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Acknowledgements

This book has obscure origins in an idea that David Shonfield once suggested for a ‘Radical Walks in Britain’ guide. We suggested it to Tariq Ali, and then we all forgot about it for a couple of years. Tariq recalled the plan and transmuted it into an offer to write this book. Tom Penn, Leo Hollis and Dan Hind at Verso have made it happen. We are grateful to all of them. We are indebted to Neil Faulkner, who knows a lot about most things and something about everything; we have plundered his knowledge without restraint. Dominic Alexander’s knowledge of the medieval world was put at our service and the relevant chapter would clearly be poorer without it. David Shonfield provided many insights and suggestions as he read the draft. Our long-time comrades and friends at the Stop the War Coalition, Chris Nineham, Andrew Murray, and Andrew Burgin read and commented on the whole book with their usual kindness and perspicacity. Kate Connolly was generous with her marvellous work on the Suffragette movement and Peter Morgan supplied the Oscar Wilde story. Jane Shallice, Feyzi Ismail, Mike Simons, Paul Cunningham and John Westmoreland have all been generous with encouragement and suggestions along the way. We are very grateful to all of them.

John Rees

Lindsey German

London, 5 November 2011