Tag: working class
Hymns and Arias: The Selected Poems, Songs and Stories
Rugby posts, bedraggled sheep, male voice choirs and redundant colliery wheels. Like the cartoonist Gren (Grenville Jones) – whose funny, affectionate …
Read moreThe Northern Question: A History of a Divided Country
The Northern Question is the opening shot of a campaign to place the North-South divide back at the centre of thinking about England. Belying its orig …
Read moreBarry Island: The Making of a Seaside Playground c1790–1965
Some British seaside resorts double as lazy jokes. Skegness, Blackpool and Clacton-on-Sea are names that trip off the tongue when there’s chatter abou …
Read moreThe Dead City Rollers by RT Stroud
Ffion Lindsay cannot imagine RT Stroud’s cinematic debut novel being set anywhere other than Swansea, a place where according to her personal experien …
Read moreResist: Stories of Uprising
Resist: Stories of Uprising charts the milestone moments of defiance in British history – from quiet personal stands to frenzied and uncontrollable ex …
Read moreA Little Gay History of Wales
Matt Lucas’ refrain in Little Britain, ‘the only gay in the village’, like so much else in that comedy series, played on presumed UK-wide prejudices – …
Read moreBrando’s Bride : The incredibly true story of Anna Kashfi and her marriage to one of Hollywood’s greatest stars
Marlon Brando is one of those movie heartthrobs we don’t quite get anymore – and I mean ‘get’ in both senses of the word. Odd-looking, with his sly ey …
Read moreTales from the Riverbank
Newport has always been a terminus for the nomadic working class. Forever economically depressed and an unemployment black spot – the first township y …
Read moreJumping Frogs
I write this twenty-eight weeks into pregnancy. I write while sitting in my living room, surrounded by the detritus of baby preparations and poetry su …
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