{"id":1311,"date":"2022-01-13T17:30:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T17:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2022-09-06T16:17:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T16:17:06","slug":"two-hundred-years-of-dulwich-radicalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/?p=1311","title":{"rendered":"Two Hundred Years of Dulwich Radicalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong> by Duncan Bowie<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1312\" src=\"http:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cover2-400x566.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cover2-400x566.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cover2-700x990.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cover2-106x150.jpg 106w, https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cover2-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cover2.jpg 794w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/>Two Hundred Years of Dulwich Radicalism<\/strong> by <em>Duncan Bowie<\/em> is a fascinating read for anyone who is interested in British political and social history, the history of the Dulwich area, or both,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obtainable from local bookshops in Dulwich or directly from the author<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:duncanbowie@yahoo.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">duncanbowie@yahoo.co.uk<\/a> &#8211; <strong>price \u00a310<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It documents the lives of men and women, some of them &#8211; like John Ruskin, Ebenezer Howard and Sam King &#8211; celebrated figures whose stories are well known, others less so, but no less fascinating.The biographies enable us to imagine a hive of political activity taking place across the Dulwich area over time, from campaign meetings to pamphlet writing, dinner party conversations, organising and speech writing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"first-line-indent\"><em>Duncan&#8217;s book is a source of inspiration. It is a reminder of what can be achieved by passionate people, driven by a desire for justice and fairness, working together; and it is a fascinating insight into our local history and the contribution that the Dulwich area has made to social and political change across three centuries.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i><b>Helen Hayes MP<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><b> <\/b><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>&#8211; <\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Member of Parliament for Dulwich and West Norwood<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Duncan Bowie Two Hundred Years of Dulwich Radicalism by Duncan Bowie is a fascinating read for anyone who is interested in British political and social history, the history of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-members-publications","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}