This meeting has been re-arranged from last November, when John Newsinger was unable to come due to illness.
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 25th May, 2017
Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 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