MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
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History from below is written in our streets
Rebel Footprints, David Rosenberg's great and indispensable walking guide to radical London, has just been republished in an updated edition. Here he introduces the outstanding people and places covered in the book, from the Chartist era onwards
Suffragette Rosa May Billinghurst
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JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production that panders – if inadvertently – to Western prejudice against China
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a history that excavates the enormous role played by agricultural workers in recent times
ALEX HALL recommends a book that places empirical evidence at the heart of understanding racism
REBEL Footprints is about grassroots movements for change. Celebrating outstanding and iconoclastic individuals, it highlights those who based their hopes for change on a collective
movement.
Some, such as docks-strike leader Ben Tillett, suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, secularist and anti-war campaigner Bertrand Russell, writer and activist Eleanor Marx and Labour politician George Lansbury, are more well-known.
But readers will also meet individuals with whom they may be less familiar, such as Chartist leader William Cuffay, whose father was born into slavery in the Caribbean, sweatshop worker and anarchist campaigner Milly Witkop, suffragette Rosa May Billinghurst — who undertook courageous acts of civil disobedience from her wheelchair — and veteran East End brushmaker Mrs Savoy, who made a powerful impact on Prime Minister Herbert Asquith when they met in June 1914.
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