An exhibition of letters and posters from the Robert Tressell family archives forming part of The Writeidea Festival 2011, a literary festival in taking place in Tower Hamlets library's (or Idea Store's as they are called nowadays) in East London, more info at http://www.ideastore.co.uk/.
The Ragged Trousered Philamthropists is one of my favourite books, one of the great working class, socialist novels (to be fair there aren't many). I'm old enough to remember when many Labour MP's named it as the most influential book on their political beliefs. I'd like to be able to tell you that the exhibition is worth travelling great distances for, but to be honest it's very small, just a few posters and some letters from leftie celebs (Tony Benn, Tony Blair) explaining why the book is important to them. Unless you're desperate to see the exhibition your time would probably be better spent reading (or re-reading) the book.
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