Britain in the 1970s: new publication
New book just published, with a chapter by my good self, entitled "What questions should historians be asking about UK popular music in the 1970s?"
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Review of Alan Gibbons' novel "Winds of October"
Winds of October Alan Gibbons, Winds of October, Hastings, Circaidy Gregory Press, 2017, 230 pages Alan Gibbons has published over sixty books, usually novels for young people, and often engaging with contemporary political questions. Hate dealt with hate crime; The Trap dealt with terrorism; An Act of Love tells the story of two childhood friends who both end up fighting in Afghanistan, but not on the same side. Caught in the Crossfire tells a story of intercommunal violence. Gibbons does scores of school visits every year, runs campaigns to save libraries, and carries out other vital activities in our neoliberal world. He is an anti-capitalist activist and can be found knocking on doors for Corbyn or at innumerable demos, summer schools or meetings for the cause. This of course goes some way towards explaining his latest project, a trilogy of short novels set during the Russian Revolution, of which the first is just out, under the title Winds of October . It is a fast-paced read,...