:David Williams (historian)

{{Short description|Welsh historian}}

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David Williams (9 February 1900 – 1978) was a Welsh historian.

Williams was born at Llan-y-Cefn, Pembrokeshire.[http://www.uwp.co.uk/authors/david-williams?language=en University of Wales Press – Authors]. Retrieved 25 October 2014

From 1945 until his retirement in 1967, Williams was Professor of Welsh History in the University of Wales. He is best known for his classic History of Modern Wales.[http://www.historytoday.com/thomas-dunlap/reading-history-modern-wales History Today, 2002]Neil Evans and Coleg Harlech, "Writing the Social History of Modern Wales: Approaches, Achievements and Problems", Social History Vol. 17, No. 3 (Oct. 1992), pp. 479–492