A Modest Proposal

ANGUS REID is an independent artist.  His films include Brotherly Love, The Ring (Best Central European Documentary Feature 2004) and Primary School Musical!’. His books include three collections of poetry: The Gift, White Medicine and The Book of Days.  He lives and works in Edinburgh. www.angusreid.co.uk MARY DAVIS is Professor of Labour History formerly at London Metropolitan University. She is now a Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has written, broadcast and lectured widely on women’s history, labour history, imperialism and racism. Her published books include Comrade or Brother? A history of the British Labour Movement 1789-1951(2009); Marxism & Struggle (1998); Fashioning a New World: a history of the Woodcraft Folk (2000), Sylvia Pankhurst: a life in Radical Politics (1999) and Class & Gender in British Labour History (2011). She was a recipient of the TUC Women’s Gold Badge in 2010.