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"This book is an important work, at once a celebration and an archaeological excavation. It uncovers an era and a culture almost forgotten today, and restores to both the place they deserve in our common history... No one reading Alun's book could fail to see that William Hazell was a remarkable man, even if he never gained, or sought, wider recognition... This is a book – as readable as it is pioneering – that deserves a wide audience, and not just in Wales, because its messages are universal.
- Andrew Green, Gwallter (blog)
"This is without a doubt the most significant work of labour history to emerge from South Wales in nearly twenty years... If you happen to read no other book of Welsh history this year, make sure you read this one!
- Daryl Leeworthy, History on the Dole (blog)
"Hazell's is a life that 'illuninates a community, a society and social movement' and thanks to this penetrating analysis of Hazell and his voluminous writings, we gain a deeper understanding of that society. This book will be essential reading for historians of the coalfield for some time to come.
- Steven Thompson, Planet magazine
"Alun Burge has broken new historical ground by writing a meticulously researched biography of William Hazell... If you want to know how and why the Co-Operative Movement played such an important role in the Valleys, this is the book to read.
- Wayne David, The Bevan Foundation Journal
"A detailed, engaging and affectionate biography of William Hazell, one of the hitherto unrecognised heroes of the cooperative movement in south Wales.... This significant study is the culmination of eight years of original and innovative research that has interrupted Burge's original intention to write the history of the coop movement in south Wales.
- Aled Eirug, The Welsh Agenda
"Alun Burge has performed a great service both to William Hazell and his family, and to the labour and co-operative movements, not to mention to a wider audience interested in labour history.
- Martin Wright, Welsh History Review
