Dr Mike Benbough-Jackson is a senior lecturer in History at Liverpool John Moores University. He has published Cardiganshire and the Cardi: Locating a place and its people, c.1760-2000 (University of Wales Press, 2011); Merseyside: culture and place (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011) (edited with Prof Sam Davies); and, Cardiganshire: a concise history (University of Wales Press, 2007). This blog is part of a project about the history of St David’s Day in modern times. Recently, Mike has examined recent celebrations in Cardiff: ‘A nation on the march’, Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, 209 (2012), 47–56.