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Podcast: Hiraeth - Welsh Politics
Episode: Christianity and Welsh Politics
Description: We've touched on the subject of religion in politics before but we thought we would round out 2024 specifically looking at the role of Christianity in Welsh politics. In some ways it could be argued that Welsh politics only really exists thanks to Welsh nonconformist campaigning that led to the first Wales-only legislation since the 1500s with the Sunday Closing (Wales) Act 1881, followed by the disestablishment of the Church of England in 1920.
In much more recent times we have the famous referendums on keeping Sundays wet/dry, we have the national and union parliament votes on assisted dying, and we have...