AUT: New at Practical History

["Neil Gordon" <practicalhistory@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

New at Practical History

www.geocities.com/pract_history

Churchill, the Cenotaph and May Day 2000

A response to the graffiting of official monuments in London on May Day 2000
looking at the origins of war memorials in the social conflicts at the end
of World War One and at the myth of the Second World War as an anti-fascist
crusade. It includes material on the politics of monuments, revolutionary
opposition to the Second World War and the British empire, and comments on
the implications of these for contemporary anti-capitalist movements.

A short history of radical puppetry ? Kerry Mogg

The ?carnivalesgue? has often been a feature of popular rebellion. Recently
we have seen its self-conscious re-emergence in the US and the UK (notably
on Reclaim the Streets actions). Masks, fancy dress and puppets perform a
dual role, providing both a pleasurable escape from the routines of everyday
life and means of disguise. This article appeared in the Detroit-based Fifth
Estate paper, Spring 2000, prompted by the use of giant puppets on recent
demonstrations in Washington, Toronto and Seattle (and we might add London).

The Practical History site also includes documents on the Ireland, Iraq, the
gulf war, reclaim the streets, riots in London's Hyde park, animals and
communism.

Practical History... being a miscellany of antiquarian documents intended to
be of some use to levellers, ranters, road diggers, ne'erdowells and others
who would turn the world upside down

www.geocities.com/pract_history



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