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English History, 1914-1945 (Oxford, 1965). David Melding's Have we been Anti-Welsh?: an essay on the Conservative Party and the Welsh nation (Barry, 2005) provided me with a lot of useful material in what he describes as a polemic, and in my paper I have drawn attention to some points of disagreement. Among Conservative politicians whose biographies, histories and lectures have been a source of material are R. A. Butler, Ian Gilmour, Geoffrey Howe, John Major, John Redwood, Wyn Roberts and Peter Walker. David Hunt saw an early draft of this lecture and has given useful advice. G. F. Dudley and J. J. Richardson's Politics and Steel in Britain, 1967-1988 (Aldershot, 1990) provided invaluable information about events that had a huge impact on Wales. Among other sources have been Conservative Party publications, my own political papers, and Hansard. I have also read a good many commentaries (some hostile) contained in newspapers, and in the publications of trades unions and other political parties, or on the web. I am indebted to everyone whose earlier labours have prepared the ground for me.