Non Fiction

Welsh Europeans

John Osmond

Category: Current Affairs, Non Fiction

Number of pages: 195

ISBN: 9781854111562

Publication date: June 9, 2006

Price: £6.96

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Welsh Europeans takes a fresh look at the identity and future of Wales as a new century approaches. There is a gulf between the ability of the Welsh people to have any real say over how they are governed and the Quango-driven government they endure. There is an increasing contradiction between Welshness and Britishness. Living with this contradiction is becoming less easy in the 1990s, since the meaning of Britishness is being drained away. It has been a long process but now is accelerating as the European dimension of our affairs gathers pace. ’In the past we have been Welsh British subjects,’ says the author. ’In future we can become Welsh European citizens’.

John Osmond

John Osmond is a writer and journalist, having worked for newspapers and broadcasters in Wales over the past five decades. John graduated from the University of Bristol and began his career in journalism with Yorkshire Post Newspapers in the 1960s, later working with The Western Mail and HTV Wales in the 1970s and 1980s. He has published widely on Welsh politics and culture. His first novel, Ten Million Stars Are Burning, was published by Gomer in 2018. His latest book Real Preseli is out now.

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