CANCELLED – Sylvia Pankhurst, ‘The Dreadnought’ and the Great War

Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst

The event below has been concelled due to illness. It will be re-arranged at a later date

Although her mother Emmeline and sister Christabel were vocal supporters of World War 1, Sylvia Pankhurst’s newspaper ‘ The Dreadnought’ was the most consistently anti-war publication. It not only opposed the global conflict but condemned the crushing of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, supported the 1917 Russian Revolution and campaigned for a revolution in Britain. Come and hear more about her life and her part in resisting the war.

Date: Thursday 24th November, 2016
Time: 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Venue: The Hydra Bookshop, 34 Old Market, Bristol, BS2 0EZ
Map: Here
Price: Donation
Speaker: John Newsinger

Professor John Newsinger is the author of numerous books including The Blood Never Dried: A People’s History of the British Empire (2006)Fighting Back: The American Working Class in the 1930s (2012) and most recently The Revolutionary Journalism of Big Bill Haywood: On the Picket Line with the IWW (2016).

For more information email rememberingrealww1@gmail.com

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