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Firing a Shot for Freedom by Frida Stewart
Memoirs of inspirational woman activist who lived through many momentous 20th-century events
KEVIN DONNELLY suggests that the task of transforming cultural spaces is far from over and that photography still has a key role to play
RITA DI SANTO talks to Scottish-Irish filmmaker MARK COUSINS about his new panorama of world cinema The Story of Documentary Film
ALAN MORRISON welcomes a new collection from the most imaginative and committed ecopoet of our time
CAL McBRIDE relishes the lyrical truth of an unstable identity in an over-tidy and conventional social realist treatment
New releases from Shearwater, Florry, and Navy Blue
CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
BORN in 1911 in Cambridge, Frida Stewart enjoyed a sheltered and privileged childhood.
But, conscious of the widespread poverty and unemployment of the 1930s, she took a job organising music and drama in Ancoats.
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