A01=John Gilbert Evans
Author_John Gilbert Evans
Category=JPH
Devolution
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Product details
- ISBN 9780708319901
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 10 Nov 2006
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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1937-1979 was a distinctive period in the political history of Wales. It began with a demand by MPs from all parties that a secretary of state be appointed, and ended in 1979 with the referendum on a Welsh assembly, the 'end of an era' in the words of Lord Cledwyn. This book shows how devolution was an issue in Welsh politics during the period under review, how British governments responded to devolutionists' demands, and how much was eventually conceded. Early on, two important developments were the setting up in 1949 of the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire and the appointment in 1951 of a minister for Welsh Affairs. Significantly the Council recommended in 1957 that a secretary of state be appointed and Labour acted on that proposal in 1964. The book examines the changing pattern of Labour thinking with regard to Wales and also the various nationalist challenges that threatened its dominance in the 1960s and 1970s. The referendum on the Labour government's devolution proposals is seen as bringing to an end a period in which both Labour and Conservative governments had been forced into a consideration of Welsh matters, and had been made to think about the precise way in which Wales should be administered within the British system.
John Gilbert Evans is retired. He was formerly Head of Educational Studies at the University of Wales, Newport, and Chairman of governors, Ysgol Gymraeg Casnewydd.
