St Mark’s Church and By the Book Drama Group are performing a dramatised play reading of a new play about Sheffield’s most famous Chartist revolutionary, Samuel Holberry, written by David Price, author of Sheffield Troublemakers: Rebels and Radicals in Sheffield History.
A history of land rights and protest in folk song and story, the show connects the Norman Conquest and Peasants’ Revolt with current issues like the housing crisis, reparations, climate breakdown and food sovereignty via the Enclosures, English Civil War and Industrial Revolution.