Tryweryn: A New Dawn?

by Thomas, Dr Wyn | Wales
Published 10/07/2023 by Y LOLFA in United Kingdom
Paperback | 384 pages, c.30 photos

Definitive account of the cultural and political impact on Wales of the flooding of the Tryweryn Valley. The failure of the nation to block the move politically led to increased Welsh national consciousness and to a period of militant activism which eventually led to the process of devolution.

Dr Wyn Thomas was born in Llandrindod, the son of a police officer who routinely searched water pipelines for explosive devices in the late 1960s. Wyn’s doctoral thesis, ‘Wales and Militancy 1952-1970′, was marked by one of Wales’ most renowned and celebrated historians, Dr John Davies. He now works freelance in academia, the media and as a respected musician and songwriter.