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Servants of the Queen of the Fairies, 1450 - origin story: a rebuke at Penshurst

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posted on 2023-06-10, 04:43 authored by Carl GriffinCarl Griffin
The superhero of comic books and blockbuster movies may be a quintessentially American invention, forever saving the world in skin-tight spandex. But the cultural DNA of the superhero can arguably be traced to a much older, more progressive, British tradition: the larger-than-life folk heroes of historical protests – General Ludd, Captain Swing, Lady Skimmington, and others; semi-fictional identities that ordinary protestors adopted, often dressing up in the process. In this unique experiment, twelve authors have been tasked with resurrecting that tradition: to spawn a new generation of present-day British superheroes, willing to bring the fight back to British shores and to more progressive causes. From the dimension-jumping statue-toppler, to the shape-shifting single mum raiding supermarkets to stock local foodbanks... these figures offer unlikely new insights into shared, centuries-old political causes, and usher in a new league of proud, British (social justice) warriors...

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  • Published

Publisher

Comma Press

Page range

173-179

Pages

176.0

Book title

The Cuckoo Cage: The AKA's

Place of publication

London

ISBN

9781912697403

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  • Geography Publications

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Ra Page

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2022-09-13

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