Research Catalog

Title

Making the heavens hum : Kingsley Wood and the art of the possible, 1881-1924 / Hugh Gault.

Author

Gault, Hugh,

Publication

Cambridge : Gretton Books, 2014.

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Details

Description

xii, 276 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

Born in Hull into a family of Liberal Methodists, Kingsley Wood was a solicitor and poor man's lawyer committed to individual rights, one-nation politics and applied Christianity. First a local Conservative politician, then a national one, he would now be described as the man who got things done. Wood helped national insurance and the Ministry of Health into being and oversaw the 'homes for heroes' housing programme after World War I. He campaigned for allotments, earlier shop closing, the right to jury trial and the rule of law. He was instrumental in the downfall of the first Labour government in 1924. Winston Churchill appointed him Chancellor of the Exchequer in May 1940, the office he still held at his death in September 1943.

Alternative Title

• Kingsley Wood. Part 1
• Making the heavens hum. Part 1, 1881-1924

Subject

• 1910-1936
• Conservative Party (Great Britain)
• Conservative Party (Great Britain) > Biography
• Conservative Party
• England > Hull
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 1910-1936
• Great Britain
• Hull (England) > Biography
• Lawyers > Great Britain > Biography
• Lawyers
• London County Council > Biography
• London County Council
• London. County Council
• Politicians > Great Britain > Biography
• Politicians
• Politics and government
• Wood, Kingsley, 1881-1943

Genre/Form

Biography.

Note

• This is intended to be the first volume of a two-part work, the second of which is to be entitled: Scenes from a political life 1925-1943 (see pages iv-v).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-265) and index.

ISBN

• 9780956204172
• 0956204171

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library