null Skip to main content

2 for £15 on selected paperbacks | Free UK P&P on orders over £25

Speakers' Corner

Debate, Democracy and Disturbing the Peace

Format: Paperback
£14.99

GXC

Speakers’ Corner is a unique look at the people who come to argue, discuss and preach at Speakers’ Corner in London’s Hyde Park, regarded worldwide as the home of free speech. Many of the photographs, taken on Sunday afternoons stretching back almost four decades and published here for the first time, are accompanied by excerpts of speeches, heckles, arguments and debates which are, by turns, intriguing, shocking, politically incorrect – and often very funny. In an age in which broadcasters and newspaper editors largely set the parameters of public discussion, such unmediated face-to-face public debate is rare and offers a very different perspective on ‘public opinion’. The speakers and hecklers recorded here, whether serious or light-hearted, religious or profane, are the vibrant heirs of the nineteenth-century campaigners who fought for, and won, the rights to freedom of expression and assembly – vital elements of our democratic tradition.

Write a Review

There are no reviews for this product yet - be the first

Year Published:
2015
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780750961066
Publication Date:
04/05/2015
Publisher:
The History Press Ltd
Authors:
Wolmuth, Philip
Illustrations Note:
100 Illustrations, black and white
Publication Date:
04/05/2015
Place of Publication:
Stroud
Language:
English
SKU:
9780750961066

Customers also bought