The Blue Book education reports are published. Maligning Welsh education, religion, culture, literature, motherhood, and the Welsh language, the reports contributed to a union between Nonconformity and Welsh nationalism.

Image: An excerpt from the Blue Book on "The Welsh Language." This image is part of the public domain in the United States. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Blue_Books_prt_2%2C_no.9%2C_p.66_-_Evils_of_the_Welsh_Language.gif

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Matthew Jones, “On Nineteenth-Century Welsh Literacies, and the ‘Blue Book’ Education Reports of 1847”