Fiday 17th June is the longest Friday of the year and we will be kicking off Bike Week for CycleSheffield. The theme of this ride is Free Love and Socialism: a ride to see the Millthorpe house where Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) - a nationally and internationally renowned radical, socialist activist, writer and thinker, advocate of free love, early gay activist and ‘bohemian’, – and sandalmaker – lived from the 1880s to the 1920s.
Edward Carpenter
Wear some sandals; the other stuff is optional! It's FNR’s 3rd birthday so bubbly and snacks too. Trying to get a short talk at Millthorpe booked like we had for the Ruskin ride last year. Pub stop at Millthorpe or thereabouts (full Moon 15 Jun).
More info:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Edward_Carpenter
http://www.edwardcarpenter.net/ecbiog.htm
There is a campaign to raise funds to put up a memorial/statue in Sheffield
in recognition of Carpenter and his work and influence:
http://www.friendsofedwardcarpenter.co.uk/
There’s a good concise biography of Carpenter on the above site. Perhaps some of them may join us and some of us may join them and maybe we can have a whip round for the fund on the ride.
If you’ve got time have a look at Sheila Rowbotham’s “Edward Carpenter: a life of liberty and love” London, Verso 2008 and David Price’s “Sheffield Troublemakers: Rebels and Radicals in Sheffield History” Chichester, Phillimore 2008 - both in the Central Library.
Route: http://tinyurl.com/3fm93w2
More: http://www.sfnr.org.uk/thye-next-sheffield-fnr/
More info:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Edward_Carpenter http://www.edwardcarpenter.net/ecbiog.htm There is a campaign to raise funds to put up a memorial/statue in Sheffield
in recognition of Carpenter and his work and influence:
http://www.friendsofedwardcarpenter.co.uk/ There’s a good concise biography of Carpenter on the above site. Perhaps some of them may join us and some of us may join them and maybe we can have a whip round for the fund on the ride.
If you’ve got time have a look at Sheila Rowbotham’s “Edward Carpenter: a life of liberty and love” London, Verso 2008 and David Price’s “Sheffield Troublemakers: Rebels and Radicals in Sheffield History” Chichester, Phillimore 2008 - both in the Central Library.
Route:
http://tinyurl.com/3fm93w2 More:
http://www.sfnr.org.uk/thye-next-sheffield-fnr/
