Devolution in Wales by John Gilbert Evans
1937-1979 was a distinctive period in the political history of Wales. It began with a demand by MPs from all parties that a secretary of state be appointed, and ended in 1979 with the referendum on a Welsh assembly, the 'end of an era' in the words of Lord Cledwyn. This book shows how devolution was an issue in Welsh politics during the period under review, how British governments responded to devolutionists' demands, and how much was eventually conceded. Early on, two important developments were the setting up in 1949 of the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire and the appointment in 1951 of a minister for Welsh Affairs. Significantly the Council recommended in 1957 that a secretary of state be appointed and Labour acted on that proposal in 1964. The book examines the changing pattern of Labour thinking with regard to Wales and also the various nationalist challenges that threatened its dominance in the 1960s and 1970s. The referendum on the Labour government's devolution proposals is seen as bringing to an end a period in which both Labour and Conservative governments had been forced into a consideration of Welsh matters, and had been made to think about the precise way in which Wales should be administered within the British system.-
The North Wales Quarrymen, 1874-1922
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Wales and Socialism
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The Women's Suffrage Movement in Wales, 1866-1928
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War and Society in Medieval Wales 633-1283
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Wales and the Crusades
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Aftermath
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Political Power in Medieval Gwynedd
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The South Wales Miners
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Intelligent Town
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The Communist Party of Great Britain and the National Question in Wales, 1920-1991
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Cardiganshire and the Cardi, c.1760-c.2000
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Urban Assimilation in Post-Conquest Wales
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The Opposition to the Great War in Wales 1914-1918
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The Labyrinth of Flames
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A Forgotten Army
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Soccer and Society in South Wales, 1900-1939
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Learning, Law and Religion
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Labour's Crisis
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Emlyn Hooson and the Welsh Liberal Party, 1962-1979
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The Lordship of Denbigh 1282-1543
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Waging War and Building Peace
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Leaders and Teachers
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Immigration and Integration
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Wales in America
..an attractively produced tome. All these seminal themes, and others, are competently analysed by the author. His research, undertaken mainly in the first half of the 1980s, was thorough, embracing archival sources, newspapers and journals, official and party publications and a wide range of secondary literature. The conclusions he reaches are judicious and penetrating. This volume must be welcomed as an authoritative, readable account, well accessible to the general reader, the student and the professional academic alike. J. Graham Jones, PlanetAThe last decade has witnessed a revival of interest in the history of Welsh devolution, and Mr. Evans's study on the period from 1937 to 1979 is a valuable and important addition to the growing literature in the ever-developing devolution story.AAndrew Edwards, Welsh History Review 24 Part 1
John Gilbert Evans is the former Head of Educational Studies, University of Wales, Newport.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780708319901 |
| ISBN 10 | 0708319904 |
| Title | Devolution in Wales |
| Author | John Gilbert Evans |
| Series | Studies In Welsh History |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Wales Press |
| Year published | 2006-11-10 |
| Number of pages | 174 |
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