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Courage: Luddites, Peterloo, Chartists, Suffragettes
Courage: Luddites, Peterloo, Chartists, Suffragettes | Polyp
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A raw graphic history of the fight for the vote by Polyp
The shockingly violent story of the struggle for the UK vote, from the Luddites to the Suffragettes: compact, vivid, raw and challenging. Told entirely in the words of the time.
Ideal for young adults, totally unsuitable for anyone with a rose-tinted view of history.
A great companion piece to PETERLOO.
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Polyp's latest graphic history is about the historical fight for universal suffrage in Britain. 🗳️✊

I like his approach of drawing his text mainly from contemporary accounts of the events & embedding them in his drawings. He's said that he often uses as his models journalistic photos of more recent events (such as the Miners' Strike and Hillsborough) to make the links between past and present protest, oppression & injustice. Powerful stuff.

Bookwomble @charl08 I've not seen Polyp's books on the usual book retailing sites. You can order from him directly off his own website 😊: https://polyp.org.uk/ 2d
charl08 @Bookwomble thanks! 2d
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