The night-soil men
Broady, Bill2024
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Broady's major work of fiction, nearly a decade in the writing, explores the origins and development of the Independent Labour Party - the working-class political movement founded in Bradford in 1893. Detailing the exploits, fortunes, and relationships of three central characters: passionate Fred Jowett, ruthless Philip Snowden (later, the Labour Party's first chancellor), and the licentious and unforgettable Victor Grayson. Spanning four decades, the novel covers the socialist foment and activism of fin-de-siècle Britain, the impact of the First World War and the changing landscape of the interwar years, as social change points forward to a new politics and the reinvention of Britain, despite fierce resistance from the establishment and its allies. And all punctuated with sex, comrades, hustings, art, dialect and copious points of order.
Main title:
The night-soil men / Bill Broady.
Author:
Broady, Bill, author
Imprint:
London : Salt, 2024.
Collation:
480 pages ; 20 cm.
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ISBN:
9781784633189 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
LC class:
PR6052.R457
Language:
English
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BRN:
3942663
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