Ralph Alan Griffiths is a historian and an emeritus professor at Swansea University.
[1] He is a graduate of the University of Bristol and was appointed to a research post, and then promoted to higher academic positions, at Swansea in 1964.
[2] In 2001 he delivered the British Academy's Sir John Rhŷs Memorial Lecture.
[3] In 2004, Griffiths was appointed general editor of the Gwent County History, published in five volumes between 2004 and 2013.
[5] In 2021, he was awarded the Derek Allen Prize for Celtic studies by the British Academy.