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| Name: Harold Curry From: New Zealand E-mail: Contact |
'The Money Trick' as described in the book is essential reading in understanding the current financial worries... the so called 'real' economy isn't that real either! The credit crisis is a trick on a trick. What would Noonan have said about our bankers today??
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| Name: Gerry Glyde From: Gateshead E-mail: Contact |
I should have added that having undertaken some family reasearch I have discovered that my great x4 grandfather was a Gas Company Engineer and manager. He had retired by the time RT was writing but was living in the next street. Other relatives were builders and possibly therefore employers and lived around the West Hill in Hastings so may have been some of the employers that were the fictionalised in the book. I have done my best to recompense and served on the RT Memorial Commitee between Hastings & Liverpool Trades Council in the mid 1970's
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| Name: gerry glyde From: Gateshead E-mail: Contact |
Good site. Young people should be exposed to the communal values put forward in the book rather than worshipping the god of consumerism and possessing something better than others
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| Name: Damien From: Northampton ,uk E-mail: Contact |
I just want to note how much this book means to me and thank my brother for recommemnding it to me . I can not belive that i was "schooled" for fourteen years and left having never heard of this incredible book. it has given me the courage to quit my job and return to full time education , partly to see if there are any more books of such magnitude in print. If anyone has any futher recomemdations i would be gratefull for them.My email is Damien_myers@hotmail.com
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| Name: Lisa Smaldon From: Wales E-mail: Contact |
Robert Tressell's work is a part of my family folklore. My grandparents introduced his book to my father and my father, in turn, introduced it to me.When they are old enough I will introduce it to my daughters. It is that rarest of things, a work of great wisdom and truth written by a working class man who had none of the oppurtunity for contemplation and writing that middle class privilege brings. His work is nothing short of a national treasure and its true value is still unfolding politically and socially. Given the current financial bank crisis. Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling would do well to reread Robert Tressell's 'Bread Trick' as it is without doubt the best explaination of the capitalist system ever writtten.
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| Name: Ian Hayward From: Canada/Sussex/Warwickshire! E-mail: Contact |
I only managed to attend one festival in 2001 with the brilliant SDF meeting on the beach and the tour on "Happy Harold", but I will aim to get to the 2009 one. Is the Society still sponsored by the GMB? I elected to join a union recently (about bloody time!), and chose GMB mainly on the strenghth of their support. Any thoughts on the BBC R4 production?
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| Name: Prenny Stanley From: Bournemouth E-mail: Contact |
If anyone is interested I am doing a talk on The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tommorow at ETC Language School, 24 West Hill Road, Bournemouth, as part of Bournemouth Literary Festival. It is £4 admission at the door. In part it will be a personal view/ testimonty to how the book has impacted on my views and life, and also give a postcolonial perspective, looking at race and class (amongst other things). I know I am publicising this late in the day, but I left the publicity to the festival organisers who clearly did not know about this site. Anyway, if anyone wants to turn up they will be welcome. By the way, interested to see that Fred Ball's grandaughter has left a message here. She can be proud of her grandad, for all the work he did in rescuing the manuscript of this remarkable book.
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| Name: Kelly Smith From: Hastings E-mail: Contact |
Hi, I found your site when I was googling my grandfather who wrote, One of the Damned: The Life and Times of Robert Tressell, F C Ball.
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| Name: John Kerrigan From: Walton. Liverpool E-mail: Contact |
I only recently learned of the death of that great champion of the life and times of Robert Noonan - John Nettleton. John was a true working class hero, who exemplified the message that was at the core of the Ragged Trousered Philanthropist,although he would be the first to deny it. For those who didn't know John, It was very largely due to his diligent searching, and his tireless work behind the scene, that Noonan's paupers grave was eventually found, and his memoral stone erected. John Nettleton RIP.
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| Name: Gerry Glyde From: Gateshead E-mail: Contact |
Hello to Terry Randell. After many years away from Hastings I wish you well. Can you you be proud to have a copy of the RTP signed by Tony Blair? He seems to stand for all of the values that Tressell would have disliked. Blair had privatised many things that Thatcher shied away from and Brown et al are continuing with the same Gerry formerly a member and officer of Hastings LP for many years (colin5465@hotmail.com)
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