The Nicolas Walter Memorial Lecture

We will be paying tribute to the anarchist/athiest writer and activist Nicolas Walter.

The Child at Play by 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.

The Nicolas Walter Memorial Lecture will be given by Ken Worpole. Nicolas Walter was a major figure in the anarchist and freethought movements. He was a member of the Spies for Peace and the Committee of 100, and was long associated with Conway Hall. His book "The Anarchist Past and other essays" is published by Five Leaves.

Ken Worpole (www.worpole.net) is one of Britain's most influential writers on architecture, landscape and urban social policy issues. A new edition of his book on working class reading and writing, "Dockers and Detectives", is published by Five Leaves.