Until now the standard work on Bevin has been Alan Bullock’s massive three-volume biography, which will remain an important source for scholars of Bevin and the age in which he lived. Andrew Adonis, ...

Bevin was an immodest man with much to be immodest about. After leaving school at the age of 11, he became a farm labourer before joining his older brothers in Bristol, where he worked as a drayman.

Ernest Bevin is the forgotten giant of British politics, doomed to be forever overshadowed by his near namesake Nye Bevan, whose place in posterity is assured by his pivotal role in the creation ...

Bevin’s mother, Mercy, whose photograph he kept all his life on his desk, was single, and died when he was eight. He left school at the age of 11 and became a farm labourer, which he called “a ...