Whether you’ve already started The Future In Our Past or are just picking it up, join us for our in-person book club discussion.
The evening will be hosted by our bookseller Blake. Come share your thoughts, insights, and questions in a welcoming space for all readers.
A superb, innovative approach that interweaves a vivid historical account of the epic General Strike with perceptive social reportage on workers’ struggles in the transformed world of employment today - Ralph Darlington, author of Labour Revolt in Britain 1910–14
Date: Thursday 16th July | The Common Press
About the book:
A fresh, accessible history of the 1926 General Strike on its centenary – telling a story of working-class community then and now.
The Future in Our Past tells the story of the 1926 General Strike on its centenary. It is a compelling on-the-ground account of how workers brought the country to a standstill for nine extraordinary days. Callum Cant and Matthew Lee take us on a journey through a Britain living on its nerves, from the London docklands to the South Wales coalfields and the railways and warehouses of middle England. Churchill feared that labour militancy presaged a Bolshevik-style revolution. The question of power hung in the air as rank-and-file militants pursued a chaotic, improvised and wildly uneven confrontation with the British ruling class.
This is social history at its most immediate and relevant. Cant and Lee revisit the communities where the struggle burned brightest, uncovering the lessons the General Strike holds for labour movements today.
Drop by in-store to pick up the book or buy online HERE.
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- Doors open at 19:00
- Discussion from 19:15 - 8:15
- Mingle and social until 21:00