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Ref NoSWCC/AUD/338
Title<title linktype="simple">Labour Party Leaders Study</title>
Interview of Lush, Archie (Sir)
First South Wales Coalfield Project 1972-74
Description<list><item><genreform type="record type"><emph altrender="a">audiotape</emph></genreform></item></list>
<p>Recorded memoirs of Sir Archie Lush, Abergavenny. Includes a discussion of Evan Davies and his political relationship with Aneurin Bevan; his involvement in the Communist Party, and education at Oxford University; his career and army service; Government reaction to hunger marches; inquiry by Carnegie Trust, and his research into the effect of unemployment in 1930&apos;s South Wales; Tredegar Institute Library and their process of selecting books; Carnegie libraries in the area; and the impact of Aneurin Bevan&apos;s resignation</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Lush</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Archie [Sir] &amp; Davies</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Teachers &amp; Institute, Chairman (Tredegar)</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Labour Party &amp; South Wales Miners Federation &amp; Query Club (Tredegar) &amp; Workers Freedom Group (Tredegar) &amp; Communist Party &amp; National Council of Labour Colleges &amp; Workers Educational Association &amp; International Brigade &amp; Carnegie Trust &amp; Publication - The Young Adult &amp; Tredegar Institute &amp; Tredegar Workmens Library Book Committee</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Tredegar</emph><emph altrender="county">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Oxford Universtiy</emph><emph altrender="county">Oxford</emph><emph altrender="parish">Oxfordshire</emph><emph altrender="township">England</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Tredegar Welfare Hall</emph><emph altrender="county">Tredegar</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Tredegar Institute Library</emph><emph altrender="county">Tredegar</emph><emph altrender="parish">Gwent</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Spanish Civil War 1936-39</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">March, Hunger</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">communism </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">adult education </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">army </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">conscientious objectors </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">marches </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">unemployment </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">billiards </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">cinemas </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">elections </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">Spanish Civil War </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">depression </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list>
Date1910 = 1973 (c)
11.5.1973
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 : 2
LanguageEnglish
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