Acts of Defiance
Published on 28. July 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-14-016641-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is the personal and political memoir of the Labour MP on his journey from the slums during the Depression, to Westminster, where he became afflicted with total deafness at the point in his career when he had been tipped for a ministerial post. For the last 20 years Ashley has fought imaginative and tireless battles to bring disability and the rights of the underprivileged firmly onto the parliamentary agenda.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
35 b&w photographs, index
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
263 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-016641-5 (9780140166415)
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Content
Childhood in Widnes; Off to Work; Shop Steward; Town Councillor; Oxford and Cambridge; Labouring - and the Lost Election; BBC Radio and Television Producer; Entering Parliament; The Silence Falls; Resignation?; Would It Work?; Thalidomide; Campaigning for Women: Battered Wives and Rape; Labour Government Backbencher 1974-9; Vaccine-Damaged Children; Opposition Backbencher - the 1980s; Fighting the Forces; Disability; Deaf World; Looking Back.