| Evidence: | '[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesaurus... When he chaired the Tredegar Library Committee, ?60 of its ?300 acquisitions budget was delegated to a colliery repairman to buy philosophy books. Bevan could quote Nietzsche, discuss F.H. Bradley's "Appearance and Reality", and deeply impress an Oxford tutor with his crique of Kant's "Categorical Imperative"... Bevan was... deeply influenced by "The Theory of the Leisure Class".' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | Wales | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Tredegar other location: Workmen's Institute Library |
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| Reader: | Aneurin (Nye) Bevan |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 15 Nov 1897 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | later Labour politician |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | Wales |
| Country of experience: | Wales |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | F.H. Bradley |
| Title: | Appearance and Reality |
| Genre: | Philosophy |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | read in situ read at Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library |
| Record ID: | 5967 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Jonathan Rose | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven | |
| Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 423 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 423, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5967, accessed: 03 December 2023 | |
| See Smith, 'Bevan and South Wales', pp.178-94; Foot, 'Bevan', various page refs. |
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