Thursday 24th March

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
 

Rowan Cahill and Jeff Sparrow in conversation about “The Barber Who Read History”.

Rowan Cahill and Jeff Sparrow discuss the new book “The Barber Who Read History” and the issues that arise in the book.

Join us at NIBS for a drink at 5pm.

Book available here: https://nibs.org.au/onlinebooks/pre-order-the-barber-who-read-history
Or on the night
About the book:
Essays in Radical History:

Sometimes people read history and are overwhelmed.

They discover a nightmare past of conspiracies and duplicities

Only the doings of powerful people are recorded.

They conclude that history has no room for people like them.

In these essays, Rowan Cahill and Terry Irving show that a knowledge of history can make people want to act in order to make history.

The authors criticise mainstream history for its top-down certainties. Instead, they see history from the bottom-up, acknowledging the productivity and creativity of working people.

They argue for a radical history that reveals uncertainties and challenges, leaving everything, including the future, open.