REBEL FOOTPRINT: The Savoy Hotel, site of the palace destroyed during the Peasants’ Revolt
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HENRY BELL is fascinated by the underlying curiosities and contradictions of one of the great poets of the Mediterranean
DAVID RENTON recommends a books that explores the ways in which disabled people are made to feel both of and not part of this world
JONATHAN TAYLOR is fascinated by the philosophical problems that permeate the art of life-writing
GORDON PARSONS steps warily in between the lines of Britain’s most famous diarist
SIMON DUFF recommends a recording of Arvo Part that takes the listener on a pilgrimage through seemingly distant times and events of the Bible
DAVID ROSENBERG has demolished an assumption and disrupted a habit.
I always assumed that my knowledge of London’s dissenting tradition was adequate but incomplete, but this revised edition of his Rebel Footprints exposes my ignorance of key aspects of even the better-known episodes in the city’s radical history.
