Biography of the miner's son and Labour politician who created the British National Health Service
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'Clare and Francis Beckett have written a short, thoroughly readable and affordable introduction to Bevan's life and politics.' -- Keith Flett Socialist Review 200508
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Francis Beckett is a writer, journalist and contemporary historian. His numerous books include biographies of three other Prime Ministers - Attlee, Macmillan and Blair. Lectures in social policy at the university of Bradford, where she is the director of Postgraduate Gender Studies.
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Eight children living with both parents in a small, four-room terraced house did not qualify as poverty in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, when Aneurin (or Nye) Bevan was born there on 15 November 1897. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Labour Party, Ernest Bevin, House of Commons, Michael Foot, Herbert Morrison, Beveridge Report, Aneurin Bevan, Clement Attlee, National Health Service, Socialist League, United States, Welfare State, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Harold Wilson, Jennie Lee, South Wales, National Government, Anthony Eden, Barbara Castle, Hugh Gaitskell, Hugh Dalton, Stanley Baldwin, Winston Churchill, First World War, General Strike New!
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Eight children living with both parents in a small, four-room terraced house did not qualify as poverty in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, when Aneurin (or Nye) Bevan was born there on 15 November 1897. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
prescription charges, central funding Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Labour Party, Ernest Bevin, House of Commons, Michael Foot, Herbert Morrison, Beveridge Report, Aneurin Bevan, Clement Attlee, National Health Service, Socialist League, United States, Welfare State, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Harold Wilson, Jennie Lee, South Wales, National Government, Anthony Eden, Barbara Castle, Hugh Gaitskell, Hugh Dalton, Stanley Baldwin, Winston Churchill, First World War, General Strike New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Labour Party: A Centenary History by Brian Brivati on 11 pages
- In Place of Fear by Aneurin Bevan on 8 pages
- Aneurin Bevan: 1897-1960 by Michael Foot on 6 pages
- Hugh Gaitskill by Brian Brivati on page 145, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao Tse-Tung, Gandhi and Others (Dover Thrift Editions) by Robert Blaisdell on page 5, and page 6
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