Free Love and Socialism Cycle Ride: 17th June
Slow Hand | 22.05.2011 16:39 | Culture | History | Workers' Movements | Sheffield
Fiday 17th June is the longest Friday of the year and we will be kicking off Bike Week for CycleSheffield. The theme of this ride is Free Love and Socialism: a ride to see the Millthorpe house where Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) - a nationally and internationally renowned radical, socialist activist, writer and thinker, advocate of free love, early gay activist and ‘bohemian’, – and sandalmaker – lived from the 1880s to the 1920s.
Edward Carpenter
Wear some sandals; the other stuff is optional! It's FNR’s 3rd birthday so bubbly and snacks too. Trying to get a short talk at Millthorpe booked like we had for the Ruskin ride last year. Pub stop at Millthorpe or thereabouts (full Moon 15 Jun).
More info:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Edward_Carpenter
http://www.edwardcarpenter.net/ecbiog.htm
There is a campaign to raise funds to put up a memorial/statue in Sheffield
in recognition of Carpenter and his work and influence:
http://www.friendsofedwardcarpenter.co.uk/
There’s a good concise biography of Carpenter on the above site. Perhaps some of them may join us and some of us may join them and maybe we can have a whip round for the fund on the ride.
If you’ve got time have a look at Sheila Rowbotham’s “Edward Carpenter: a life of liberty and love” London, Verso 2008 and David Price’s “Sheffield Troublemakers: Rebels and Radicals in Sheffield History” Chichester, Phillimore 2008 - both in the Central Library.
Route: http://tinyurl.com/3fm93w2
More: http://www.sfnr.org.uk/thye-next-sheffield-fnr/
More info:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Edward_Carpenter http://www.edwardcarpenter.net/ecbiog.htm There is a campaign to raise funds to put up a memorial/statue in Sheffield
in recognition of Carpenter and his work and influence:
http://www.friendsofedwardcarpenter.co.uk/ There’s a good concise biography of Carpenter on the above site. Perhaps some of them may join us and some of us may join them and maybe we can have a whip round for the fund on the ride.
If you’ve got time have a look at Sheila Rowbotham’s “Edward Carpenter: a life of liberty and love” London, Verso 2008 and David Price’s “Sheffield Troublemakers: Rebels and Radicals in Sheffield History” Chichester, Phillimore 2008 - both in the Central Library.
Route:
http://tinyurl.com/3fm93w2 More:
http://www.sfnr.org.uk/thye-next-sheffield-fnr/
Slow Hand