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Kim Scott Howells (born 27 November 1946) is a Welsh Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontypridd from 1989 to 2010, and held a number of ministerial positions within the Blair and Brown governments. ==Biography== Howells is the son of the late Glanville Howells, a Communist lorry driver,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dr Kim Howells )〕 and of Joan Glenys Howells. Born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales and raised in Penywaun near Aberdare in the Cynon Valley, he is a former pupil of Mountain Ash Grammar School. Howells went to Hornsey College of Art (now part of Middlesex University) where he was active in the (May 1968 student occupation ), and was the first protester to breach the Metropolitan Police cordon at the demonstration against the Vietnam War outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square in 1968.〔 Howell featured as a student leader at Hornsey College of Art in director John Goldschmidt's film ''Our Live Experiment is worth more than 3,000 Textbooks'', made for Granada Television and shown on the ITV network. He attended Cambridge College of Arts and Technology between 1971 and 1974 where he studied for a Joint Honours Degree and was awarded an upper second, which allowed him to follow post-graduate studies in history. Howells later obtained a PhD from the University of Warwick in 1979 for a thesis entitled ''A view from below : tradition, experience and nationalism in the South Wales coalfield, 1937–1957''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=University of Warwick Library /Theses )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kim Howells」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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