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Dr Adam Evans
FRHistS
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Cymrawd Ymchwil Anrhydeddus
Trosolwyg
Mae Adam yn Uwch Glerc yn Swyddfa Biliau Cyhoeddus Tŷ'r Cyffredin. Mae hefyd yn Ysgrifennydd Ymddiriedolaeth Hanes y Senedd.
Mae Adam wedi gweithio yng ngwasanaeth Tŷ'r Cyffredin ers 2015. Ei rolau blaenorol yw:
- Clerc y Cyd-bwyllgor ar Offerynnau Statudol a chlerc y Pwyllgor Dethol ar Offerynnau Statudol (2024-2026)
- Uwch Glerc yn Swyddfa'r Cyfnodolion a Chyfarwyddwr Cwrs ar gyfer y Dystysgrif Ôl-raddedig mewn Cynghori ASau ar weithdrefn seneddol (2022-2024)
- Clerc y Pwyllgor Materion Cymreig (2019-2022)
- Ysgrifennydd Dirprwyaeth y DU i Gynulliad Seneddol NATO (2017-2019)
- Ail Glerc y Pwyllgor Amddiffyn (2017-2019)
- Pwyllgor Arbenigol (Materion Cyfansoddiadol), Y Pwyllgor Gweinyddiaeth Gyhoeddus a Materion Cyfansoddiadol (2015-17)
Yn Gymrawd Ymchwil er Anrhydedd ers 2015, mae Adam wedi cyhoeddi'n eang ar hanes cyfansoddiadol Prydain ac agweddau ar ddatganoli yn y Deyrnas Unedig, gan gynnwys yn flaenorol ar y system bleidiau yng Nghymru ac yn yr Alban. Mae ei waith yn Nhŷ'r Cyffredin wedi cynnwys profiad o ddrafftio adroddiadau ac arwain ymchwiliadau ar English Votes for English Laws, diwygio pwerau Tŷ'r Arglwyddi ac ar Refferendwm yr UE.
Cyhoeddiad
2026
- Evans, A. 2026. From new dawn to new dispensation: the rapid unravelling of the Government of Wales Act 1998, the Richard Commission and the road to the Government of Wales Act 2006. Contemporary British History 40 (2), pp.286-314. (10.1080/13619462.2026.2657349)
- Evans, A. 2026. The Conservative Party in Wales 1945-1997. Sam Blaxland, 2024 [Book review]. Modern British History 37 (1) hwag006. (10.1093/tcbh/hwag006)
- Evans, A. 2026. The House of Lords and devolution: Already a chamber of the nations and regions?. Political Quarterly (10.1111/1467-923x.70055)
2025
- Evans, A. 2025. A constitutional out of body experience? The Body Corporate and the unravelling of the first Welsh devolution dispensation. The Welsh History Review 32 (4), pp.721-748. (10.16922/whr.32.4.5)
- Evans, A. 2025. Total recall? Senedd reform and the balance between parties and voters: the case study of the Standards of Conduct Committee's recall proposals. Public Law Oct , pp.639-647.
- Evans, A. 2025. Senedd reform: from aspiration to cold-headed reality?. Political Quarterly 96 , pp.164-172. (10.1111/1467-923X.13469)
- Evans, A. 2025. ‘Inevitably the package will be dismissed […] as inadequate and grudging’: regionalism, ambivalence and the road to the North East of England referendum defeat in 2004. Parliaments, Estates and Representation 45 (1), pp.169-190. (10.1080/02606755.2025.2450198)
- Evans, A. 2025. The Wilson Government, the rise of nationalism and the road to the Royal Commission on the Constitution, 1966-1968. Contemporary British History 39 , pp.55-77. (10.1080/13619462.2024.2382116)
- Evans, A. 2025. Western and southern Europe: Wales. In: Lewis, D. S. and Slater, W. eds. The Annual Register: World Events 2024. Vol. 266, Ann Arbor, Michigan: ProQuest. , pp.28-29.
2024
- Evans, A. 2024. II Western and Southern Europe: Wales. In: Lewis, D. and Slater, W. eds. The Annual Register: World Events 2023. Vol. 265, Ann Arbor, United States of America: ProQuest. , pp.25-26.
