Kenneth O. Morgan
My Histories
Will be published approx. on 11. August 2015
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-78316-323-6 (ISBN)
Description
This is the story of the life, professional achievements and personal background, challenges and achievements of Wales's leading historian. During his long career, Kenneth O. Morgan has been a prolific writer and, through his pioneering work, has become a leading authority on Welsh History, British History and Labour History. This autobiography also details Morgan's often entertaining and unconventional personal experiences, and the eminent people he has met along the way - from his work in television, radio and the press as election commentator and book reviewer, to his involvement in the Labour Party from the late 1950s onwards and the close relations he developed with such Labour leaders as James Callaghan, Michael Foot, Douglas Jay and Neil Kinnock. In addition to being a respected author, Morgan has held the position of University Vice-Chancellor in Wales, is an active Labour peer, and continues to lecture at universities around the world - all achieved while juggling his life as a husband and father.
In this revealing memoir, published in the year of his eightieth birthday, Morgan reflects on marriage and bereavement, on re-marriage, parenthood, friendship, religion and morality, his reactions to the historical changes he has witnessed, from attending a village school in rural Wales and wartime air-raids, through school in Hampstead and study in Oxford University and in Wales, down to entry into the House of Lords. Despite past traumas, this memoir still conveys invigoratingly a senior scholar's idealism, abiding sense of optimism and belief in progress.
Contents.
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Chapter 1 A Divided Consciousness
Chapter 2 Education, Education, Education
Chapter 3 History-Making: A Welsh Historian
Chapter 4 History-Making: A British Historian
Chapter 5 History-Making; A Labour Historian
Chapter 6 History-Making: A Contemporary Historian
Chapter 7: History-Making: A Biographer
Chapter 8: Experiences: The House of Lords
Chapter 9: Experiences: Travelling
Chapter 10: Experiences: Old and New Labour
Chapter 11 My History
In this revealing memoir, published in the year of his eightieth birthday, Morgan reflects on marriage and bereavement, on re-marriage, parenthood, friendship, religion and morality, his reactions to the historical changes he has witnessed, from attending a village school in rural Wales and wartime air-raids, through school in Hampstead and study in Oxford University and in Wales, down to entry into the House of Lords. Despite past traumas, this memoir still conveys invigoratingly a senior scholar's idealism, abiding sense of optimism and belief in progress.
Contents.
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Chapter 1 A Divided Consciousness
Chapter 2 Education, Education, Education
Chapter 3 History-Making: A Welsh Historian
Chapter 4 History-Making: A British Historian
Chapter 5 History-Making; A Labour Historian
Chapter 6 History-Making: A Contemporary Historian
Chapter 7: History-Making: A Biographer
Chapter 8: Experiences: The House of Lords
Chapter 9: Experiences: Travelling
Chapter 10: Experiences: Old and New Labour
Chapter 11 My History
Reviews / Votes
Kenneth O. Morgan has had a rich and multifaceted life, ranging from Oxford don to Labour peer. His captivating autobiography recounts a lifelong commitment to his Welsh heritage; his marriage to his beloved wife Jane; his commitment to Oxford as a teaching Fellow at The Queens College; his Vice-Chancellorship of the University of Wales; and above all his life as an historian and biographer. My Histories brings his life to the present, with his recent marriage to Elizabeth Gibson of Bordeaux; his work in the House of Lords as the indefatigable Lord Morgan; and his current reflections on whether devolution will give Wales a new sense of inspired destiny. --Wm. Roger Louis, University of Texas at Austin"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Wales
United Kingdom
Illustrations
49 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78316-323-6 (9781783163236)
DOI
10.1234/b10227
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Additional editions
E-Book
09/2015
1st Edition
University of Wales Press
€8.49
Available for download
E-Book
09/2015
1st Edition
University of Wales Press
€8.49
Available for download
Person
Historians, Politicians and Students
Content
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Chapter 1 A Divided Consciousness
Chapter 2 Education, Education, Education
Chapter 3 History-Making: A Welsh Historian
Chapter 4 History-Making: A British Historian
Chapter 5 History-Making; A Labour Historian
Chapter 6 History-Making: A Contemporary Historian
Chapter 7: History-Making: A Biographer
Chapter 8: Experiences: The House of Lords
Chapter 9: Experiences: Travelling
Chapter 10: Experiences: Old and New Labour
Chapter 11 My History
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Chapter 1 A Divided Consciousness
Chapter 2 Education, Education, Education
Chapter 3 History-Making: A Welsh Historian
Chapter 4 History-Making: A British Historian
Chapter 5 History-Making; A Labour Historian
Chapter 6 History-Making: A Contemporary Historian
Chapter 7: History-Making: A Biographer
Chapter 8: Experiences: The House of Lords
Chapter 9: Experiences: Travelling
Chapter 10: Experiences: Old and New Labour
Chapter 11 My History