{"id":4870,"date":"2018-05-10T09:32:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T08:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=4870"},"modified":"2018-05-30T11:52:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T10:52:22","slug":"protest-stories-resistance-wordlife-comma-press-festival-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/protest-stories-resistance-wordlife-comma-press-festival-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Protest: Stories of Resistance\u201d in association with Wordlife and Comma Press at the Festival of Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Protest: Stories of Resistance\u201d (in association with Wordlife and Comma Press)\u00a0was held as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.festivalofdebate.com\/may-2018\/\">Festival of Debate<\/a> on Wednesday 9th May 2018\u00a0between 7:00pm \u2013 9:30pm at The Millennium Gallery, 48 Arundel Gate, Sheffield, S1 2PP.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by author, activist and officer of Stop The War Coalition, John Rees, the evening featured Martyn Bedford and Joanna Quinn reading their stories about the Orgreave and Greenham Common protests, alongside other writers and activists.<\/p>\n<p>Written with historians, sociologists and eyewitnesses, <a href=\"https:\/\/commapress.co.uk\/books\/protest-stories-of-resistance\">the\u00a0anthology<\/a> follows fictional characters caught up in the real-life struggles of the grassroots movements that agitated for change in Britain, offering a street-level perspective on the noble art of resistance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/david-waddington\">Professor David Waddington\u2019s\u00a0<\/a>first-hand knowledge of the miners&#8217; strike was the basis of a short story on the Battle of Orgreave, which is included alongside other fact-based works of fiction in the anthology. 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