- Evans, A. 2024. Welsh devolution 1999-2021: constitutional instability amidst institutionalized conservatism?. Parliaments, Estates and Representation 44 (2), pp.208-226. (10.1080/02606755.2023.2295073)
2023
- Evans, A. 2023. From an experiment to a new normal: indirect rule in Northern Ireland. Public Law 2023 (Oct), pp.549-557.
- Evans, A. 2023. ‘There will be no shortage of Cabinet ministers taking part in the Scottish referendum campaign. The same is not true in Wales’: New Labour, old struggles, and the advent of Welsh devolution. Parliamentary History 42 (2), pp.255-273. (10.1111/1750-0206.12689)
- Evans, A. 2023. Birth pangs or a honeymoon from hell? The long annus horribilis for Welsh devolution, 1998?2000. Contemporary British History 37 (2), pp.192-215. (10.1080/13619462.2023.2167077)
- Evans, A. 2023. II Western and Southern Europe: Wales. In: Lewis, D. and Slater, W. eds. The Annual Register: World Events 2022. Vol. 264, Ann Arbor, United States of America: ProQuest. , pp.25-26.
2022
- Evans, A. 2022. The House of Commons and devolution. Public Law 2022 (Oct), pp.616-633.
- Evans, A. 2022. Parliamentary representation at Westminster and devolution: from the "in and out" to EVEL. Public Law 2022 (Jan), pp.9-18.
2021
- Evans, A. 2021. “This Welsh Problem”: Churchill and the creation of a Minister for Welsh Affairs. Finest hour : the journal of Winston Churchill (193), pp.35-39.
- Evans, A. 2021. Northern Ireland, 2017-2020: an experiment in indirect rule. Public Law 2021 (July), pp.471-480.
- Evans, A. 2021. ‘Far reaching and perhaps destructive’? The 1974–79 Labour Government, devolution and the emergence, and failure, of the Scotland and Wales Bill. Parliaments, Estates and Representation 41 (1), pp.42-61. (10.1080/02606755.2021.1894543)
2020
- Evans, A. 2020. ‘The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men’? Proposals, planning, defeat, and legacy, of devolution in the 1970s. Parliamentary History 39 (3), pp.462-480. (10.1111/1750-0206.12524)
- Evans, A. 2020. Scotland at Westminster. In: Keating, M. ed. The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Politics. Oxford Handbooks Oxford University Press. , pp.584-601. (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198825098.013.30)
- Evans, A. 2020. A Parliamentary Entente Cordiale? The House of Commons Defence Committee's Joint Inquiry with the Assemblée Nationale's Standing Committee on National Defence and the Armed Forces. Political Quarterly 91 (1), pp.228-234. (10.1111/1467-923X.12793)
- Evans, A. 2020. A tale as old as (devolved) time? Sewel, Stormont and the Legislative Consent Convention. Political Quarterly 91 (1), pp.165-172. (10.1111/1467-923X.12795)
2019
- Torrance, D. and Evans, A. 2019. The Territorial Select Committees, 40 years on. Parliamentary Affairs 72 (4), pp.860-878. (10.1093/pa/gsz032)
- Evans, A. 2019. Inter-parliamentary relations in the United Kingdom: devolution’s undiscovered country?. Parliaments, Estates and Representation 39 (1), pp.98-112. (10.1080/02606755.2018.1487648)
2018
- Evans, A. B. 2018. Devolution and parliamentary representation: the case of the Scotland and Wales Bill, 1976–7. Parliamentary History 37 (2), pp.274-292. (10.1111/1750-0206.12365)
- Evans, A. 2018. Planning for Brexit: the case of the 1975 Referendum. Political Quarterly 89 (1), pp.127-133. (10.1111/1467-923X.12412)
2016
- Evans, A. 2016. ‘Too old a country … too long accustomed to regard her life as one and indivisible’: England and the Speaker’s Conference on Devolution. Contemporary British History 31 (3), pp.366-383. (10.1080/13619462.2016.1245620)
- Evans, A. B. 2016. A lingering diminuendo? The conference on devolution,1919–20. Parliamentary History 35 (3), pp.315-335. (10.1111/1750-0206.12238)
- Evans, A. B. 2016. Wales as nation or region? The Conference on Devolution's Judiciary sub-committee, 1919–20. Welsh History Review 28 (1), pp.146-173. (10.16922/whr.28.1.6)
2015
- Evans, A. 2015. An interlude of agreement? A reassessment of the Conference on Devolution's ‘consensus’ on powers. Contemporary British History 29 (4), pp.421-440. (10.1080/13619462.2015.1015421)
- Evans, A. B. 2015. A “lingering diminuendo”? The Conference on Devolution 1919-1920. PhD Thesis , Cardiff University.
