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Nye & Jennie

The Studio, Edinburgh

Aneurin Bevan and Jennie Lee were comrades and flatmates who together fought and preached for socialism as they saw it; he the Tredegar firebrand on the Labour backbenches, she the miner’s daughter from Fife who became a Socialist MP before she was old enough to vote. Read more …

Then they were married; he deeply in love with her; she on the rebound from a tragic love affair. Both of them were loved and loathed by their fellow MP’s; he the Bollinger Bolshevik; she his Lady Macbeth, the dark angel at his shoulder. Life together unfolded through the desolate war years, the trials of founding the NHS, and the vicious internal feuds of the 1950s. But as it did so their love deepened and matured.

This is the story of a partnership that became one of the outstanding political marriages of the twentieth century.


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Features about Nye & Jennie

Meredydd Barker--Nye and Jennie

Neil Cooper, Coffee-Table Notes, 31/10/2018

Where and when?

The Studio, Edinburgh from Friday November 2, 2018, until Saturday November 3, 2018.

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