The Devolution Generation - a lecture
The Devolution Generation - the birth and bedding in of the Senedd Centre of Welsh Politics and Society's and WISERD's 2025 Annual Lecture November 27th - Main Hall, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University Diolch am y croeso, ac y cyfle i dod nol. I don’t come back to Aber very often, so when I do I get the strange sensation of both continuity and change. The prom, the grind of Penglais Hill, and the smell of the books in the Huw Owen Library, are just the same as I remember them. They are fixed points. They have barely changed. What has changed in 30 years is the context. 30 years ago this just wouldn’t be happening. There were no annual lectures on Welsh politics, there were no conversations about Welsh politics. In fact, in the mid 90’s, whilst there was undoubtedly plenty of politics in Wales, there was not what we can properly describe as ‘Welsh politics’. What we had instead was neatly captured by the title of the HTV Wales weekly political program...