A selection of newspaper articles, commissioned blogs and other bits and pieces that I have written for other people and places.
Politics
- Brexit has galvanized Welsh independence (UnHerd)
- Can Wales harness football nationalism? (UnHerd)
- Education, the decline of Welsh and why communities matter more than classrooms (Nation.Cymru)
- Why Wales needs to talk about independence (Western Mail)
- The deep roots of Wales’ Brexit (Nation.Cymru)
- Aberfan: A Welsh Tragedy (The Independent)
- Wales and Thatcherism (Western Mail)
- Post-war Political Heroes (Western Mail)
- Referendums in Welsh History (Western Mail)
- Obituary: Mrs Thatcher & Wales (BBC website)
- The Scottish referendum and Wales (Western Mail)
- Referendums in Welsh history (Western Mail & Daily Post)
- Gwynfor Evans 1966 (BBC website)
Popular culture
- Wales want to beat England to qualify, not to prove a point. But a victory will soften injustices of old (The Observer)
- Why rugby matters to the Welsh (Western Mail)
- Football ticket prices: some lessons from history (History & Policy)
- Sport’s eligibility rules need a rethink to allow migrants to play (The Conversation)
- Wales and the Sixties (Western Mail)
- Welsh Rugby Heroes (Western Mail)
- The Alarm (WalesHome)
- England v Wales: More than a Game (The Conversation)
- Poppies, football and remembering (History Matters)
- Moments of happiness matter: Wales at Euro 2016 (BBC website)
- Wales’ contribution to 1980s pop (Western Mail)
- Richard Burton’s 1984 (Wales Arts Review)
- A short history of boredom (Wales Arts Review)
History / identity
- God Bless the Prince of Wales [1969 investiture] (BBC Radio 4)
- The Aberfan disaster is just one facet of the Welsh coal tragedy (The Conversation)
- A brief history of Wales, the resilient nation (History Extra)
- Welshness, Welsh soldier and the Second World War (conference paper)
- Wales – in search of a history (BBC History Magazine)
- What are academic historians for? (WalesHome)
- Tragedy in Welsh history (Western Mail)
- Emotions in history (Western Mail)
- Technology in history (Western Mail)
- War in history (Western Mail)
- Landscape in history (Western Mail)
- Daily Life During World War II (BBC Wales)
- Evacuation and Wales in World War II (BBC Wales)
- Bombing raids in Wales (BBC Wales)
- Women in World War II (BBC Wales)
- The coal industry in World War II (BBC Wales)
- Welsh identity during the Second World War (BBC Wales)
- Swansea’s Blitz (Click on Wales)
- The role of schools in promoting Welsh citizenship (Click on Wales)
- Can Welsh history be separated from British history, or are they too intertwined? (History Today)
- England and Wales: best of enemies? (BBC History Magazine)
- The Pub Historian (BBC podcast series)
- The M4 in south Wales (Western Mail)
History in practice
- Writing Wales since 1939 (History & Policy)
- Writing Welsh history (WalesHome)
- How to write a History book (BBC Radio 3)
Christmas
- Santa Claus’s Coming to Britain (British Library)
- Christmas and Four Nations History (Four Nations blog)
- A Christmas Carol: A Tale for all Times (Journal of Victorian Culture blog)
- Is there a Welsh Christmas? (BBC website)
Podcast interviews
- The Rest is History. A discussion of the history of Wales. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2fcNwwlIa1PrdRdRIneJuS
- Beti a’i Phobol (Radio Cymru programme with Martin Johnes discussing his life) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d0n0
- Hiraeth (Welsh politics podcast). Panel discussion featuring MJ on cultural/political significance of football https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/hiraeth-welsh/wales-independent-football-Uv7aAJhow9x/
- Panel discussion featuring MJ on education policy https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/hiraeth-welsh/senedd21-policy-challenge-F69hnuBYbV2/
- What Next for Wales podcast. Interview with MJ about Wales past and present https://soundcloud.com/whatnextforwales/episode-1-martin-johnes
- What can the census tell us about the history of the Welsh language? Online lecture for Findmypast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDFRxpIAS5k&t=18s
- Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about modern Welsh history. Interview for BBC History Extra podcast. https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/modern-welsh-history-everything-you-wanted-know-podcast-martin-johnes/
- Christmas Television. Panel discussion first broadcast on Thinking Allowed (BBC Radio 4) https://open.spotify.com/episode/0DckeySPsnPDe9axoy377E?si=nWMxHDV7SHO12OdDujrUaA&dl_branch=1
- You Ain’t Got a Clue podcast. Interview about why history matters. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7vIGIiQytxLBTGQBgO5F47?si=__WfYFF5QtGlxil58dgjcA&dl_branch=1
- Desolation Wales. Interview about Wales since 1939. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2z1WULId7Tep1shlcqjLzO?si=pQ-F36LmRhS5D1pPV6qZLA&dl_branch=1
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