Carnage and Courage: The bloody fight for the right to vote | Sheffield Humanists

Explore the vivid, provocative complexities of this issue in an illustrated talk with sceptic, freethinker graphic novelist Polyp, whose controversial and verbatim new book COURAGE: Luddites - Peterloo - Chartists - Suffragettes aims to put the history of the fight for democracy in a challenging new light, one that resonates deeply with the moral dilemmas of modern political protests and conflicts.

The speaker: Paul Fitzgerald (AKA Polyp) is the author of thINK, a book of his scepticism cartoons, PETERLOO: Witnesses to a Massacre and PAINE: a Fantastical Visual Biography. He is the founder and chair of the Peterloo Memorial Campaign in Manchester.