Manchester, 2013. 50,000 people protest NHS cuts outside Conservative party conference.Tim Goode/EMPICS Entertainment. All rights reserved.In these days of Trump, Brexit, nuclear proliferation, and economic gloom, we need something to lift our spirits. It is rare for a book, and one containing fictionalised history, to help bring us down to earth, away from scary rhetoric.
Protest, subtitled Stories of Resistance, is a celebration of revolt, sometimes successful, more often not, over six centuries, from the Peasant’s Revolt in 1381 to the anti-war march in London in February 2003, a month before the invasion of Iraq.
It includes the Diggers, the Aldermaston marches, the Brixton riots, Welsh language protests, the Suffragettes, Greenham Common, and the Battle of Orgreave, and other protests most of us have probably never heard of.
