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Left-Libertarian Currents: Anarchism, Literature and Historiography In ?  Modern Britain

Left-Libertarian Currents: Anarchism, Literature and Historiography In ? Modern Britain


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David Goodway surveys key figures, among them Gerald Brenan, G.K. Chesterton, G.D.H. Cole, George Orwell, Raphael Samuel, E.P. Thompson and Colin Ward. He reflects on literature and experience, offering insights on the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the Spanish revolution, and the Peckham Health Centre as the model for an alternative to the Welfare State.​

This anthology includes new and pioneering coverage of the Rossetti sisters addressing an episode in the very early days of anarchist activity in the UK. ‘Throughout, there runs an emphasis on the connection between British left-libertarianism and literature’. ​



Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. What does it mean to be an Anarchist; 
2. From Pre-Raphaelitism to Anarchism: The Rossetti Sisters and The Torch; 
3. Freedom, 1886-2014: An Appreciation; 
4. Colin Ward and the New Left; 
5. Raphael Samuel (1934-1996): A Reminiscence; 
6. E.P. Thompson: The Making of The Making; 
7. G.D.H. Cole: A Libertarian Trapped in the Labour Party; 
8, The Libertarian Politics of G.K. Chesterton; 
9. Gerald Brenan (1894-1987): Bloomsbury, Gamel Woolsey and Spain; 
10. Lessons of the Spanish Revolution and Vernon Richards; 
11. The Catastrophe of 1917; 
12. Orwell and Trotskyism; 
13. Ken Weller (1935-2021); 
14 Nicolas Walter; 
15 Literature and Anarchism; 
16. Revisiting Charlie Lahr: Anarchist, Bookseller, Publisher; 
17. Herbert Read: Organicism, Abstraction and an Anarchist Aesthetic; 
18. Anarchism and the Welfare State: The Peckham Health Centre; 
19. A Reading List for the Occupy Movement; 20. Autobiographical Note. ​

About the Author :
DAVID GOODWAY taught at the University of Leeds and has been a Visiting Fellow in History at Girton College, Cambridge.

Review :
For some time now, David Goodway has been this country's leading historian and scholar of British anarchism and left libertarian thought. Following his masterly Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow (2006), Left Libertarian Currents offers another collection of elegant, insightful essays on Britain's finest rebel thinkers. With characteristic precision and verve, Goodway provides both a rigorous history of contemporary free thinking but also a timely and relevant resource for reflecting on the perilous state of our freedom today.  Dr Sophie Scott-Brown​


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780850368017
  • Publisher: The Merlin Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: The Merlin Press Ltd
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 410
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Anarchism, Literature and Historiography In ? Modern Britain
  • ISBN-10: 0850368014
  • Publisher Date: 02 Apr 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 156 mm


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