Emanuel shinwell autobiography for kids

  • Bibliography.
  • Shinwell wrote three volumes of autobiography, Conflict Without Malice (1955), I've Lived Through it All (1973) and Lead With the Left (1981).
  • Labour politician who served in the British Parliament for over half a century, battling both Conservatives and his own party for socialist principles.

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    Manny Shinwell

    British politician

    The Right Honourable

    The Lord Shinwell

    CH PC

    Shinwell in the 1940s

    In office
    28 February 1950 – 26 October 1951
    Prime MinisterClement Attlee
    Preceded byA. V. Alexander
    Succeeded byWinston Churchill
    In office
    7 October 1947 – 28 February 1950
    Prime MinisterClement Attlee
    Preceded byFrederick Bellenger
    Succeeded byJohn Strachey
    In office
    3 August 1945 – 7 October 1947
    Prime MinisterClement Attlee
    Preceded byGwilym Lloyd George
    Succeeded byHugh Gaitskell
    In office
    5 June 1930 – 3 September 1931
    Prime MinisterRamsay MacDonald
    Preceded byBen Turner
    Succeeded byIsaac Foot
    In office
    23 January 1924 – 11 November 1924
    Prime MinisterRamsay MacDonald
    Preceded byGeorge Lane-Fox
    Succeeded byGeorge Lane-Fox
    In office
    11 June 1929 – 5 June 1930
    Prime MinisterRamsay MacDonald
    Pr
  • emanuel shinwell autobiography for kids

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    Primary Sources

    (1) Emanuel Shinwell wrote about his education in his autobiography, Conflict Without Malice (1955)

    When I was eleven years old my father moved to another part of Glasgow and I had to leave the Adelphi Terrace school. My father then employed me as an errand boy in his business, and my organized education was over. Many times I have referred to this when I have addressed meetings where the audience was on a somewhat high intellectual level and the subject of a commensurate standard. I have disclaimed any intellectual pretensions, on the grounds of leaving school at so early an age. I have spoken of my melancholy reflections because of this, and how I was only consoled when years afterwards I arrived at the House of Commons and there saw some of the products of the universities and high scholastic institutions.

    But how I regret those early years and the loss I sustained! It has been a long and costly struggle ever since: the lack of directi

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    WORK ID: NEFA 10905 (Master Record)

    		Description

    An edition of the Tyne Tees Television programme A World of My Own first broadcast on 3 January 1969 in which the Easington MP Emanuel ‘Manny’ Shinwell reflects on his 35 years career in politics as he prepares for retirement and travels around his County Durham constituency.   The documentary opens with a Manny Shinwell piece to camera in front of Easington Colliery pithead, County Durham, where he talks about his lack of formal education, his work amongst the dockers in Glasgow, the seamen...

    An edition of the Tyne Tees Television programme A World of My Own first broadcast on 3 January 1969 in which the Easington MP Emanuel ‘Manny’ Shinwell reflects on his 35 years career in politics as he prepares for retirement and travels around his County Durham constituency.   The documentary opens with a Manny Shinwell piece to camera in front of Easington Colliery pithead, County Durham, where he talks about his lack of formal educatio