- Evans, A. B. 2015. Back to the future? Warnings from history for a future UK constitutional convention. Political Quarterly 86 (1), pp.24-32. (10.1111/1467-923X.12135)
- Evans, A. B. 2015. The squeezed middle? The Liberal Democrats in Wales and Scotland: A post-coalition reassessment. Scottish Affairs 24 (2), pp.163-186. (10.3366/scot.2015.0065)
2014
- Evans, A. 2014. Federalists in name only? Reassessing the federal credentials of the Liberal Democrats: An English case study. British Politics 9 , pp.346-358. (10.1057/bp.2014.5)
- Evans, A. B. 2014. Analogue in a digital age? Welsh Labour's organisation in post-devolved Wales, 1999-2009. Llafur: the Journal of Welsh People’s History , pp.128-145.
2013
- Evans, A. B. 2013. Research note: Oh brother, where art thou? The position of the Scottish and Welsh Liberal Democrats within the Federal Liberal Democrats. Contemporary Wales 26 (1), pp.242-255.
Adrannau llyfrau
- Evans, A. 2025. Western and southern Europe: Wales. In: Lewis, D. S. and Slater, W. eds. The Annual Register: World Events 2024. Vol. 266, Ann Arbor, Michigan: ProQuest. , pp.28-29.
- Evans, A. 2024. II Western and Southern Europe: Wales. In: Lewis, D. and Slater, W. eds. The Annual Register: World Events 2023. Vol. 265, Ann Arbor, United States of America: ProQuest. , pp.25-26.
- Evans, A. 2023. II Western and Southern Europe: Wales. In: Lewis, D. and Slater, W. eds. The Annual Register: World Events 2022. Vol. 264, Ann Arbor, United States of America: ProQuest. , pp.25-26.
- Evans, A. 2020. Scotland at Westminster. In: Keating, M. ed. The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Politics. Oxford Handbooks Oxford University Press. , pp.584-601. (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198825098.013.30)
Erthyglau
- Evans, A. 2026. From new dawn to new dispensation: the rapid unravelling of the Government of Wales Act 1998, the Richard Commission and the road to the Government of Wales Act 2006. Contemporary British History 40 (2), pp.286-314. (10.1080/13619462.2026.2657349)
- Evans, A. 2026. The Conservative Party in Wales 1945-1997. Sam Blaxland, 2024 [Book review]. Modern British History 37 (1) hwag006. (10.1093/tcbh/hwag006)
- Evans, A. 2026. The House of Lords and devolution: Already a chamber of the nations and regions?. Political Quarterly (10.1111/1467-923x.70055)
- Evans, A. 2025. A constitutional out of body experience? The Body Corporate and the unravelling of the first Welsh devolution dispensation. The Welsh History Review 32 (4), pp.721-748. (10.16922/whr.32.4.5)
- Evans, A. 2025. Total recall? Senedd reform and the balance between parties and voters: the case study of the Standards of Conduct Committee's recall proposals. Public Law Oct , pp.639-647.
- Evans, A. 2025. Senedd reform: from aspiration to cold-headed reality?. Political Quarterly 96 , pp.164-172. (10.1111/1467-923X.13469)
- Evans, A. 2025. ‘Inevitably the package will be dismissed […] as inadequate and grudging’: regionalism, ambivalence and the road to the North East of England referendum defeat in 2004. Parliaments, Estates and Representation 45 (1), pp.169-190. (10.1080/02606755.2025.2450198)
- Evans, A. 2025. The Wilson Government, the rise of nationalism and the road to the Royal Commission on the Constitution, 1966-1968. Contemporary British History 39 , pp.55-77. (10.1080/13619462.2024.2382116)
- Evans, A. 2024. Welsh devolution 1999-2021: constitutional instability amidst institutionalized conservatism?. Parliaments, Estates and Representation 44 (2), pp.208-226. (10.1080/02606755.2023.2295073)
- Evans, A. 2023. From an experiment to a new normal: indirect rule in Northern Ireland. Public Law 2023 (Oct), pp.549-557.
