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Aneurin Bevan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Aneurin Bevan Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960), Labour minister of health and housing between 1945...to make Britain an independent democratic socialist nation. Aneurin Bevan, born in 1897 in Tredegar, Wales, grew up steeped in the traditions...
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Bevan, Aneurin
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Bevan, Aneurin (1897–1960). Perhaps...controversial of Labour Party politicians, Bevan was born in Tredegar, a miner's son in...the Tribune newspaper. But they also found Bevan difficult, especially after he denounced...
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Michael Foot
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...and met, for the first time, Aneurin Bevan, whose close friend, coworker, and biographer...stints with the New Statesman and Tribune, Bevan was instrumental in finding him a job on...when in 1957 his political hero Aneurin Bevan abruptly announced that Britain must maintain...
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Gaitskell, Hugh
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...charges prompted the resignations of Aneurin Bevan , Harold Wilson , and John Freeman. In Bevan's case thwarted ambition probably played its...surprise of many, Gaitskell easily defeated Bevan and Herbert Morrison for the succession. His...
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Hugh Gaitskell
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Party with a decisive victory over Herbert Morrison and Aneurin Bevan, a leader of the party's more radical wing. Gaitskell steered...a resolution was carried by the more radical faction led by Bevan endorsing unilateral nuclear disarmament. Gaitskell, a strong...
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Wilson, Harold, 1st Baron Wilson
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...the Board of Trade, aged only 31. He resigned from the government in 1951 along with Aneurin Bevan , but was careful to distance himself from Bevan by insisting that his specific quarrel was over excessive expenditure on rearmament. His action...
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National Health Service
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...arising from self-interested opposition was broken by Aneurin Bevan , who established a tripartite administration: local authorities...prescriptions, dental, and ophthalmic treatment (1951) led to Bevan's resignation on grounds of principle. Accusations of extravagance...
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Richard II
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...and the excellent work of Arthur Bryant, The Atlantic Saga, vol. 2: The Age of Chivalry (1964). Additional Sources Bevan, Bryan, King Richard II, London: Rubicon Press, 1990. Matthews, John, Warriors of Christendom: Charlemagne, El Cid...
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James Harold Wilson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...in 1946. This change of policy caused two resignations from the government. The first came from Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan, who had designed the plan with the express intention that it offer free service. The second was from Wilson, whose gesture...
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viscose process
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Most of the rayon manufactured today is produced by this method, al though other processes are also in use. The viscose process was discovered in 1892 by the English chemist Charles Frederick Cross and his collaborator, Edward John Bevan.
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