Date: Sunday, 27 November 2011
Time: 15:00
Speaker: Steve Higginson
Venue:Hydra Books, 34 Old Market
“Rhythms That Carry”
“You need not attach great importance to the rioting in Liverpool last night. It took – place in an area cheap jerseys where disorder is a chronic feature”.
– Winston Churchill
When Churchill made this statement to Parliament, Liverpool was under tropical martial law: a gunboat was eventos moored on the Mersey, dockers, seafarers, and transport workers were on general strike.
Rhythms that Carry, will explore and illuminate new histories concerning the events of 1911. In 1886, a magazine described Liverpool as being the “New York of Europe,…..
A World City”. The Hallo open-ended nature of the port gave Liverpool a cosmopolitan edge and had a cheap jerseys profound impact on the industrial, artistic, educational, cultural and social life of Liverpool.
However, there are questions that have remained unanswered with regards to the spontaneous nature and Sevgiliye causes of the strikes that engulfed Liverpool across that long hot summer.
Rhythms that Carry, will attempt to answer these questions and much more besides.1911 represented the birth of Speed-Up Capitalism. A natural tide and motion was being replaced by time and motion. The prominence of women and people of colour left cheap nba jerseys a lasting imprint and symbolised Liverpool as the epicentre of new interlinking cultural and social movements………What was the influence of Liverpool 1911 on Charlie cheap nba jerseys Chaplin?
Part of Bristol Radical History Group’s Week “Scouse Sunday”
