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Back to topONSITE EVENT: 'That Devil Wilkes'
Part of our Reds on the Green Programme joint with Islington Heritage; FREE, no booking required
Thursday, 12 September 2024 - 6:30pm
Marx Memorial Library & Workers' School, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London, EC1R 0DU
Contact
Email: m.jump@marx-memorial-library.org.uk
Email: m.jump@marx-memorial-library.org.uk
Phone: 02075231485
• Dr Robin Eagles – author of ‘Champion of English Freedom, the Life of John Wilkes’ – will give a potted biography of John Wilkes, eighteenth century radical journalist, politician and campaigner for free speech and his ties to Clerkenwell Green.
• Dramatic readings of Wilkes’ speeches from actor Michael Elwyn
• A display from the archives at the Marx Memorial Library