SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
The worlds of TE Nicholas
Robert Griffiths delivered the annual TE Nicholas Memorial Lecture at this year's National Eisteddfod in Cardiff. This is an edited version of his speech
TE Nicholas, 'Niclas y Glais'
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THOMAS EVAN NICHOLAS (“Niclas y Glais”) was born in 1879 into an age in which imperialism was spreading across much of the world, led by British monopoly capital but with US and German capital increasingly demanding their place in the sun.
The British raj was approaching its peak, while the British subjugation of Africa was on the verge of completion.
Nicholas began his life in Crymych, north Pembrokeshire, north-west of the south Wales coalfield which by then largely powered the British imperial navy.
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