Author Martin Johnes says, ‘This is a wide ranging book, just as Wales is a very wide ranging place. As well as all the topics you’d expect to see – politics, nationalism, coal and rugby – it also looks at aspects of ordinary life that historians often overlook but that mattered to people all the same.
Thus this is a history of Wales that includes house prices, supermarkets, television and even hairstyles. I hope it not only shows readers in Wales that our history is very diverse but that is also shows readers outside Wales that this small nation is important for a full understanding of what Britain and Britishness are’.
Wales since 1939 is published with the financial aid of the Welsh Books Council, a body funded by the Welsh Government to promote publishing in and about Wales.
The first episode of The Story of Wales will be broadcast on BBC1 (Wales only) Monday 27th February and is available in the rest of the UK via BBC iPlayer, Freesat 964, Sky 972 or Virgin Media 864.
