THE NICOLAS WALTER MEMORIAL LECTURE
1968 And All That, 10 May 2008
South Place Ethical Society, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1
The Child at Play
Ken Worpole
Images of children at play in the streets and on the bomb-sites of post-war Europe created a new sensibility around childhood and notions of a better world to be made. Children's street games anticipated the reclamation of the streets as a domain of liberty well in advance of the events of 1968. Ken Worpole looks at the role that photographers such as Nigel Henderson, Roger Mayne, Bert Hardy, Jimmy Forsythe and song collectors such as the Opies and JTR Ritchie played in shaping a vision of childhood as a realm of liberty and freedom of expression, which set the tone for free politics in the 1960s.
2pm, Library, Free Admission
Ken Worpole is a writer on architecture, landscape and public policy. A new edition of his
study of radical fiction, Dockers & Detectives, has just been re-published
by Five Leaves Publications.
Nicolas Walter (1934 - 2000) was an anarchist, secularist and writer on
social questions. His book, The Anarchist Past and other essays, is
published by Five Leaves Publications.
"1968 and all that" is a day of celebration - one, two, many meetings - and an all day book fair. Full details on www.1968andallthat.net
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