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Musicians the Flying Pickets join a picket line at Drax Power Station, North Yorkshire, in 1984. Virgil Lucky (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Boys playing on an abandoned car, Newport, 1974. Robin Weaver/Alamy.

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A blend of fatalism and hope in 20th century Wales.

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