Welsh was actively discouraged in schools by means including the hated Welsh Not. The mid-19th century was a turbulent period ...

The Welsh Books Council and publishers said funding ... cuts - 0.5% this year and a further 1.5% next year. The Welsh Local Government Association leader Debbie Wilcox responded by saying councils ...

The report eventually became known as the Treachery of the Blue Books ... of the Welsh Not in Carmarthen, Cardigan and Meirionnydd before 1870, but it was never official government policy.