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Born 1946 Birmingham, England Books Everything You Ever Wanted t, Owain Glyndwr: The Story, The Tudor Kitchen: What the, The Welsh: The Biography, The Pirate Dictionary Similar Owain Glyndŵr, Alexandre Exquemelin, Phil Carradice, William Williams Pantycelyn, Richard III of England | ||
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Terry Breverton (born 1946) is a British former businessman and academic who has written many books on subjects related to Wales.
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Life
Terry Breverton was born in Birmingham in 1946. His parents were Welsh, and he was brought up in Wales. He studied in England at the universities of Manchester, Birmingham and Lancaster. He worked for many years in international business and consultancy. He was a management consultant in the production industry, and a marketing director. Breverton then became an academic, and lectured in Milan, Bologna and Wales. He became a senior business lecturer at the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff. He lectured on marketing and management at the Cardiff Business School, and was awarded a Helm Fellowship at Indiana University. He became a Fellow of the Institute of Consulting and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Breverton has said that the skills he developed in research and writing as a management consultant transferred easily into writing history books. In 2000 Breverton founded Glyndwr Publishing and WalesBooks.com. Glyndwr Publishing published books by Breverton and other authors who were unable to get their non-fiction work on Wales accepted by other publishers. Since 2008 he has been a full-time writer and editor. He has also presented documentaries on the Discovery Channel and the History Channel. Breverton is interested in reviving interest in Welsh culture and history, which has been the main focus of his books. 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."
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." Breverton won the "Book of the Month" award of the Welsh Books Council five times.