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Nye : the political life of Aneurin Bevan / Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds ; foreword by Neil Kinnock.
LIBRA DA585.B38 T46 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas-Symonds, Nicklaus, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bevan, Aneurin, 1897-1960.
- Bevan, Aneurin.
- Politicians--Wales--Biography.
- Politicians.
- National health services--Great Britain--History.
- National health services.
- Socialists--Wales--Biography.
- Socialists.
- History.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1936-1945.
- Great Britain.
- Politics and government.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1945-1964.
- Wales.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 316 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Distribution:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : I.B. Tauris, 2015.
- Contents:
- Part I Boy to Man, 1897-1919
- 1 The Welsh Valleys Childhood, 1897-1911 15
- 2 The South Wales Coalfield, 1911-19 21
- Part II The Making of Aneurin Bevan, 1919-34
- 3 Local Politics, 1919-28 31
- 4 Monmouthshire County Council and Parliament, 1928-34 52
- Part III Establishing Himself on the National Stage, 1934-45
- 5 London and Jennie Lee 71
- 6 Working-class Unity, 1935-9 82
- 7 The Second World War, Part I: 1939-42 93
- 8 The Second World War, Part II; 1943-5 112
- Part IV Cabinet Minister, 1945-51
- 9 The Labour Governments, 1945-51 123
- 10 The Creation of the National Health Service 133
- 11 Bevan's Record on Housing, 1945-51 151
- 12 Bevan as a Cabinet Minister 162
- 13 Principles and Personalities 177
- 14 Resignation 191
- Part V In Opposition, 1951-60
- 15 The Bevanites, 1951-5 205
- 16 The Pragmatic Bevan, 1955-7 222
- 17 The Final Years, 1958-60 238.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-301) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781780762098
- 1780762097
- OCLC:
- 895271610
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