This article is about the particular significance of the year 1949 to Wales and its people.

1949
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Timeline of Welsh history
1949 in
The United Kingdom
Scotland
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Events

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Arts and literature

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Awards

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  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Dolgellau)

New books

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English language

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Welsh language

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Music

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Film

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Broadcasting

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  • January - Glyn Griffiths writes: "It would be advisable now for Wales to weigh in with its campaign of aggravation and persuasion to get a Welsh Radio Corporation."[24]

Sport

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Births

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Deaths

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References

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  2. ^ National Library of Wales (1947). Annual Report - National Library of Wales. p. 16.
  3. ^ Corfe, Robert (2009). Land of the Olympians: papers from the enlightened far north. Bury St. Edmunds: Arena. p. 95. ISBN 9781906791179.
  4. ^ Great Britain. Council for Wales and Monmouthshire (1950). A Memorandum by the Council on Its Activities. H.M. Stationery Office.
  5. ^ Jonny Muir (15 January 2014). The UK's County Tops: Reaching the top of 91 historic counties. Cicerone Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-1-84965-963-5.
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  7. ^ "Cwmbran Regeneration". Torfaen County Borough Council. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  8. ^ "Key - Gwyn Nicholls Memorial Gates 1949". Cardiff Rugby Museum. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  9. ^ Tony Russell (15 March 2015). The Finest Gardens in Wales. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-4456-4137-9.
  10. ^ Lawrence Goldman (7 March 2013). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008. OUP Oxford. p. 355. ISBN 978-0-19-967154-0.
  11. ^ "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 17 November 2019.
  12. ^ "Winners of the Crown". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 17 November 2019.
  13. ^ "Winners of the Prose Medal". National Eisteddfod of Wales. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  14. ^ Dannie Abse (1949). After Every Green Thing. Hutchinson.
  15. ^ John Graham Jones. "Mardy-Jones, Thomas Isaac (1879-1970), economist and politician". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  16. ^ Kenneth Blackwell; Harry Ruja; Sheila Turcon (2 September 2003). A Bibliography of Bertrand Russell: I. Separate Publications II. Serial Publications III. Indexes. Routledge. p. 188. ISBN 978-1-134-81890-7.
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  18. ^ William Llewelyn Davies. "DAVIES, RICHARD ('Isgarn'; 1887-1947), farmer-shepherd and poet". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  19. ^ Llyfr y Salmau: Cyfieithiad Cymraeg o'r Llyfr Cyntaf, sef Salmau I-XLI, gyda nodiadau ar y testun Hebraeg. Gwasg John Penry. 1967. p. 117.
  20. ^ Kate Roberts (1949). Stryd y glep: Stori hir fer ar ffurf dyddiadur. Digwydd stori yn un o'r blynyddoedd yn union o flaen rhyfel 1939-45. Gwasg Gee.
  21. ^ Meic Stephens (23 September 1998). The new companion to the literature of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 719. ISBN 978-0-7083-1383-1.
  22. ^ Simon Callow (3 August 2012). "Ivor Novello, master of the musical". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  23. ^ "Blue Scar (1949)". Screenonline. British Film Institute. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  24. ^ Asa Briggs (1995). The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume IV: Sound and Vision. OUP Oxford. pp. 106–. ISBN 978-0-19-212967-3.
  25. ^ Dai Smith; Gareth Williams (1 January 1980). Fields of Praise: The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union, 1881-1981. University of Wales Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-7083-0766-3.
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  27. ^ John Toshack (12 November 2018). Toshack's Way: My Journey Through Football. deCoubertin Books. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-909245-71-6.
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  31. ^ Peter Jackson (6 October 2011). Triumph and Tragedy: Welsh Sporting Legends. Mainstream Publishing. p. 61. ISBN 978-1-78057-174-4.
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  41. ^ William Llewelyn Davies. "Chappell, Edgar Leyshon (1879-1949), sociologist, a pioneer of town and village redevelopment, and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  42. ^ John Ellis Meredith. "Davies, George Maitland Lloyd (1880-1949), Calvinistic Methodist minister and apostle of peace". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 September 2019.