ISBN 9781848660045
- Terry Breverton (2009), Owain Glyndŵr - The Story of the Last Prince of Wales, Amberley, ISBN 9781848683280
- Terry Breverton (2009), Wales - A Historical Companion, Amberley, ISBN 9781848683266
- Terry Breverton (2010), Breverton's Nautical Curiosities - A Book of the Sea, Quercus(UK)/Globe Pequot (USA), ISBN 9781849166263
- Terry Breverton (2010), Immortal Last Words: History's Most Memorable Dying Remarks, Deathbed Declarations and Final Farewells, Quercus/Borders, ISBN 9781849164788
- Terry Breverton (2010), Wales' 1000 Best Heritage Sites, Amberley, ISBN 9781848689916
- Terry Breverton (2011), Breverton's Phantasmagoria: A Compendium of Monsters, Myths and Legends, Quercus(UK)/Globe Pequot (USA), ISBN 9780857383372
- Terry Breverton (2011), Breverton's Complete Herbal: A Book of Remarkable Plants and Their Uses, Quercus(UK)/Globe Pequot (USA), ISBN 9780857383365
- Terry Breverton (2012), I Have a Dream - Inspiring Words and Thoughts from the World's Greatest Leaders, Quercus(UK)/Globe Pequot (USA), ISBN 9780857386205
- Terry Breverton (2012), Bird Watching - A Practical Guide, Parragon(USA)
- Terry Breverton (2012), Backyard Birds, Parragon(USA)
- Terry Breverton (2012), Breverton's Encyclopedia of Inventions:A Compendium of Technological Leaps, Groundbreaking Discoveries and Scientific Breakthroughs that Changed the World, Quercus, ISBN 9781780872391
- Terry Breverton (2012), The Welsh - The Biography, Amberley, ISBN 9781445608082
- Terry Breverton (2012), The Physicians of Myddfai - Cures and Remedies of the Medieval World, Cambria Books, ISBN 9780957245990
- Terry Breverton (2013), Richard III - The King in the Car Park, Amberley hardback, ISBN 9781445621050
- Terry Breverton (2013), Owain Glyndŵr: The Story of the Last Prince of Wales - new edition, Amberley Publishing, ISBN 9781445614984
- Terry Breverton (2014), Jasper Tudor: Dynasty Maker (hardback), Amberley Publishing, ISBN 9781445633916
- Terry Breverton; William Williams (2014), The Journal of Penrose, Seaman - the New Robinson Crusoe, Cambria Books, ISBN 9780957679115
- Terry Breverton (2014), Breverton's First World War Curiosities, Amberley Publishing, ISBN 9781445633411
- Terry Breverton (2015), Jasper Tudor: Dynasty Maker, Amberley Publishing, ISBN 9781445650494
- Terry Breverton (2015), Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About the Tudors but Were Afraid to Ask, Amberley Publishing, ISBN 9781445638409
- Terry Breverton (2015), The Tudor Kitchen: What the Tudors Ate & Drank, Amberley Publishing, ISBN 9781445648750
- Terry Breverton (2015), Richard III - The King in the Car Park, Amberley Publishing, ISBN 9781445644790
- Terry Breverton (2016), The Tudor Cookbook: From Gilded Peacock to Calves Feet Pie, Amberley Publishing, ISBN 9781445649023
- Terry Breverton (2016), Henry VII: The Maligned Tudor King, Amberley Publishing, ISBN 9781445646053
- Terry Breverton (2017), Owen Tudor: Founding Father of the Tudor Dynasty, Amberley Publishing, ISBN 9781445654188
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b c Terry Breverton – Amazon.
- ^ a b c Terry Breverton – Pelican.
- ^ a b Annette Kristynik 2013.
- ^ a b Ceri Shaw 2013.
- ^ Terry Breverton's top 10 great Welshmen.
- ^ http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/fellowships.shtml#helm
- ^ Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu Association
- ^ http://www.lincolntown.org/index.aspx?NID=546
- ^ http://s3.amazonaws.com/zanran_storage/www.lincolntown.org/ContentPages/16108094.pdf
- ^ Natalie Grueninger 2014.
- ^ a b Terry Breverton – LinkedIn.
- ^ Terry Breverton – Amberley Books.
- ^ Stephens 2002.
- ^ Breverton, Terry. "English Book of the Month". Welsh Books Council. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
Sources[edit]
- Annette Kristynik (21 January 2013), "An Interview with Terry Breverton Author of The Welsh, The Biography", Impressions In Ink, retrieved 2016-02-02
- Ceri Shaw (6 June 2013), "An Interview With Welsh Author, Terry Breverton", Welsh American Bookstore, retrieved 2016-02-02
- Natalie Grueninger (21 August 2014), 20 Questions with Terry Breverton, retrieved 2016-02-01
- Stephens, Meic (16 March 2002), "review: '100 Great Welshmen' and '100 Great Welsh Women'", Western Mail Magazine, retrieved 2016-02-01
- Page 118. "Report of the Officers and Committees of the Town of Lincoln, MA for the Year 2008" (PDF).
- "Terry Breverton's top 10 great Welshmen", The Guardian, 2 June 2005, retrieved 2016-02-02
- Terry Breverton, Amberley Books, retrieved 2016-02-02
- "Terry Breverton", Amazon, retrieved 2016-02-02
- Terry Breverton, "Terry Breverton", LinkedIn, retrieved 2016-02-02
- Terry Breverton, Pelican Publishing Company, retrieved 2016-02-02
