In the meantime I've come across a very interesting piece on gender and protest in the last 350 years. It's really quite good - who knew the BBC's online News Magazine could do thought-provoking? Here's an extract:
In the early 18th Century, labourers in Surrey rioted in women's clothes, and men disguised as women tore down the hated tollbooths and turnpike gates on the Gloucestershire border. Most notoriously, the so-called 'Rebecca riots' in Wales in the 1830s and 1840s, by farmers and agricultural workers against taxes and tolls, were led by gangs of noisy men in women's clothes.Found out why here.
How's the poll coming on?
ReplyDeleteStill set for the big reveal on Sept 1st.
ReplyDeleteIf you haven't read the article you mind find some interesting material for one of your shows ...
Sorry, yes, you told me, apologies.
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