This was like an early, local version of the NHS. However, the new Minister for Health, Aneurin Bevan, who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tredegar, had to work hard to overcome opposition to ...

My name’s Aneurin Bevan, but my friends call me ‘Nye’…And I’ve spent a long time trying to make this happen! I was born in a town called Tredegar, in Wales, in 1897. When I was at school ...