Join us in discovering the real story of the courageous, desperate struggle behind our rights to vote in the UK, through this illustrated and engaging talk. Discover how this history has been seriously sanitized, whitewashing out the shocking and ethically bewildering amount of violence involved.

Did you know:

• The machine breaking Luddites were collecting weapons for an armed insurrection, and shot an unarmed opponent in the street?
• During the Peterloo Massacre, several of the regular troops threatened to kill the amateur yeomanry soldiers, who were physically abusing the democracy marchers?
• The 'moral force' Chartists advised their activists to buy weapons and build pikes, and fought troops during the Newport Rising?
• The Suffragettes invented the postal bomb, and often targeted the public with explosive devices, expelling those who challenged those actions?

Explore the vivid, provocative complexities of this issue in an illustrated talk with skeptic, freethinker graphic novelist Polyp, whose controversial and verbatim new book COURAGE: Luddites - Peterloo - Chartists - Suffragettes aims to put the history of the fight for democracy in a challenging new light, one that resonates deeply with the moral dilemmas of modern political protests and conflicts.

Our speaker:

Paul Fitzgerald (AKA Polyp) is the author of thINK, a book of his skepticism cartoons, PETERLOO: Witnesses to a Massacre and PAINE: a Fantastical Visual Biography. He is the founder and chair of the Peterloo Memorial Campaign in Manchester.

Our venue

Farm Road Sports & Social Club has free parking and is a ten-minute walk from the Sheffield train station and bus interchange. When arriving please press the buzzer at the door to be let in and head for the "Concert Room".

Feel free to pick up a drink at the bar and bring it in, but please arrive early to avoid the queue at the bar.