Protest: Stories of Resistance: 1 (History-into-Fiction) - Softcover

Kit De Waal; David Constantine; Alexei Sayle; Michelle Green; Stuart Evers; Sara Maitland; Matthew Holness; Martyn Bedford; Joanna Quinn; Frank Cottrell-Boyce; Jacob Ross; Sandra Alland; Maggie Gee; Juliet Jacques; Courttia Newland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910974439 ISBN 13: 9781910974438

Publisher: Comma Press, 2018

Synopsis

Whatever happened to British protest? For a nation that brought the world Chartism, the Suffragettes, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and so many other grassroots social movements, Britain rarely celebrates its long, great tradition of people power. In this timely and evocative collection, twenty authors have assembled to re-imagine key moments of British protest, from the Peasants Revolt of 1381 to the anti-Iraq War demo of 2003. Written in close consultation with historians, sociologists and eyewitnesses who also contribute afterwords these stories follow fictional characters caught up in real-life struggles, offering a street-level perspective on the noble art of resistance. In the age of fake news and post-truth politics this book fights fiction with (well researched, historically accurate) fiction. Featuring: Sara Maitland and Prof. Jane Whittle on THE PEASANT'S REVOLT Holly Pester and Dr. Steve Hindle on THE MIDLANDS RISING Matthew Holness and Dr. John Rees and Prof. Mark Stoyle on THE DIGGERS Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Dr. Ariel Hessayon on VENNER'S RISING Andy Hedgecock and Dr. Kartina Navickas on THE PENTRICH LUDDITES Laura Hird and Dr. Gordon Pentland on the RADICAL WAR Michelle Green and Elizabeth Crawford on THE SUFFRAGETTES Sandra Alland and Dr Francis Salt on the NATIONAL BLIND MARCH Stuart Evers and Dr Michael Randle on the ALDERMASTON MARCHES Kit de Waal and Avtar Jouhl on MALCOLM X in SMETHWICK Alexei Sayle and Rusell Hickman on the ANTI-VIETNAM WAR DEMO David and Stephen Constantine on the ANTI-RIVERS OF BLOOD MARCH Maggie Gee and Prof Sally Alexander on the NIGHT CLEANERS' STRIIKE Francesca Rhydderch and Ned Thomas on the WELSH LANGUAGE PROTESTS Jacob Ross and Prof. Stephen Reicher on the NEW CROSS FIRE & THE BRIXTON RIOTS Joanna Quinn and Lyn Barlow on GREENHAM COMMON Martyn Bedford and Prof. David Waddington on the BATTLE OF ORGREAVE Juliet Jacques and Dr. Em Temple-Malt on SECTION 28 Courttia Newland and Dr. John Drury on the POLL TAX RIOT Kate Clanchy and Prof. Laleh Khalili on the ANTI-IRAQ WAR DEMO This project has been supported by the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust and the Lipman-Miliband Trust, as well as Arts Council England.

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About the Author

Ra is the founder and Editorial Manager of Comma Press. He s the editor of numerous anthologies, including The City Life Book of Manchester Short Stories (Penguin, 1999), co-editor of The New Uncanny (winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, 2008) and Litmus, voted one of 2011 s books of the year by The Observer. Between 2004 and 2013 he was also the coordinator of Literature Northwest, a support agency for independent publishers in the region (until it formally merged with Comma). He also coordinates Comma Film, an on-going film adaptation project which regularly commissions filmmakers and animators to adapt short literary texts (poems and short stories). He is a former journalist, having been Deputy Editor for City Life magazine, and a former Director of Manchester Poetry Festival. His critical work has been published in The Journal of the Short Story in English, and he s been a producer, co-writer and co-director on a number of short film projects. He read Physics and Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford and has an MA in English from the University of Manchester.

Edition details

• Publisher: Comma Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1910974439
• ISBN 13: 9781910974438
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Ra Page