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Date: , 2016

Time: to

Price: £6/4

With: Sheila Rowbotham

Series: Not in a series

Note: This event was not organised by BRHG.

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Subjects: Radical Bristol, Women, Workers Organisations & Strikes

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At Waterstones, use Union Street Entrance.

Sheila Rowbotham recounts the interweaving lives of four women and two men – Helena Born, Miriam Daniell, Gertrude Dix, Robert Nicol, and William Bailie – as they migrate to America from Bristol, Edinburgh and Manchester. Radicalised by the rise of socialism, they cross the Atlantic dreaming of liberty and equality. Their lives open fascinating slants on both political and cultural movements and upon influential individuals like Walt Whitman, Eleanor Marx, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, Patrick Geddes and Benjamin Tucker, and their aspirations for individual emancipation and a co-operative society resonate powerfully today.

Part of Bristol Festival of Ideas.

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Event details

Date: , 2016

Time: to

Price: £6/4

With: Sheila Rowbotham

Series: Not in a series

Note: This event was not organised by BRHG.


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