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History and the Making and Remaking of Wales
Martin Johnes 
History, Volume: 100, Issue: 343, Pages: 667 - 684
Swansea University Author:
Martin Johnes
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DOI (Published version): 10.1111/1468-229X.12141
Abstract
History - both in the sense of the past itself and representations of that past - has been employed over the centuries to assert a Welsh identity. Indeed, by the early twentieth century, history was a defining constituent of national identity in Wales. This article explores how history continued to...
| Published in: | History |
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| ISSN: | 00182648 |
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2015
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21049 |
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History - both in the sense of the past itself and representations of that past - has been employed over the centuries to assert a Welsh identity. Indeed, by the early twentieth century, history was a defining constituent of national identity in Wales. This article explores how history continued to be used to promote Welsh identity after the Second World War, a practice that grew, particularly in education, as concerns over the future of traditional Welsh culture deepened. Yet popular understandings of the past were frequently fragmented and distorted, even as the depictions of the past put forward by academics and the heritage sector grew more nuanced. Consequently, as the post-1945 period continued, popular understandings of history began to undermine the development of the embryonic nation state that was emerging in Wales |
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| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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343 |
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667 |
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684 |