‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
On the centenary of Britain’s first Labour government, three recent histories cast a sympathetic eye over Ramsay MacDonald’s nine months in Number 10.
Rhian E. Jones
Backbone of the Nation by Robert Gildea review
Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85 by Robert Gildea is shaped more by heartbreak than heroism.
Welsh Enough
A blend of fatalism and hope in 20th century Wales.
Y Byd Newydd
From Ohio’s farmlands to Pennsylvania’s coalfields: how Welsh is America?