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What is Wales?
A Review of The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales

Simon Jenkins saluted the compendious The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales in The Guardian on Saturday March 29, 2008.

Simon states in his article:

"Something is stirring west of Offa’s Dyke. Welsh rugby players are winning, Welsh singers singing, Welsh politicians devolving, Welsh house prices soaring. And writers have stopped tearing out their hair in a paranoid rage over "What is Wales?" Besides, they now have a thundering 1,000-page answer, the Welsh Academy’s superb Encyclopaedia of Wales. If ever a country were encapsulated in a volume, this is it."

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