BOOK LAUNCH
‘Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg’
with Kate Evans
Tuesday 1st December, 7pm
Entry £3, redeemable against any purchase
‘Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg’
with Kate Evans
Tuesday 1st December, 7pm
Entry £3, redeemable against any purchase
A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the
foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. To Marx’s
biographer Franz Mehring, no one came as close to the towering intellect of
Marx himself.
But she was much more than just a thinker. She made herself heard in a world inimical to the voices of strong-willed women. She overcame physical infirmity and the prejudice she faced as a Jew to become an active revolutionary whose philosophy enriched every corner of an incredibly productive and creative life – her many friendships, her sexual intimacies, and her love of science, nature and art.
Always opposed to the First World War, when others on the German left were swept up on a tide of nationalism, she was imprisoned and murdered in 1919 fighting for a revolution she knew to be doomed.
Red Rosa gives Luxemburg her due as a radical and human being. In this beautifully drawn work of graphic biography, writer and artist Kate Evans has opened up her subject’s intellectual world to a new audience, grounding Luxemburg’s ideas in the realities of an inspirational and deeply affecting life.
Paperback, 224 pages
ISBN: 9781784780999
£9.99
But she was much more than just a thinker. She made herself heard in a world inimical to the voices of strong-willed women. She overcame physical infirmity and the prejudice she faced as a Jew to become an active revolutionary whose philosophy enriched every corner of an incredibly productive and creative life – her many friendships, her sexual intimacies, and her love of science, nature and art.
Always opposed to the First World War, when others on the German left were swept up on a tide of nationalism, she was imprisoned and murdered in 1919 fighting for a revolution she knew to be doomed.
Red Rosa gives Luxemburg her due as a radical and human being. In this beautifully drawn work of graphic biography, writer and artist Kate Evans has opened up her subject’s intellectual world to a new audience, grounding Luxemburg’s ideas in the realities of an inspirational and deeply affecting life.
Paperback, 224 pages
ISBN: 9781784780999
£9.99
BOOK LAUNCH
'Render the Chartists Defenceless' with Les James
'Render the Chartists Defenceless' with Les James
Wednesday 2nd December, 7pm
Entry £3, redeemable against any purchase
Entry £3, redeemable against any purchase
Newport publishers Three Impostors announce the release of a new book revealing
an explosive new twist in the story of the Newport Rising which was
the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in Great Britain when,
on the 4th November 1839, somewhere between 1,000 and 5,000 Chartist sympathisers,
led by John Frost, marched on the town of Newport, Monmouthshire.
Newport–born Hollywood actor Michael Sheen introduces the
book, in which historian Les James describes the previously untold story of the
voyage of Frost, Zephaniah Williams and William Jones to Van Diemen’s Land in
1840, to start their sentence of transportation for life for treason.*
Lulled at first by the kindness of those in authority on
board the convict ship Mandarin, the prisoners gradually became aware of the
web of intrigue and surveillance around them, and suspicious of the possibility
of government spies watching their every move. Were these suspicions correct?
Les James is a former Museum Education Officer for Gwent,
and Senior Lecturer at the University of Wales, Newport, with a long-standing
research interest in south Wales Chartism.
Three Impostors is a small publisher established in Newport
in 2012 with the aim of producing high quality, scholarly versions of rare and
out-of-print books, along with other related new writing. Their first book was
a commemorative edition of 'Far Off Things' by Arthur Machen, published in 2013
to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his death.
*[RaHN note] Data newly available from the Digital Panopticon project (more on this to follow):
Transportation Register 24th February 1840
John Frost colony Van Diemen's Land term 21 years ship Mandarin
tried Monmouth Special Gaol Delivery register text -
"Convicted at Monmouth Special Gaol Delivery for a term
of life."
Founders & Survivors 30th June 1840 John Frost age 55 b 1785 height 67 term 99 years
tried Special Gaol Delivery trial date 10th December 1839 vdl departure date 25th February 1840
vdl arrival date 30th June 1840 ship vdl Mandarin place of birth "Newport"
offence report "High Treason" gaol report -
"Convicted and imprisoned before for a Libel, otherwise
his Character very good"
hulk report "Good"
Founders & Survivors 30th June 1840 Zephaniah Williams age 44 b 1796 height 67
term 99 years tried Special Gaol Delivery trial date 10th December 1839
vdl departure date 25th February 1840 vdl arrival date 30th June 1840
ship vdl Mandarin offence report "High Treason" gaol report -
"very good previous to this affair and former
Mutiny" hulk report "Good"
Transportation Register 24th February 1840 Zephaniah Williams colony Van Diemen's Land
term 21 years ship Mandarin tried Monmouth Special Gaol Delivery
register text - "Convicted at Monmouth Special Gaol Delivery for a term
of life."
(William Jones is more difficult to locate/identify in these records).
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