Wales and Socialism: Political Culture and National Identity Before the Great War

The late Victorian and early Edwardian eras were crucial to the spread of socialism throughout Britain, including Wales. This book offers the first full-scale study of the growth of the movement in the period, looking at it specifically in terms of the spread of ideas and the development of a political culture rather than at its structural growth. It culminates in a discussion of attempts in the years right before World War I to create a specifically Welsh socialist tradition.