Contents Overview How and why you might be contacted If you have contact with a positive case and you had your full course of the vaccine less than 14 days ago. You will have been identified as having been in close proximity to them, including: someone you have had face to face contact with at a distance of less than 1 metre, had skin-to-skin physical contact with, or that has coughed on you, or you had other forms of contact with them within 1 metre for 1 minute or longer someone that you have spent more than 15 minutes within two metres of them someone that you have travelled in a car or other small vehicle with, or someone you have been in close proximity to on public transport.
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Please check your email address. Please check your password. Having problems logging in? Reset your password. Registering opens up a far richer, personalised experience on the Bluestone website. Manage your booking, save accommodation searches and get tailored suggestions just for you! Email Me Personalise me. Henceforth, Welshness was an emotion rather than a legal or political identity. Wales remained culturally distinct because the majority of its people spoke Welsh until the end of the 19th century.
Welsh survived conquest and annexation because the state never tried to prevent it being spoken and even enhanced its status through sponsoring the Welsh translation of the Bible in order to bolster Protestantism in Wales. Nonetheless, English was the language of power and administration, and anyone who wanted to advance in life had to speak it.
By the end of 18th century, the Welsh gentry had largely become English speakers, although they too did nothing about the language their tenants spoke. The Welsh language was also protected by geography. Wales may have been politically assimilated into England but its mountains limited communication and movement westwards. Before the spread of the railways in the 19th century, most of Wales was relatively cut off from England and that helped keep the Welsh language, and thus Welsh identity, alive.
Before the late 18th century, Wales was seen by the English as a backwater, but the industrial revolution changed this. The wealth this generated, along with the wider European movement for national renewal, reinvigorated Welsh identity.
A middle class set about building a nation, creating national publications, institutions, festivals and sports teams. Religion was important to the reinvigoration of Welsh identity too. The majority of people were Nonconformists rather than Anglicans, and this was seen as further evidence that Wales and England were different. This new Wales was prosperous and confident, and it was also proud to be part of the British empire. Imperial power was key to Welsh industrial success and the vast majority of the Welsh population saw Welshness as interwoven with Britishness.
Yet, beneath this veneer of Welsh-British patriotism, industrialisation created a cultural chasm within Wales that had not existed before. At first, movement from the countryside to the new industrial regions reinforced Welsh culture there, but gradually industrial communities developed their own vibrant cultures, based around class politics and popular pastimes.
The growing industrial communities also attracted people from England in huge numbers and cultural assimilation with England now sat alongside the existing political assimilation. Industrial and rural Wales began to look as if they had different cultures, especially as migration from England and the cultural capital associated with speaking English undermined the Welsh language in urban communities.
The economic collapse of the s and s destroyed Welsh national confidence and led to mass migration to England. The impact of this on the Welsh language, alongside the long-term decline of the chapels and the rise of a mass British popular culture with cinema and media at its heart, led to fears over the very survival of Wales. In the s and s, all political parties started to look for ways of recognising Welsh nationhood. Thus, Cardiff was made a capital city, the red dragon was recognised as the official flag, the declining Welsh language was given legal status, and a government post was created to look after Wales.
These initiatives came about through a combination of political pressures and protests from within Wales, and a willingness within government to recognise the plurality of the United Kingdom. By , this process had led to the creation of the National Assembly for Wales. For the first time in its history, Wales had a democratic institution of national self-government.
Yet, in the referendum that led to its creation, only a quarter of the electorate voted in favour, while half of people chose not to vote at all.
The reality was that, although a mundane sense of Welsh identity was very powerful, the political implications of this were narrow. This raises questions about the nature of Welsh identity in the past.
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