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Further Details Title: Speakers' Corner Condition: New EAN: 9780750961066 ISBN: 9780750961066 Publisher: The History Press Ltd Format: Paperback Release Date: 05/04/2015 Item Height: 226mm Item Length: 248mm Author: Philip Wolmuth Language: English Subtitle: Debate, Democracy and Disturbing the Peace Description: Speakers’ Corner is a unique look at the people who come to argue, discuss and preach at Speakers’ Corner in London’s Hyde Park, regarded worldwide as the home of free speech. Many of the photographs, taken on Sunday afternoons stretching back almost four decades and published here for the first time, are accompanied by excerpts of speeches, heckles, arguments and debates which are, by turns, intriguing, shocking, politically incorrect – and often very funny. In an age in which broadcasters and newspaper editors largely set the parameters of public discussion, such unmediated face-to-face public debate is rare and offers a very different perspective on ‘public opinion’. The speakers and hecklers recorded here, whether serious or light-hearted, religious or profane, are the vibrant heirs of the nineteenth-century campaigners who fought for, and won, the rights to freedom of expression and assembly – vital elements of our democratic tradition. Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Genre: History Topic: Law & Politics Release Year: 2015 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.