- Evans, A. 2023. ‘There will be no shortage of Cabinet ministers taking part in the Scottish referendum campaign. The same is not true in Wales’: New Labour, old struggles, and the advent of Welsh devolution. Parliamentary History 42 (2), pp.255-273. (10.1111/1750-0206.12689)
- Evans, A. 2023. Birth pangs or a honeymoon from hell? The long annus horribilis for Welsh devolution, 1998?2000. Contemporary British History 37 (2), pp.192-215. (10.1080/13619462.2023.2167077)
- Evans, A. 2022. The House of Commons and devolution. Public Law 2022 (Oct), pp.616-633.
- Evans, A. 2022. Parliamentary representation at Westminster and devolution: from the "in and out" to EVEL. Public Law 2022 (Jan), pp.9-18.
- Evans, A. 2021. “This Welsh Problem”: Churchill and the creation of a Minister for Welsh Affairs. Finest hour : the journal of Winston Churchill (193), pp.35-39.
- Evans, A. 2021. Northern Ireland, 2017-2020: an experiment in indirect rule. Public Law 2021 (July), pp.471-480.
- Evans, A. 2021. ‘Far reaching and perhaps destructive’? The 1974–79 Labour Government, devolution and the emergence, and failure, of the Scotland and Wales Bill. Parliaments, Estates and Representation 41 (1), pp.42-61. (10.1080/02606755.2021.1894543)
- Evans, A. 2020. ‘The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men’? Proposals, planning, defeat, and legacy, of devolution in the 1970s. Parliamentary History 39 (3), pp.462-480. (10.1111/1750-0206.12524)
- Evans, A. 2020. A Parliamentary Entente Cordiale? The House of Commons Defence Committee's Joint Inquiry with the Assemblée Nationale's Standing Committee on National Defence and the Armed Forces. Political Quarterly 91 (1), pp.228-234. (10.1111/1467-923X.12793)
- Evans, A. 2020. A tale as old as (devolved) time? Sewel, Stormont and the Legislative Consent Convention. Political Quarterly 91 (1), pp.165-172. (10.1111/1467-923X.12795)
- Torrance, D. and Evans, A. 2019. The Territorial Select Committees, 40 years on. Parliamentary Affairs 72 (4), pp.860-878. (10.1093/pa/gsz032)
- Evans, A. 2019. Inter-parliamentary relations in the United Kingdom: devolution’s undiscovered country?. Parliaments, Estates and Representation 39 (1), pp.98-112. (10.1080/02606755.2018.1487648)
- Evans, A. B. 2018. Devolution and parliamentary representation: the case of the Scotland and Wales Bill, 1976–7. Parliamentary History 37 (2), pp.274-292. (10.1111/1750-0206.12365)
- Evans, A. 2018. Planning for Brexit: the case of the 1975 Referendum. Political Quarterly 89 (1), pp.127-133. (10.1111/1467-923X.12412)
- Evans, A. 2016. ‘Too old a country … too long accustomed to regard her life as one and indivisible’: England and the Speaker’s Conference on Devolution. Contemporary British History 31 (3), pp.366-383. (10.1080/13619462.2016.1245620)
- Evans, A. B. 2016. A lingering diminuendo? The conference on devolution,1919–20. Parliamentary History 35 (3), pp.315-335. (10.1111/1750-0206.12238)
- Evans, A. B. 2016. Wales as nation or region? The Conference on Devolution's Judiciary sub-committee, 1919–20. Welsh History Review 28 (1), pp.146-173. (10.16922/whr.28.1.6)
- Evans, A. 2015. An interlude of agreement? A reassessment of the Conference on Devolution's ‘consensus’ on powers. Contemporary British History 29 (4), pp.421-440. (10.1080/13619462.2015.1015421)
- Evans, A. B. 2015. Back to the future? Warnings from history for a future UK constitutional convention. Political Quarterly 86 (1), pp.24-32. (10.1111/1467-923X.12135)
- Evans, A. B. 2015. The squeezed middle? The Liberal Democrats in Wales and Scotland: A post-coalition reassessment. Scottish Affairs 24 (2), pp.163-186. (10.3366/scot.2015.0065)
- Evans, A. 2014. Federalists in name only? Reassessing the federal credentials of the Liberal Democrats: An English case study. British Politics 9 , pp.346-358. (10.1057/bp.2014.5)
- Evans, A. B. 2014. Analogue in a digital age? Welsh Labour's organisation in post-devolved Wales, 1999-2009. Llafur: the Journal of Welsh People’s History , pp.128-145.
