Talk:S. O. Davies

message: The Familysearch.org online register of birth records shows a Stephen Owen Davies being registered in Oct-Nov-Dec 1879. Source. That would seemingly confirm the Nov 9, 1879 DOB would it not?
Cite: "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2XFG-K8R : 1 October 2014), Stephen Owen Davies, 1879; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Birth Registration, Pontypridd, Glamorganshire, Wales, citing General Register Office, Southport, England.
Lilduff90 (talk) 16:01, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  How did we get 9 November? I thought it was 6 November or 27 November. Nirva20 (talk) 21:29, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible birth registration 

message: "No action followed and his popularity was unaffected" doesn't seem to follow from a secret intelligence file. I dropped "No action followed" and moved the rest to refer to losing the party whip, replacing the letter "justifying his position". Feel free to revert. zzz (talk) 02:42, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Labour rebel 

message: Dear all,
Just a note to let everyone who may be interested know that I have almost completed an updated and greatly extended biography of SO. It includes precise details of his birth, which I have got wrong in the past - alongside everyone else who has commented on the question! I have discovered much more about his family background, early life, his activities during the First World War and subsequently in the SWMF and MFGB. One or two previous errors of fact of mine or repeated by me - including some which feature in the Wiki entry - are corrected. I have also quoted extensively from Special Branch records. There is more about his role in the League Against Imperialism and his extensive links with Communists and trade unionists in Germany before and after WW2. After much searching, I have also found a quote from SO a couple of years after the events about his view of the Hungary crisis in 1956 (but nothing about Czechoslovakia in 1968). The claim on one history website that I avoided or covered up his views on these issues in the first biography was baseless then - and will be shown to be so in the new one.
Looking back on all the new material, it is clear to me that SO was a far more prominent figure in the MFGB (especially 1924-33) and as a Labour MP in the 1940s and 1950s than I had first thought (and would have liked him to have been!). He was often the headline speaker at meetings across Britain and in Ireland, and also had a bigger international reputation than I realised. Perhaps my past under-estimation - and that of others? - was the result of only seeing him from a modern-day vantage point, as an elderly left-wing rebel who was never more than a controversial but nonetheless highly marginal figure. 
Anyone who would like to contact me can do so by email at robdavid11@aol.com. Incidentally, in the light of some of the Wiki discussion, I should say that I have never regarded being a member of the Communist Party as licence to falsify, mislead or disregard facts. No doubt my ideological outlook affects how I see and judge things - but in my experience that is just as true for any historian who has liberal, conservative, social-democratic or far left views/ values/ perspectives or any eclectic mix of those or others. 
Best wishes, Robert Griffiths2A02:C7F:1C39:8F00:60F0:6633:7D1F:3E04 (talk) 23:52, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updated biography of SO Davies