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All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn’t read, and their rulers didn’t care about remembering what happened to them – Frank Zappa

Other / White Other

16 November 2020 / 326

Other/ White Other by Fran Lock There is silence in the workshop when the young woman asks me am I sure I’m white. Silence, not embarrassed, but... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Life Writing

Climate Matters

6 November 2020 / 311

Sally Flint, Virginia Baily and Mike Quille have edited a new anthology of various kinds of writing on the subject of the climate crisis and capitalism. It is... Continue reading

Sally Flint

Life Writing

Rebelling against materialism and dullness: I Don’t Want To Go To The Taj Mahal, by Charlie Hill

23 September 2020 / 342

Robert J. Gallagher, himself a Birmingham boy, reviews I Don’t Want To Go To The Taj Mahal: Stories of a Birmingham Boy, by Charlie Hill, available here... Continue reading

Robert J. Gallagher

Life Writing

1 September 2020 / 339

Michael Jarvie introduces a new section of our website, on Life Writing My collection of working-class life writing, Into the Silence, has a Dewey Decimal Classification of... Continue reading

Michael Jarvie

Life Writing

‘Between Misery and the Sun’: I Don’t Want to Go to the Taj Mahal, by Charlie Hill

1 September 2020 / 367

Fran Lock reviews Charlie Hill’s new memoir Charlie Hill’s memoir, I Don’t Want to Go to the Taj Mahal, is told in a series of linked poetic... Continue reading

Fran Lock