CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
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Welcome new light shed on longest strike in English history
ANGUS REID recommends a very unusual documentary: a love story between two disillusioned journalists
In verse and polemic, the bard points out that he is a poet and musician, not a political party
MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
The Village in Revolt
by Shaun Jeffery
(Higdon Press, £14.99)
THERE are numerous accounts of the Burston school strike, which is the longest in English history, running from 1914 to 1939. Among them is The Burston Rebellion, the personal account by Tom Higdon whose unfair dismissal along with his wife led to the children striking on their behalf.
Yet many of those accounts are at best partial and at worst lacking in crucial detail and accuracy and none provides as comprehensive nor as overtly socialist an account in their analysis and detail as this new work by Shaun Jeffery. Its synthesis of in-depth secondary research and lived experience make it a compelling account and point of reference.
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