"Jeff Sparrow and Jill Sparrow have produced a brilliantly original, long overdue unveiling of a great city's true past. Behind Melbourne's old and new mercantile facade, they have unearthed a people's story of struggle, despair and triumph." John Pilger
You are invited to join VTHC Secretary Leigh Hubbard at the launch the new Vulgar Press title, Jeff Sparrow and Jill Sparrow's Radical Melbourne: A Secret History (with a foreword by Stuart Macintyre). Radical Melbourne presents a guide through the first hundred years of political radicalism in Melbourne, focusing on the structures, streets and public places that remain today. It concentrates on identifying the physical traces of radical Melbourne, in the hope that geographical familiarity will provide a cultural and political bridge between the struggles of the past and the people of the present. Radical Melbourne is a secret history of Melbourne, illustrated by rarely-seen images from the archives of the State Library of Victoria. The State Library is the book's major sponsor and has allowed the authors access to and use of over 80 fascinating historical images never before published in an historical work. The present-day images of the old sites offer startling and sometimes poignant visual contrasts. 6pm for 6.30 pm Friday Nov 16th Trades Hall Bar Cnr Victoria and Lygon St Carlton Sth RSVP on 9662 3744 Radical Melbourne 224pp 255mm x 190mm 134 illustrations ISBN 0 9577352 4 3 Jeff Sparrow Coordinator New International Book Co-operative Box 18 Trades Hall 54 Victoria St Carlton Sth 3053 tel 03 9662 3744 fax 03 9663 4755 to receive regular updates about bookshop events, click below http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nib-announce -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
