Thursday, September 20, 2018

a postcard of the hanging.


We go see Julie Hesmondhaigh (formally of Accrington) in a play in Manchester next Thursday.
 https://www.royalexchange.co.uk/whats-on-and-tickets/the-greatest-play-in-the-history-of-the-world-2018
Then we bugger off to Mid-Wales for a week  in a rented cottage .......i may take photos?
to give you an idea of what me & Cath might look like in Red Saunders 'Peterloo' might look like.....this is one he did earlier...  
William Cuffay and the London Chartists, 1842 
"The 1832 Reform Act had extended the vote to more men with property but the working class still did not have a vote. A nationwide campaign involving men and women called for change and they became known as The Chartists, the first mass working class movement in Britain. The People’s Charter of 1838 demanded votes for all men, constituencies of equal size, the abolition of the property qualification, annual parliaments and salaries for members of Parliament. Portrayed is a meeting of the London Chartists in Whitechapel, in 1842, with William Cuffay, the son of a slave and the elected President of the London Chartists. He was transported to Tasmania for his endeavours, later pardoned, and continued to be politically active there."
http://redsaundersphoto.eu/1842.html

1 comment:

Kristin said...

Congrats on your coming film stardom!

Phil

  Phil died early in the morning of Sunday 17th March at home with his Wife Iris by his side.