09 May 2006
for k-punk
Blackheath, SE3, for a recent saunter in revolutionary history (occupied on the day by a fairground and circus - but no arcades, thus lacking the opportunity to spend an entire week's food budget on shiny shuffling machines). Birthplace of suffragete Emily Wilding Davison, born in 1872 (she of the possibly-unintentional-self-chucking-under-horse at the Epsom Derby in 1913), and camp-site of fantastic rebellions - the Peasant's Revolt in 1381 and Jack Cade's rebellion of 1450. From the Heath, London STILL appears ready for the taking. Even with the utterly bizarre visual imposition of the hazy gleam of Canary Wharf on the horizon, like something out of a badly-dubbed Japanese kids' cartoon...
To Halcyon Books in Greenwich, who seem perpetually determined to smother their politics section with a large pile of unpriced tat, where an extremely large and important selection of really-quite-famous Marxist historian Gareth Steadman Jones's library seems to have been left (shouldn't these things be left to public libraries, one wonders) - If you're after any key left phil/pol text from the last thirty years, I'd get down there quickly...though I must admit I bought all the books on Feuerbach already, sorry.
