Table of contents : Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: The Return of the Native Culture Who Speaks for Wales? Welsh Culture The Arts in Wales Wales and England Community West of Offa’s Dyke History The Social Significance of 1926 Boyhood On Gwyn A. Williams: Three Reviews The Black Domain Putting the Welsh in their Place The Shadow of the Dragon Remaking Welsh History ‘For Britain, see Wales’ Black Mountains Literature Dylan Thomas’s Play for Voices Marxism, Poetry, Wales The Welsh Industrial Novel The Welsh Trilogy and The Volunteers Freedom and a Lack of Confidence The Tenses of Imagination Region and Class in the Novel Working-Class, Proletarian, Socialist: Problems in Some Welsh Novels A Welsh Companion All Things Betray Thee People of the Black Mountains Politics Going into Europe The Importance of Community Are We Becoming More Divided? The Culture of Nations Decentralism and the Politics of Place The Practice of Possibility Afterword to the Centenary Edition Index