In Talking to Women, Nell Dunn puts her finger on one of the most important, but least-intelligently aired, social problems … More
Tag: London
As drummer with the Small Faces, Faces & later The Who, Jones’ unique sense of rhythm was the heartbeat that powered three of the most influential rock bands of all time. Beginning in London’s post-war East End, Kenney’s story takes us through the birth of the Mod revolution
In a career spanning six decades, Kenney was at the epicentre of many of the most exciting moments in music … More
In 18th-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form of punishing transgressors. Rather is evidently served the more sinister purpose – for privileged ruling class – of forcing the poor population of London to accept the criminalization of customary rights & new forms of private property.
Peter Linebaugh’s groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London … More
An electrifying graphic novel that brings the British Mod culture of the 6os to vivid life.
Living for Kicks is Omnibus’s first fictional graphic novel, the tale of young Mod Spike Spellane and his attempts to … More
Beginning of the Peasants’ Revolt in England OTD in 1381.
Hub of empire, world port and seat of government, London has a political history that is nevertheless entwined with the … More
Tells the story of the music & the larger-than-life characters making it, journeying from Soho jazz clubs to Brixton blues parties to King’s Cross warehouse raves to the streets of Notting Hill – & onto sound systems everywhere.
For as long as people have been migrating to London, so has their music. An essential link to home, music … More
OTD 1701, William Kidd was hanged for Piracy and his body was gibbetted on the Thames at Wapping as a warning to others.
Villains of All Nations is a people’s history of piracy–a history that emphasizes how common seamen who turned pirate built … More
The World is a Wedding moves from Kops’ childhood years of absolute poverty in London’s Jewish East End through to the dens of Soho and his emergence as a major writer in the ’50s.
The World is a Wedding moves from Bernard Kops’ childhood years of absolute poverty in London’s Jewish East End through … More
A pioneering study of working-class literature. Its first publication helped revive a number of literary reputations, such as those of Alexander Baron & James Hanley
Ken’s first book, Dockers and Detectives, has now been re-published by Five Leaves Press. This early study of twentieth-century working … More
A lot is written, sometimes carelessly, about how women share their female experiences in common across the social divides; this novel takes us inside the complexity of that sharing.
A celebration of the drama and intensity of the mother-child relationship, Margaret Drabble’s The Millstone won the John Llewellyn Rhys … More
