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‘M4 to Wales - and prosper!’ A history of a motorway

Martin Johnes Orcid Logo

Historical Research, Volume: 87, Issue: 237, Pages: 556 - 573

Swansea University Author: Martin Johnes Orcid Logo

DOI (Published version): 10.1111/1468-2281.12055

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The M4 is integral to the south Wales economy, shapes the area's mental geography and contributes to the sense people in and outside Wales have of the Welsh nation being somewhere that is both part of Britain but at the same time ‘other’. Moreover, the motorway's history is the history of...

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Published in: Historical Research
Published: 2014
Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2281.12055/pdf
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