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Former clerk, theatre worker, musician and journalist, David Black’s previous books are ‘Acid: A New Secret History of LSD’ (1997, 2001, 2005) and ‘Helen Macfarlane: A Feminist, Revolutionary Journalist and Philosopher in Mid-19th Century England’ (2004). Now with '1839 - The Year of Chartist Insurrection' he and Christopher Ford (author, ‘Ukraine’s Orange Revolution’ - 2006 - and ‘Borotbism' -2007) tell the story of the birth of the Chartists and how their first campaign brought Britain closer to revolution than at any time since the Civil War.

favourite books

1776 - David McCullough
A People’s History of the United States - Howard Zinn.
Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global - Paul Mason
The Cheese and the Worms - Carlo Ginsburg
Culloden - John Prebble
The Making of the English Working Class - EP Thompson
Blake – Peter Ackroyd
Q - Luther Blissert
Lost Illusions - Balzac

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The Knowledge wrote 421 days ago

David, Got two books on here bro if you want to look them over. Dav....

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I write with greetings and invitation to read my memoir, INSIDE DEAD.....

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I wrote 1214 days ago

Good to see revival of Mr Else's Bretwalda (see my comments below from many moons yonder). Read it. Love it. Back it. view book

I wrote 1694 days ago

Welcome to the non-fiction faction. We are the underdogs of this site, due to the ludicrous genre classification and the built-invoting monopoly of back-slapping and backstabbing fictioneers (yes I know Chickens and Churchbells is doing well - it reads beautifully - it's got nothing to do with the l... view book

I wrote 1701 days ago

Maybe it's Diversion Tactic #18: Life is shit, you're shit, I'm shit; why bother arguing about anything? view book

I wrote 1702 days ago

The argument that "With or without money, people will find a way to oppress, divide and conquer one another" does strike me as pessimistic and misanthropic. To point that out is hardly diversionary.. view book

I wrote 1723 days ago

I've dipped into this and I think KR may have identified a problem with your theming. Perhaps it might be better to have a limited number of categories in each section under headings: the arts, science, politics, sport etc. I can't imagine how you researched all this stuff but it's impressive. ... view book

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