Peter Evans is a Teacher at Bristol University, where he was awarded a PhD in History in 2014. His teaching currently focuses on late nineteenth-century concepts of utopia and his doctoral research examined British and US socialist utopian literature in this period. This article was written on behalf of Assemblies for Democracy who will be meeting in Glasgow, Manchester and London this Spring.
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