Review:
Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales 1962-1997
by Richard King and
Hands Off Wales: Nationhood and Militancy
by Wyn Thomas From Planet 247
Nick Powell
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Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales 1962-1997
by Richard King and
Hands Off Wales: Nationhood and Militancy
by Wyn Thomas
Faber & Faber, £25.00
In the International Eisteddfod Pavilion in Llangollen there’s a large framed photograph that I mentally captioned ‘a nation on its knees’ when I first saw it. Long since relegated to a back room, it depicts the Queen and Prince Philip progressing across the maes, in the late 1950s or early 1960s, escorted by the ‘great and the good’.
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Nick Powell covered Welsh politics for HTV Wales and ITV Wales for more than thirty years. He is now Political Editor of the news website EU Reporter.
