'The idea was simple - take the most impassioned speeches about the fight for what is right and bring them to life for a new generation' COLIN FIRTH
The People Speak tells the story of Britain through the voices of the visionaries, dissenters, rebels and everyday folk who took on the Establishment and stood up for what they believed in. Here are their stories, letters, speeches and songs, from John Ball to Daniel Defoe; from Thomas Paine to Oscar Wilde; from the peasants' revolts to the suffragists to the anti-war demonstrators of today. Spanning almost 1,000 years and over 150 individual voices, these are some of the most powerful words in our history.
Compiled by Academy Award-winning actor Colin Firth, influential writer Anthony Arnove and acclaimed historian David Horspool, The People Speak reminds us that history is not something gathering dust on a library shelf - and that democracy has never been a spectator sport.
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INDEX
Aethelwine, Bishop of Durham ref1
African Progress Union, Archer’s Presidential Address to Inaugural Meeting (1918) ref1
Agricultural Labourers’ Union ref1
Aguilar, Grace ref1
Aldermaston March (1958) ref1
Alexander the Great ref1
Alexius, Emperor of Constantinople ref1
Ali, Tariq ref1
Aliens at Trades Union Congress, Cardiff (1895) ref1
Allan, Thomas and George ref1
Ambedkar, B. R. ref1
American Declaration of Independence (1776) ref1
Anabaptist heresies ref1
Angola, Portuguese colony of ref1
‘Animals’ Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress’, 1892 (Salt, H. S.) ref1
Anne, Queen ref1
Anti-Nazi League ref1
Anti-Slavery Society ref1, ref2, ref3
Apartheid South African Cricket and Rugby, Hain’s defence in trial for (1972) ref1
Apologia Malancthionis ref1
‘An Appeal for Peace with France,’ 1412 (Hoccleve, T.) ref1
Aragon, Catherine of ref1, ref2
Arbroath, Declaration of (1320) ref1, ref2
Arch, Joseph ref1, ref2
Archer, John ref1
Argyll, Earl of ref1
Armatrading, Joan ref1
An Arrow Against All Tyrants (Overton, R.) ref1
Asa-Asa, Louis ref1
Aske, Robert ref1, ref2
Aswad and the Specials ref1
asylum seeking experiences ref1
‘Aw’s Glad the Strike’s Duin’ (Kerr, T.) ref1
Bacon, Francis ref1
Bairnsfather, Charles Bruce ref1
Baker, Ernest A. ref1
Ball, John ref1
Baptist Missionary Society of Birmingham, Sturge’s speech to (1836) ref1
Barbauld, Anna ref1
Barlow-Kennett, Richard ref1
Barn, Siward ref1
Barrowman, John ref1
Basingstoke Riots (1881) ref1
Beaumaris Eisteddfod ref1
Belloc, Hillaire ref1
Bennion, Francis ref1
Beresford on Battle of Cable Street ref1
Besant, Annie ref1
Besly, Kim (Greenham Common Peace Camp) ref1
Bevan, Aneurin ref1, ref2
Bevin, Ernest ref1
Beyond a Boundary (James C. L. R.) ref1
Billingham, Lee ref1, ref2
Birkenhead, Lord ref1
Birmingham, Dissenters in ref1
‘Black Boys on Mopeds’ (O’Connor, S.) ref1
black emancipation, evangelisation for ref1
Blackwell, Rev. John ref1
Blair, Tony ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Blake, William ref1, ref2
Bleakeley, ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Contents
- An Eminently Skippable Introduction
- Note on the Text
- By Way of a Preface
- 1066–1450: Commoners and Kings
- Disunited Kingdoms: ‘Our English Enemies’
- Freedom of Worship: ‘Touching Our Faith’
- 1642–1789: Representing the People
- Land and Liberty: ‘The Earth Is a Common Treasury’
- Empire and Race: ‘All Slaves Want To Be Free’
- 1790–1860: One Man, One Vote
- Money and Class: ‘The Rank Is But the Guinea’s Stamp’
- Workers United: ‘Labour’s “No” Into Action’
- 1890–1945: Equal Rights
- War and Peace: ‘What People Have Your Battles Slain?’
- Gender and Sexual Equality: ‘A Human Being, Regardless of the Distinction of Sex’
- 1945–2012: Battling the State
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions Acknowledgements
- Permissions Credits
- Chronological Index
- Index
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