Putting it on
David Marquand, 12 September 1991
A Life at the Centre
by Roy Jenkins.
Macmillan, 600 pp., £20, September 1991,0 333 55164 8 Show More
by Roy Jenkins.
Macmillan, 600 pp., £20, September 1991,
“... once told me, into the ‘working-class squirearchy’ of the South Wales coalfield. His father, Arthur Jenkins, was a miner, who went down the pit at the age of 12, worked underground until his late thirties, and ended as president of the South Wales Miners’ Federation, a Labour MP and Clement Attlee’s PPS. In a haunting opening chapter, Jenkins brings ... ”