Book launch

The Welsh publisher Honno is re-publishing Elizabeth Andrews' book A Women's work is never done this week. The book is edited by the historian Ursula Masson and Glenys Kinnock MEP has written the foreword. I am hosting a reception in the Assembly building on Friday to mark the publication.

Elizabeth Andrews - no relation - was one of the most influential Welsh female political activists of the early 20th century. Born in Hirwaun, she moved to Maerdy in the Rhondda in 1884 at the age of two.She began her political work in the Rhondda in the early part of the twentieth century.

A Woman's Work is Never Done, first published in 1957, is a rare first-hand account of a childhood and family life in the Rhondda at the end of the nineteenth century. It describes the pioneering work that led to Elizabeth becoming the Labour Party's first Women's Organiser for Wales from 1919-1947.