Morgan Jones - Man of Conscience — Man of Conscience

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Dyma'r cofiant cyntaf i wleidydd nodedig. Cafodd Morgan Jones ei garcharu yn Wormwood Scrubs am ei ddaliadau heddychol yn ystod y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf, ac ef oedd y gwrthwynebydd cydwybodol cyntaf i'w ethol yn Aelod Seneddol pan enillodd is-etholiad Caerffili yn enw'r Blaid Lafur yn 1921.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Morgan Jones - Man of Conscience , is the first biography of a remarkable politician who was imprisoned in Wormwood Scrubs for his pacifist beliefs during the First World War, but who made history by becoming the first conscientious objector to be elected an MP when he won the Caerphilly by-election for Labour in 1921.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

Introduction by Wayne David Foreword by Hilary Benn MP Glossary 1. The Early Years 2. Opposition to the First World War 3. The Caerphilly by-election of 1921 4. MP and Education Minister 5. Westminster and Wales 6. The Internationalist 7. The West Indies and the Last Year Epilogue Index Select Bibliography

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Wayne David has been the Labour MP for Caerphilly since 2001. He has been a Wales Office Minister and a government Whip, and is currently a Shadow Minister for Defence. Prior to elected politics, he was a lecturer with the WEA.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

'Morgan Jones was a significant Labour figure, from his 1921 Caerphilly by-election victory as a conscientious objector to his service as an education minister in the first two Labour Governments. Wayne David deserves great credit for bringing Morgan Jones to life in this well-researched and very readable book.' Nick Thomas-Symonds MP 'Wayne David writes of one of his predecessors as Labour MP for Caerphilly with the understanding of the political insider and the contextual knowledge of the historian. He places Morgan Jones at the heart of the maelstrom which was the south Wales coalfield in the first half of the last century, and with lucidity and empathy, he creates a life-story narrative which neglects neither the personal dilemmas nor the lasting social and political achievements of his fascinating subject.' Professor Dai Smith 'Jones was a man of principle and pragmatism whose story in many ways reflects the journey of the Labour Party during its life thus far ... As our movement’s history, and Morgan Jones’ extraordinary life teach us, it is when we combine the two that we are able to change the world.' Hilary Benn MP, from his Foreword Published on the 80th anniversary of his death in 1939, aged only 53, Wayne David’s Morgan Jones - Man of Conscience for the first time reveals the full story of Jones’ political journey from Rhymney Valley radical to parliamentary pragmatist who, after witnessing the rise of fascism in Europe and the horrors of the Spanish Civil War, finally rejected pacifism in favour of military action to defend democracy from the evils of Nazism.