Writing the social history of modern Wales: Approaches, achievements and problems∗

A Return to the National Paradigm? National History Writing in Germany, Italy, France, and Britain from 1945 to the Present

“…73 The emergence of social history also helped to put modern Welsh history on the map. 74 If it was easy to write off Wales as a case of failed state building in political history, in social history Welshness could become an organizing principle. Thus, Gwyn Alf Williams's When Was Wales?…”