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Vernon Bogdanor: Aneurin Bevan and the Socialist Ideal

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Gresham College

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Partner:: Gresham College
Location:: Museum of London
London, England
Event Date:: 10.16.12
Speaker:: Professor Vernon Bogdanor
Tags:: NHS; socialism; social issue; British Socialism; british politics; British Government; political; political history; British History

Summary: Aneurin Bevan was the leading postwar representative in Britain of the socialist ideal. He is best remembered for the creation of the National Health Service which he regarded as a symbol of applied socialism, a national service free at the point of use and available to all. But, even before he resigned from the postwar Labour government in 1951, this ideal was being eroded. Were his hopes doomed to disappointment?
For transcript and download versions of this lecture, please visit the event's page on the Gresham College website: Aneurin Bevan and the Socialist Ideal.

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Professor Vernon Bogdanor

Vernon Bogdanor CBE is Emeritus Gresham Professor of Law, current Visiting Gresham Professor of Political History, Research Professor at King's College London, a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Prior to 2010, Professor Bogdanor Fellow of Brasenose College, is Professor of Government at Oxford University.

He has been an adviser to a number of governments, including those of the Czech Republic,

Hungary, Kosovo,

Israel

and

Slovakia. His books include The People and the Party System, Multi-Party Politics and the Constitution, Power and the People, and Devolution in the

United Kingdom. He is a frequent contributor to TV, radio and the press and is a sometime special advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities (1982-83), and the House of Commons Public Service Committee. Most recently he was awarded the Sir Isiaiah Berlin prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies by the Political Studies Association.