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Tom Paine’s rights are read... in a pub
CAMPAIGNING socialist Tony Benn joined writers and artists at an Angel theatre this week to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of radical thinker Thomas Paine.
The former Labour MP led tributes to the author at the Old Red Lion, St John Street, where Paine wrote part of his landmark work, The Rights of Man.
Gareth Evans, organiser of Monday’s event, These Are The Times – Tom Paine Remembered, described Paine as “one of the most influential English writers, thinkers and activists of the last millennium”, whose contribution to politics and society had been largely ignored by the modern age.
The evening featured rehearsed readings of Jack Shepherd’s play, In Lambeth, in which a meeting between William Blake and Tom Paine is imagined.
Sculptor Michael Sandle, publisher Tony Simpson, writer Mike Marqusee and the musician Elizabeth Green were among those to discuss Paine’s enduring legacy. |
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