Semi-retired British writer. Still doing Morning Star, Fortean Times, short stories. Weekly strange history newsletter: 'Rebel Britannia' https://rebelbrit.subs
Joined September 2011
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Rebel Britannia Vol 1 - an ebook collecting the first 100 weekly columns is now available from most ebook sellers and libraries, books2read.com/u/bWV98G. Price £10, $13-50
From boy preacher in Aberystwyth to hero of the revolution in South Africa to burial in Moscow - the short, eventful life of David Ivon Jones, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/reb…
Reviews of Isabel J. Kim, Richard Swan, Jaclyn Moriarty, in the Morning Star SF round-up: morningstaronline.co.uk/arti…
Britain's biggest terrorist - and pantomime star. Kitty Marion, bomber, arsonist and birth control advocate, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/reb…
Reviews of Mattea Orr, Liza Cody, Simon McCleave, Chris Hammer, in the Morning Star crime fiction column:
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From Karl Marx to Dame Edna Everage in just a hundred years - via a famous address in Soho: 18 Greek Street. This week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/reb…
Coster Joe, the Music Hall War, and the Beneficent Order of Terriers - the man who invented modern ventriloquism was a trade union leader, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/reb…
How illegally electing an MP for a town that had no MPs got "the bugleman of the radicals" eighteen months in prison - this week's Rebel Britannia rebelbrit.substack.com/p/reb…
The biggest mass trespass in British history, when 10,000 Boltonians invaded a grouse shoot - Winter Hill, 1896, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/reb…
Reviews of Adele Parks, David Weir, CJ Parsons, Ryan Lowell, in the Morning Star's crime fiction column: morningstaronline.co.uk/arti…
The ridiculously eventful, short life of Edinburgh lawyer and reformist Thomas Muir: transported to Australia, escaped, got hit in the face by a cannonball, escaped again, prisoner-of-war, briefly a minor hero of the French Revolution, in Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/reb…
Well that's a bit of spring cleaning I should have done long ago. For the first time in years I've sorted out my website matcoward.com, getting rid of out-of-print books and replacing all the ebook links with Universal Links.
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Le festival de photo de sport de Deauville cède aux pressions pro-israéliennes et retire une photo prise à Gaza
➡️ l.humanite.fr/ADe
The great anti-kneeling rebellion - the kirk, the king and the hassocks, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/reb…
Mat Coward retweeted
Looks like some really fierce tutting might be going on.
UK, France, Germany, Italy and Canada condemn Israel's West Bank settlement project bbc.in/46ccEDz
"Owd Nancy"of Ashton-under-Lyne, the Peterloo petticoat flown as a black flag of revolution, "potatoe pies and home-brewed ale," the chief constable and a game of hide-the-liberty-cap - in this week's Rebel Britannia rebelbrit.substack.com/p/reb…
I fear the phrase "disposable barbecues" will hang round @andyburnham's neck the way "son of a toolmaker" did for Starmer.
Reviews of Jonathan Sims, Joseph Eckert, Meg Charlton in the Morning Star SF column:
morningstaronline.co.uk/arti…
The London statue whose hands are always blood-red, in this week's Rebel Britannia:
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