Mark Steel Lectures - Sylvia Pankhurst
Tracing her life from schooldays in radical Manchester to retirement in rural Essex, when Haile Selassie
occasionally came to call, Sylvia Pankhurst the revolutionary and Rastafarian sympathiser is brought to
life as only Mark Steel can. From a bed-in with Keir Hardie to Kill Bill style ju-jitsu, here's everything
you didn't know about this pioneer of democracy.
Recalling a time when Manchester was the most radical city in Britain, this latest instalment in Mark Steel's
comedy lecture series resonates with today's human rights campaigners and anti-war radicals, as well as
containing a short section revealing the best type of stone to smash windows with.
(from open2.net)
| Mark Steel Lectures - Sylvia Pankhurst |
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| Sylvia Pankhurst - wikipedia Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960) was an English campaigner for the suffragist movement in the United Kingdom. She was for a time a prominent left communist who then devoted herself to the cause of anti-fascism. |
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