Bevan (Life & Times)

by Francis Beckett

Ian Pindar (Editor)

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Aneurin Nye Bevan (1897-1960) was the man who created the National Health Service, the crowning achievement of post-secon-world-war Labour government. The son of a miner from Monmouthshire, Wales, he became a local trade union leader at only 19, and won a scholarship to the Central Labour College in London. In 1929, he was elected a Labour MP. Bevan believed that the war was Britain's opportunity to create a new society, a position he maintained throughout the war. When the war ended, in 1945, the landslide Labour victory gave him the chance to help create it.
  • ISBN10 190434142X
  • ISBN13 9781904341420
  • Publish Date September 2004 (first published 20 September 2004)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Haus Publishing
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 192
  • Language English