Thanks to everyone who came and made the London launch of Sylvia Pankhurst's book so enjoyable. It was a pleasure to introduce this text in the beautiful Bishopsgate Institute, which has a fantastic archival collection of women's and labour history. It was an honour to be discussing this text with Lindsey German, whose own knowledge and experience of socialist activism allowed for a really interesting and political discussion of women, work, race, class, American capitalism, what made Milwaukee famous and much, much more. I'll post more pictures and footage from the event later, but here are two pictures of me and Lindsey German discussing the book taken by Shabbir Lakha:
Meanwhile, I have some exciting news as two more upcoming events have been announced. On 23 June I'll be taking the book to Chicago - a city that had a profound impact on Sylvia Pankhurst - speaking at City Lit Books at 3.30pm. On 26 June I'm going to be presenting the book at Haskell Indian Nations University which Sylvia visited in 1911 and wrote about in chapter 6 of the book! I'll be very interested to hear what the students studying there today feel about the text as well as about what's currently happening in the US.
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