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Life of a miners’ leader, socialist, anti-imperialist and perpetually rebellious Labour MP
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SO Davies
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Reddest of the Reds: SO Davies, MP and Miners’ Leader
by Robert Griffiths (Manifesto Press, £19.50)
IT IS likely that, outside Wales, most people in the rest of Britain will not have heard of SO Davies.
This fact marks yet another lacuna in our knowledge of British labour history.
Rob Griffiths’s biography of Davies (or “SO” as he was universally known), rectifies this and provides us with a meticulously researched account of the life and times of an important labour movement leader.
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