Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-97 ('Oral history at its revelatory best' DAVID KYNASTON)

Author: Mr Richard King Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 There is no present in Wales, / And no future; / There is only the past, / Brittle with relics - 'A Welsh Landscape', R. S. Thomas In the closing third of the twentieth century, Wales experienced the simultaneous effects of deindustrialisation, the subsequent loss of employment and community cohesion, and the struggle for its language and identity. These changes were largely forced upon the country, whose own voice, rarely...Read more