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Twentieth-century Britain : a very short introduction
This brief history of 20th-century Britain examines the forces of consensus and of conflict in this period of British history. Throughout, cultural and artistic themes are woven into the analysis, along with the distinct national experiences of Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
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Revolution to devolution
This is an integrated range of studies focusing on Wales by a long-established and internationally-recognised academic authority and member of the House of Lords on the advance of democracy and the evolving idea of national identity in modern Britain.
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Welsh Devolution
This historic day, 18 September 1998, recalls for me not one anniversary but two. Of course, it marks the first anniversary of the very narrow endorsement of Welsh devolution in the referendum on which I was a television commentator, immured, oddly enough, in Cardiff castle. But a few hours later came the publication of my official biography of Lord Callaghan. One launch of it took place in Cardiff City Hall, hailed that day by the leader of the council as the building that would house the new Welsh Assembly. The coincidence of these two events was striking – not only for
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Postscript
All the strains of Europeanism associated with the four men discussed in the previous chapter have left their historical imprint – the rationalist republicanism of David Williams, the gospel of nationhood of Tom Ellis, the militant organic nationalism of Saunders Lewis, the social democracy of Rhodri Morgan. But they have led to different destinations and made the achievement of a national agenda more difficult and divisive. After all, a potpourri composed of Condorcet, Mazzini, Barrès and Jacques Delors would contain highly miscellaneous ingredients. It would be difficult to see the Europhile dream of ‘a Europe of the mind’, of which David
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Power and Glory
On 2 September 1939 Arthur Greenwood rose in the House of Commons to give Labour’s backing for the government’s ultimatum to Hitler. As he did so, he was urged, in a famous intervention by Leo Amery on the Tory benches (heard by everybody but not recorded inHansard), to ‘speak for England’, Greenwood, a social patriot to his core, could equally well have been told, ‘Speak for Wales’. For his and his party’s uncompromising commitment to going to war was exactly the view of all parts of the labour movement in Wales as it was in Britain as a whole.
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Kentucky’s cottage-bred man
The Welsh, like other small nations, delight in praising famous men (famous women far less often). In 2009, three particular heroes had key anniversaries commemorated – President Lincoln, Mr Gladstone and George Frideric Handel. The last may be left to Messianic celebration elsewhere. Gladstone’s celebrity resulted from the overwhelming Liberal ascendancy in Wales from the 1868 general election onwards. After all, he married a Welsh woman and lived in Wales, in Hawarden Castle, Flintshire.¹ Abraham Lincoln, born and bred in the far-away American mid-west, is a more surprising hero, but perhaps the most emblematic of them all. Long before his assassination,
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