Lansiad Llyfr / Book Launch - 'The Conservative Party in Wales, 1945-1997'

Lansiad Llyfr: The Conservative Party in Wales, 1945-1997

Noson i ddathlu a thrafod llyfr newydd Dr Sam Blaxland gyda Felicity Evans a’r cyn-AS Ceidwadol, David Melding.
Mae Cymru'n aml yn cael ei hystyried fel un o rannau mwyaf gwrth-Geidwadol Prydain. Llyfr Sam Blaxland, The Conservative Party in Wales, 1945-1997, yw’r astudiaeth fanwl gyntaf o ail blaid wleidyddol fwyaf Cymru yn y degawdau wedi'r Ail Ryfel Byd. Mae'r llyfr yn cwestiynu pam fod y blaid wedi llwyddo mewn rhai rhannau o Gymru tra’n methu mewn eraill. Mae’n trafod sut y ceisiodd y blaid gyfathrebu ei pholisïau, pwy oedd ei hymgeiswyr, a sut yr aeth y blaid ati i lunio polisïau penodol ar gyfer 'y genedl' - o gyflwyno'r Gweinidog Materion Cymreig cyntaf i wneud y Gymraeg yn bwnc gorfodol mewn ysgolion. Mae’r llyfr yn craffu ar ymgyrchwyr a Thorïaid amlwg, gan ofyn beth mae nhw’n ei ddatgelu am ddeimensiwn tanastudiedig ar hanes Cymru, sef bywydau'r dosbarth canol Seisnigedig a chymdeithasol geidwadol.

Noddwyd y digwyddiad gan Samuel Kurtz AS

Prif Neuadd, Adeilad y Pierhead, 14eg o Fai 2024 am 1800.

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Book Launch: The Conservative Party in Wales, 1945-1997

An evening to celebrate and discuss the new book by Dr Sam Blaxland with Felicity Evans and former Conservative MS, David Melding.

Wales is often considered to be one of the most anti-Conservative parts of Britain. Sam Blaxland’s The Conservative Party in Wales, 1945–1997 is the first book-length study of Wales’s second largest political party in the decades after the Second World War. From the places where Conservatism was often successful, the book questions why it did not succeed in other parts of Wales, discussing how the party communicated its policies, who its candidates were, and how the party deliberately crafted specific policies ‘for the nation’ – from introducing the first Minister for Welsh Affairs to making Welsh a compulsory subject in schools. The book scrutinises activists and prominent Tories, asking what they reveal about understudied aspects of Welsh history, particularly the lives of the Anglicised and socially conservative middle class.

The event is sponsored by Samuel Kurtz MS

Main Hall, Pierhead Building, 14th May 2024 at 1800.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Pierhead Building, Pierhead Street, Cardiff, United Kingdom