Welsh Not

Martin Johnes is Professor of Modern History at Swansea University, and one of Wales’s best-known historians. He is the author of a series of books on Welsh history, including Wales: England’s Colony?, which was adapted into a BBC television series.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviations and notes on referencing1.The Welsh Not in History and Memory2.The Age of the Welsh Not: Language and Punishment before 18623.Learning without Understanding: The Problems of Education before 18624.The Welsh Not’s Afterlife: Punishing Welsh Speaking after the 1862 Revised Code5.The Employment of Welsh in Schools after the 1862 Revised Code6.Enemies of the Welsh Language? Her Majesty’s Inspectors and the British State7.Victims and Rebels: Children and the Welsh Not8.Parental and Community Attitudes towards Education and the Welsh Language9. Education and the Anglicisation of WalesBibliography

Few objects hold greater emotional sway in Wales than the Welsh Not. But did it actually exist? Martin Johnes shows that it did, but often in different ways to that imagined. This is a fascinating book about why and how a Welsh monoglot population was taught English, a pivotal event in the history of modern Wales.