Welsh Schoolteachers - Herbert Armitage James, Tasker Watkins, Charles Nicholl, Roy Noble, Owen Owen, Owen Morgan Edwards, Jenkin Alban Davies (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Herbert Armitage James, Tasker Watkins, Charles Nicholl, Roy Noble, Owen Owen, Owen Morgan Edwards, Jenkin Alban Davies, Conway Rees, Annie Powell, Robert Thomas Jenkins, John Williams, Thomas Jenkins, Owen Price, Morgan Hector Phillips, Edward Owen, David Thomas, James Vincent, Elizabeth Phillips Hughes, David Williams, Rob Piercy. Excerpt: Annie Powell (September 1906 29 August 1986) was a Welsh Communist politician . Born in Rhondda and educated at Pentre Grammar School, Powell became interested in politics while at Glamorgan Training College, Barry, in the 1920s. It was while undertaking taking teacher training during the period of the 1926 General Strike that Annie Powell first became interested in politics and when she started teaching at Trebanog she witnessed the great degree of poverty faced by the schoolchildren and their families: "The poverty of the children hit me really hard." She joined the Labour Party, but was impressed by the emphasis laid on theory and action by the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). After long consideration, she put aside her non-conformist religious background and joined the CPGB in 1938. She remained a teacher and became active in the National Union of Teachers, while contesting Rhondda East for the party at several general elections from 1955. At the general election of 1959 she secured 4,580 votes. Powell was not only a Welsh-speaker but also taught in Welsh. She sat on the Welsh Committee of the CPGB, and at one time was its women 's organiser. In 1960, she was a CPGB delegate at a major conference of communist parties in Moscow, where she claimed to have impressed Nikita Khrushchev with her rendition of "Hen Wlad fy Nhadau," the national anthem of Wales. Perhaps as a result of this meeting, she became a supporter of Khrushche...