Ned (Edward Morley) Thomas FLSW is a Welsh intellectual, editor and cultural commentator in the fields of politics, literature and language.
He was a lecturer at the Universities of Moscow, Salamanca and Aberystwyth in the Department of English and has published studies of writers as diverse as the English writer George Orwell, the Caribbean poet Derek Walcott and the Welsh poet and activist Waldo Williams as well as a study of post-war Europe from an autobiographical perspective.
[4] Although beginning his academic output with a study of the English writer George Orwell,[5] it was with The Welsh Extremist [6] that the main focus of his publishing career began.
[9] In Bydoedd (Worlds),[10] subtitled as a “cofiant cyfnod” (biography of a period) rather than a conventional autobiography, Ned Thomas reviews the events of his own life against the historical background of the post-war years in Germany, the Cold War years in Russia and the re- emergence of the national identities of minority peoples following the period of expansive nationalisms earlier in the Twentieth Century.
Ned Thomas founded the magazine PLANET in 1970, adding the subtitle ‘The Welsh Internationalist’ in 1977[11] and edited it through its first series from 1970 to 1979.