Kenneth O. Morgan, Baron Morgan

Kenneth O. Morgan, Baron Morgan

Kenneth Owen Morgan, Baron Morgan FBA (* 16th May 1934 ) is a historian , university professor and politician of the Labor Party , which since 2000 as Peer Life Member of the House of Lords is. Lord Morgan became an expert on the history of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and in particular the history of Wales and the Labor Party , through his numerous publications of specialist literature and biographies .

Life

After attending school, Morgan completed a degree in history and, after completing his studies, was a lecturer between 1965 and 1966 and, most recently, since 1965, senior lecturer in history at the University College of Swansea . In addition, he worked as a visiting fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) at Columbia University between 1962 and 1963 and as a visiting professor there in 1965 .

In the mid-1960s, Morgan became known to a wider public when he worked as an election reporter for the BBC's radio and television program between 1964 and 1979 . After finishing his work at the University College of Swansea, he was from 1966 to 1989 Fellow and Praelector for the history of modern times and political science at Queen's College of the University of Oxford and at the same time 1967 to 1989 Lecturer at the University of Oxford. He was also a member of the Council for Celtic Studies between 1972 and 2003 and has been a member of the Welsh Political Archive since 1985.

After completing his teaching activities at the University of Oxford, he was Vice Chancellor of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth from 1989 to 1995 , and also Senior Vice Chancellor of the University of Wales between 1993 and 1995 . During this time he was also a member of the Council of the National Library of Wales from 1989 to 1995 . He then returned to the University of Cambridge as a lecturer in 1995 and was also a research professor at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth between 1995 and 1999. In the following years he also took on several visiting professorships and was at the University of Cape Town in 1997, at the Witwatersrand University between 1997 and 2000 and at the University of Bristol in 2000 . He was also visiting lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin in 1994 and 1999 and has been an honorary professor at Swansea University since 1999 .

Morgan was raised to the nobility by a Letters patent dated June 12, 2000 as a life peer with the title Baron Morgan , of Aberdyfi in the County of Gwynedd . Shortly thereafter took place on 12 July 2000 its introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . In the upper house it belongs to the faction of the Labor Party and was among others between 2001 and 2004. Member of the Upper House Committee on the Constitution, and in 2008 a member of the United Committee of the Parliament for the bill to renew the Constitution.

Since 2011 Lord Morgan, who was a member of the Monarchy Committee of the Fabian Society from 2002 to 2003 and was again a guest lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin in 2007, has been a visiting professor at King's College London .

honors and awards

He has received several awards for his services in research, teaching and politics and was made an Honorary Fellow at Swansea University in 1985 and an Extraordinary Fellow at Jesus College, University of Oxford between 1991 and 1992 . He was also an Honorary Fellow of Queen's College, University of Oxford (1992), the University of Wales, Cardiff (1997), Trinity College Carmarthen (1998) and Oriel College, University of Oxford (2003).

In addition, Lord Morgan, who has been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 1964 and the British Academy since 1983 , has been awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Wales (1997), the University of Glamorgan (1997) and the University of Greenwich (2004). He was also awarded the Honorary Bard of the Gorsedd of the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 2008 and the Gold Medal of the Honorable Society of Cymmrodorion for Lifetime Achievement in 2009.

Publications

In addition to teaching Morgan was 1965-2003 editor of the journal Welsh History Review , and at the same time from 1994 to 1999 by 20th Century British History . An expert on contemporary history of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland through his numerous publications of specialist literature and biographies on personalities such as Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison , Aneurin Bevan , James Callaghan , Michael Foot , James Griffiths , Keir Hardie and David Lloyd George and particularly for the history of Wales and the Labor Party. His most significant publications include:

• Wales in British Politics 1868-1922 (1963, 3rd edition 1980)
• David Lloyd George - Welsh Radical as World Statesman (1963, 2nd edition 1964)
• Freedom or Sacrilege? (1966)
• Keir Hardie (1967)
• The Age of Lloyd George (1971, 3rd edition 1983)
• Lloyd George - Family Letters 1885-1936 (1973)
• Lloyd George (1974)
• Keir Hardie - Radical and Socialist (1975)
• Consensus and Disunity - the Lloyd George Coalition Government 1918-1922 (1979)
• Portrait of a Progressive - the Political Career of Christopher, Viscount Addison (co-author Jane Morgan, 1980)
• Rebirth of a Nation - Wales 1880-1980 (1981)
• David Lloyd George 1863-1945 (1981)
• Welsh Society and Nationhood - Historical Essays (Associate Editor, 1984)
• The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain (editor, 1984, last edition 2009)
• Labor in Power 1945-1951 (1984)
• Labor People - Leaders and Lieutenants, Hardie to Kinnock (1987)
• The Oxford History of Britain (editor, 1988, last edition 2010)
• The Red Dragon and the Red Flag - The Cases of James Griffiths and Aneurin Bevan (1989)
• The People's Peace - British History since 1945 (1990, last edition 2001)
• Modern Wales, Politics, Places and People (1995)
• Young Oxford History of Britain and Ireland (Editor, 1996)
• Callaghan: A Life (1997)
• Crime, Protest and Police in British Society (Associate Editor, 1999)
• The Twentieth Century (2001)
• The Great Reform Act (2001)
• Michael Foot: A Life (2007)
• Ages of Reform (2011)

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on 23 November 2012)
• Kenneth Morgan at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed November 19, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett's (accessed November 23, 2012)