Goodway has had a lifelong engagement with literature and in 1969 was a founder member of the Powys Society, which promotes the appreciation and study particularly of John Cowper Powys.[5] He has edited the correspondence between Powys and the American anarchist Emma Goldman.[6]
david, goodway, born, 1942, british, historian, respected, international, authority, chartism, anarchism, libertarian, socialism, born1942, rugby, warwickshire, englandacademic, backgroundalma, matercorpus, christi, college, oxfordbirkbeck, college, londondoct. David Goodway born 1942 is a British historian and a respected international authority on Chartism and on anarchism and libertarian socialism David GoodwayBorn1942 age 80 81 Rugby Warwickshire EnglandAcademic backgroundAlma materCorpus Christi College OxfordBirkbeck College LondonDoctoral advisorEric HobsbawmAcademic workDisciplineHistorianInstitutionsUniversity of LeedsMain interestsChartism anarchismNotable worksLondon Chartism 1838 1848 1982 For Anarchism 1989 Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow 2006 Contents 1 Life 2 Selected publications 3 References 4 External linksLife editGoodway was born in the English Midlands town of Rugby in September 1942 He studied Philosophy Politics and Economics at Corpus Christi College Oxford 1 His doctoral thesis was supervised by the renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm and formed the basis of his first book on the history of Chartism in London London Chartism an acknowledged classic work on the subject He has had a long running interest in the Chartist George Julian Harney and discovered that a considerable portion of Harney s personal library is held at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee 2 3 He taught at the University of Leeds from 1969 to 2005 4 Goodway has had a lifelong engagement with literature and in 1969 was a founder member of the Powys Society which promotes the appreciation and study particularly of John Cowper Powys 5 He has edited the correspondence between Powys and the American anarchist Emma Goldman 6 He has also written widely about writers in the British left libertarian tradition such as William Morris Alex Comfort Herbert Read George Orwell Colin Ward and Maurice Brinton notably in his book Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow Left Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward In 2015 he became a member of the Friends of Freedom Press Ltd 7 which safeguards the interest of the anarchist publisher the Freedom Press He wrote an appreciation of the anarchist journal Freedom when it stopped regular publication after almost 130 years 8 Selected publications editLondon Chartism 1838 1848 1982 For Anarchism History Theory and Practice editor 1989 Against Power and Death The Anarchist Articles and Pamphlets of Alex Comfort editor 1994 A One Man Manifesto and Other Writings for Freedom Press by Herbert Read editor 1994 Herbert Read Reassessed editor 1998 Talking Anarchy with Colin Ward 2003 2nd edition 2014 For Workers Power The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton editor 2004 2nd edition 2020 Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow Left Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward 2006 2nd edition 2012 The Letters of John Cowper Powys and Emma Goldman editor 2007 Nicolas Walter The Anarchist Past and Other Essays editor 2007 John Cowper Powys The Art of Forgetting the Unpleasant and Other Essays editor 2008 Nicolas Walter Damned Fools in Utopia and Other Writings on Anarchism and War Resistance editor 2011 The Real History of Chartism or eight fallacies about the Chartist movement 2013 George Julian Harney The Chartists were Right selections from the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle 1890 97 editor 2014 G D H Cole Towards a Libertarian Socialism reflections on the British Labour Party and European working class movements editor 2021 References edit David Goodway autobiographical statement Retrieved 7 February 2021 Goodway David 2000 Harney George Julian Dictionary of Labour Biography 10 Goodway David 1984 The Metivier Collection and the Books of George Julian Harney Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History 49 David Goodway personal website Retrieved 7 February 2021 Goodway David 2020 The Foundation and Early Years of the Powys Society Powys Journal 30 Goodway David ed 2007 The letters of John Cowper Powys and Emma Goldman Cecil Woolf Friends of Freedom Press Ltd Companies House Retrieved 7 February 2021 Goodway David 2015 Freedom 1886 2014 An Appreciation History Workshop Journal 79 External links editOfficial website nbsp This article about a British historian or genealogist is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title David Goodway amp oldid 1179627459, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
