{"title":"Books by Richard Wyn Jones","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780192867599","title":"Englishness","description":"Until the Brexit referendum, there was widespread doubt as to whether English nationalism existed at all, at least beyond a small fringe. Since then, it has come to be regarded an obvious explanation for the vote to Leave the European Union. Subsequent opinion polls have raised doubts about the extent of continuing English commitment to the Union of the United Kingdom itself. Yet even as Englishness is apparently reshaping Britain's place in world and perhaps, ultimately, the state itself, it remains poorly understood.In this book Ailsa Henderson and Richard Wyn Jones draw on data from the Future of England Survey, a specially commissioned public attitudes survey programme exploring the political implications of English identity, to make new and original arguments about the nature of English nationalism.They demonstrate that English nationalism is emphatically not a rejection of Britain and Britishness. Rather, English nationalism combines a sense of grievance about England's place within the United Kingdom with a fierce commitment to a particular vision of Britain's past, present, and future. Understanding its Janus-faced nature - both England and Britain - is key not only to understanding English nationalism, but also to understanding the ways in which it is transforming British politics.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":56226167980405,"sku":"9780192867599","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57685841379701,"sku":"9780198870784","price":41.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780192867599.jpg?v=1792599049"},{"product_id":"9781786839435","title":"The Welsh Criminal Justice System","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first systematic account of criminal justice in self-governed Wales.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Welsh criminal justice system is unique. While Wales has been self-governed for nearly twenty-five years, the country lacks the equivalent of Scotland or Northern Ireland’s independent judiciaries and justice systems. Yet the extensive responsibilities of Wales’s own institutions ensure that they necessarily play a significant role in criminal justice. As a result, the Welsh criminal justice system operates across a ‘jagged edge’ of devolved and reserved powers and responsibilities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book provides the first academic account of this system. It demonstrates not only that Wales has some of the worst criminal justice outcomes in western Europe, but that even if the will existed to address these problems, the current constitutional underpinnings of the Welsh criminal justice system would make it nigh-on impossible. Based on official data and in-depth interviews, this is an urgent and challenging book, required reading for anyone interested in Welsh politics and society.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305836949877,"sku":"9781786839435","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781786839435_d5ef12a5-c18e-48b0-9d3b-d1893507ebdd.jpg?v=1786026145"},{"product_id":"9781837721832","title":"Putting Wales First","description":"\u003cb\u003eA thorough analysis of the Plaid Cymru Party of Wales.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This is the first book to discuss the development of the political thought of Plaid Cymru from its foundation to the dawn of the twenty-first century when the party emerged as the main opposition party in the devolved Senedd. It provides a chronological overview of Plaid Cymru’s ideological development by focusing on the influence of the party’s leaders in three different periods: Saunders Lewis, Gwynfor Evans, and the era of the two Dafydds (Wigley and Elis-Thomas). The book discusses tensions and disagreements within the party during each of these periods as well as the ideas and influence of other leading figures. In doing so, the book challenges much of the received wisdom about the party as well as its key thinkers. Widely lauded at the time of its original publication in Welsh as the most authoritative account of Plaid Cymru, its appearance in English is sure to be widely welcomed.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307811516789,"sku":"9781837721832","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781837721832_9dac1d4f-b61f-482c-a530-d265eefced47.jpg?v=1786028027"},{"product_id":"rhoi-cymru-n-gyntaf","title":"Rhoi Cymru’n Gyntaf","description":"Yn y gyfrol arloesol hon mae Richard Wyn Jones yn olrhain datblygiad syniadaethol Plaid Cymru o’i geni ym misoedd gaeaf 1924–5 hyd at sefydlu Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru yn haf 1999. Trwy gyfrwng astudiaeth wreiddiol a heriol o gredoau gwleidyddol ei harweinwyr pwysicaf – Saunders Lewis, Gwynfor Evans a’r ddau Ddafydd, Dafydd Elis-Thomas a Dafydd Wigley – cawn ddilyn ymdaith y Blaid o gyrion y llwyfan gwleidyddol hyd at drothwy’r Gymru ddatganoledig. Rhoddir sylw arbennig i’r datblygiadau a welwyd ym mholisïau cyfansoddiadol ac economaidd y Blaid, yn ogystal ag yn ei safbwynt tuag at yr iaith Gymraeg. Seilir y gyfrol ar drafodaeth awdurdodol ar natur cenedlaetholdeb a syniadau cenedlaetholgar, trafodaeth sy’n ein galluogi i ddeall datblygiad syniadaethol Plaid Cymru oddi mewn i gyddestun hanesyddol a rhyngwladol ehangach. Dyma lyfr sy’n bwrw goleuni newydd, dadlennol a dadleuol ar Blaid Cymru.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57490231853429,"sku":"9781837723843","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781837723843.jpg?v=1791212900"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-richard-wyn-jones.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}