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Ref NoSWCC/AUD/276
Title<title linktype="simple">Radio Recordings</title>
Interview of Lush, Archie (Sir)
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Description<list><item><genreform type="record type"><emph altrender="a">audiotape</emph></genreform></item></list>
<p>Recorded memoirs of Sir Archie Lush, of his life in Tredegar. Includes the dominance of the Tredegar Coal Company in the community, and the establishment of a medical aid society. Also his experiences during World War I, later unemployment and socialist attitudes, and his relationship with Aneurin Bevan; influence of the institutes and libraries and attending Oxford University; political attitudes, and his knighthood. (Interviewed by Gerald Monte, for the BBC Overseas Regional Service)</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Lush</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Archie [Sir] &amp; Bevan</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Tredegar Iron and Coal Company &amp; Tredegar Medical Aid Society &amp; Query Club &amp; National Health Service &amp; Labour Party</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Tredegar</emph><emph altrender="county">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Tredegar Workmens Library</emph><emph altrender="county">Tredegar</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Oxford University</emph><emph altrender="county">Jesus College</emph><emph altrender="parish">Oxford</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">World War I 1914-18</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">coal owners </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">health </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">welfare </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">World War I </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">institutes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nationalisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">sickness </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list>
Date1900 = 1972 (c)
1972
Related Material<archref linktype="simple"><extref linktype="simple"><emph altrender="filename">WXYZ</emph><emph altrender="identity">loan copy : Miners Library</emph></extref></archref>
Physical Descriptiongood
Extentno of tapes : 1
LanguageEnglish
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