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Aneurin Bevan
Standard Name: Bevan, Aneurin
Used Form: Nye Bevan
Connections
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Forster | This examines the lives of Mary Livingstone (mid-Victorian daughter of a missionary in Africa, who married the more famous missionary David Livingstone
, a colleague and protégé of her father), Fanny Stevenson (late Victorian... |
Textual Production | Sue Townsend | ST
published True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts
and Susan Lilian Townsend (in the same year as her overtly political Mr. Bevan
's Dream). |
Textual Production | Sue Townsend | In Mr. [Aneurin] Bevan
's Dream: Why Britain Needs Its Welfare State, ST
wrote and published an impassioned defence of the welfare state. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
politics | Nina Bawden | Inspired by hearing Aneurin Bevan
speak when she was a young evacuee in Wales, Watts, Janet. “Nina Bawden Obituary”. The Guardian. |
politics | Muriel Box | During the late 1950s and early 1960s MB
became involved with several political causes. She joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(CND), and was arrested and roughed up by the police on a demonstration of... |
politics | Margaret Forster | Politics entered the young MF
's life with the General Election of October 1951. She ascertained that her mother was a Conservative (just as she was a great supporter of the royal family) because Conservatives... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | |
Occupation | George Orwell | For about eighteen months from November 1943 he was literary editor of Aneurin Bevan
's left-wing journal Tribune, to which he also contributed a weekly column. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amabel Williams-Ellis | This work was shaped by her observations at Independent Labour Party
summer schools; she incorporates portraits of her then-colleagues the future Fascist Oswald Mosley
and Labour leader Aneurin Bevan
. The novel is concerned with... |
Friends, Associates | Muriel Box | After they moved to Mill Hill, the Boxes became good friends of the Labour
politicians Aneurin Bevan
and Jennie Lee
, through the fact that the two husbands shared the same physiotherapist. They were... |
Friends, Associates | Naomi Mitchison | Her Labour Party activism brought NM
various somewhat unlikely friends, such as Stafford Cripps
, Aneurin Bevan
, and Jennie Lee
. Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz. 204-5 |
Timeline
July 1928: Jennie Lee, a Scottish coalminer's daughter,...
National or international item
July 1928
Jennie Lee
, a Scottish coalminer's daughter, was selected as Labour
candidate for the constituency of Lanarkshire; she was elected to the House of Commons
as its youngest member in a by-election in February...
24 February 1934: The National Council for Civil Liberties...
National or international item
24 February 1934
The National Council for Civil Liberties
was founded by journalist Ronald Kidd
, who had witnessed the treatment of hunger marchers in London in November 1932.
February 1936: The awesome trio of political theorist Harold...
Writing climate item
February 1936
The awesome trio of political theorist Harold Laski
, publisher Victor Gollancz
, and writer and Labour MP John Strachey
established the Left Book Club (LBC)
.
Laity, Paul. “The left’s ace of clubs”. Guardian Unlimited.
26 October 1951: At the general election the postwar reforming...
National or international item
26 October 1951
At the general election the postwar reforming Labour government of Clement Attlee
polled the highest number of votes it had ever received, but fewer seats than before: it was ousted by the Conservatives under Winston Churchill
3 November 1956: Prime Minister Anthony Eden made one of a...
National or international item
3 November 1956
Prime Minister Anthony Eden
made one of a series of ministerial broadcasts on the recent Suez crisis, which was covered by BBC
television and ITV
as well as the BBC
radio service at home and...
4 October 1957: At the Labour Party conference at Brighton...
National or international item
4 October 1957
At the Labour Party
conference at Brighton Aneurin Bevan
revealed that the party's executive committee was against the policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament.
Texts
Bevan, Aneurin, and Tam Dalyell. Weapons for squalid and trivial ends. Guardian News and Media, 2007.