- Evans, A. B. 2013. Research note: Oh brother, where art thou? The position of the Scottish and Welsh Liberal Democrats within the Federal Liberal Democrats. Contemporary Wales 26 (1), pp.242-255.
Gosodiad
- Evans, A. B. 2015. A “lingering diminuendo”? The Conference on Devolution 1919-1920. PhD Thesis , Cardiff University.
Ymchwil
Fy mhrif ddiddordebau ymchwil yw:
- Datganoli
- Hanes cyfansoddiadol y DU
- Hanes gwleidyddol Prydain ers y Ddeddf Diwygio Mawr
- Gwleidyddiaeth fodern Cymru
- Hanes a gwleidyddiaeth Gogledd Iwerddon
Addysgu
Adam has been a regular contributor to the LLM Constitutionalism and Governance module, as well as leading lectures on Parliament and Devolution and Parliament and the Legislative Process for the undergraduate Parliamentary Studies module.
Bywgraffiad
Mae Adam yn Uwch Glerc yn Swyddfa Biliau Cyhoeddus Tŷ'r Cyffredin. Mae Adam wedi gweithio mewn amrywiaeth o swyddi yn Nhŷ'r Cyffredin ers 2015, gan gynnwys bod yn Glerc y Cyd-bwyllgor ar Offerynnau Statudol, Cyfarwyddwr Cwrs cymhwyster gweithdrefnol proffesiynol blaenllaw y Senedd (wedi'i achredu gan Brifysgol City St George's), clercio'r Pwyllgor Materion Cymreig, a bod yn Ysgrifennydd Dirprwyaeth y DU i Gynulliad Seneddol NATO. Ar hyn o bryd ef hefyd yw'r Ysgrifennydd i Ymddiriedolaeth Hanes y Senedd.
Mae gan Adam berthynas hirsefydlog gyda Chanolfan Llywodraethiant Cymru a Phrifysgol Caerdydd. Ymunodd â Chanolfan Llywodraethiant Cymru am y tro cyntaf fel ymgeisydd PhD yn 2012 a chwblhaodd ei astudiaethau israddedig ac ôl-raddedig ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd. Roedd ei PhD yn archwilio Cynhadledd y Llefarydd ar Ddatganoli, 1919-1920 – un o ddau achlysur yn unig lle ystyriwyd llywodraethu tiriogaethol y DU 'yn y rownd' gan wneuthurwyr polisi yn San Steffan. Mae gwaith academaidd Adam wedi canolbwyntio ar hanes cyfansoddiadol y DU a datganoli yn y DU. Mae hefyd wedi cynnal ymchwil o'r blaen ar y Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol fel plaid ffederal yn system bleidiau y DU, ar ôl datganoli. Mae Adam wedi bod yn Gymrawd Ymchwil er Anrhydedd ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd ers 2015.
Anrhydeddau a dyfarniadau
- President's Research Scholarship (Cardiff University): full PhD scholarship, 2012-2015
- James Pantefedwyn Foundation Scholarship: fees and partial stipend grant for Masters study, 2011-2012
- John Cross Prize (Cardiff University): Awarded for highest average performance for final year Politics undergraduate, 2011
- Charles Morgan Prize (Cardiff University): Awarded for best first year undergraduate student performance in Welsh history, 2009
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
- Cymdeithas Astudiaethau Gwleidyddol (Aelod)
- Cymdeithas Hansard (Aelod)
- Y Gymdeithas Hanes Frenhinol (Cymrawd)
- Grŵp Astudio o'r Senedd (Aelod)
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Arbenigeddau
- Cyfraith gyfansoddiadol
- Hanes gwleidyddol
- Gwleidyddiaeth Ddatganoledig
- Llywodraeth Cymru a gwleidyddiaeth
- Llywodraeth a gwleidyddiaeth Gogledd Iwerddon