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The deadly scandal in the building trade | Nick Cohen
Hastings :: United Kingdom | 10 months ago
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Building sites where up to 50% of the workers are self-employed...It dictates how the British live and when they die, which children succeed and which fail...When presented with a genuine scandal that cries out for punishment and reform, the talking
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The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists – review
Cape Town :: South Africa | 1 year ago
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Tristram Kenton Stephen Lowe first adapted Robert Tressell's socialist novel for the Joint Stock Theatre Company in 1978; a year later he published a story detailing the play's evolution from a cast outing to the seaside, replicating an event in the
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A room of one's own: why the Women's Library should not be made history | Beatrix Campbell
Birmingham :: United Kingdom | 1 year ago
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The Women's Library, part of London Metropolitan University in Whitechapel, is facing closure. Artefacts housed in the library include a bust of Josephine Butler and a T-shirt from the 2005 Fawcett campaign. Photograph: Teri Pengilley There will be
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Manchester International Festival 2011: Kevin Eldon interview
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | almost 2 years ago
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I do remember that he and comedian Simon Munnery and me were in an Edinburgh taxi during the festival when we heard about Princess Di's death in 1997...Probably sightseeing, taking in local places of cultural interest...The sheer challenge of setting
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Letters: Ragged philanthropy thrives in Liverpool
Liverpool :: United Kingdom | over 2 years ago
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Letters Ragged philanthropy thrives in Liverpool Howard Brenton ( The Great Money Trick , Saturday review, 5 February) will be delighted to know that the struggle for the co-operative commonwealth is alive and well in Liverpool. To celebrate Robert
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Rereading: Howard Brenton on The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Dublin :: Ireland | over 2 years ago
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Tim Francis, Will Beer and Larry Dann in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists at the Minerva theatre, Chichester. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Around the year 1905, in a seaside town on the south coast of England, a group of painters and decorators
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Letter: The Tressell trail
Hastings :: United Kingdom | over 2 years ago
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Letter The Tressell trail Tony Benn commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Robert Tressell ( An antidote to despair , 3 February), saying "this book [The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists] should be read and studied by this generation if
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An antidote to socialist despair | Tony Benn
Tunis :: Tunisia | over 2 years ago
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An antidote to socialist despair A century after his death, Robert Tressell's Ragged Trousered Philanthropists can still give the left hope Robert Tressell's book The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a major socialist novel that has influenced
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Spur of the Moment; Pygmalion; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist; The Magical Menagerie | Theatre review
London :: United Kingdom | almost 3 years ago
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Yasmin Paige, Rosie Day, Shannon Tarbet and Jordan Loughran in Spur of the Moment by Anya Reiss...It's vivid and spiky and brought into quick-moving life in Jeremy Herrin's excellent production. Spur of the Moment puts on stage the jackdaw chatter,
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Painter and decorator Jim Walker on The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Liverpool :: United Kingdom | almost 3 years ago
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Another view on The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists A life-long painter and decorator reveals how The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists made him determined to be a good boss Jim Walker "I've worked with men who are like all the characters" ... Finbar
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