WhitLit author event and discussion
The Whitstable School on Friday 16 October
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From mass demonstrations and workplace struggles to campaigns for democratic rights and social justice, history is shaped not only by those in power but by those who challenge it.
To celebrate his newly updated definitive radical travel guide to London, Rebel Footprints, historian and author David Rosenberg explores the movements, activists and ordinary people who fought to change society. Through stories of rebellion, solidarity and collective action, he uncovers hidden histories of protest and resistance, revealing how generations of campaigners confronted inequality, expanded freedoms and left their mark on the world around them.
Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of social movements in the capital. Transporting readers from well-known landmarks to history-making hidden corners, David Rosenberg tells the story of protest and struggle in London from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
From the suffragettes to the socialists, from the Chartists to the trade unionists, the book invites us to step into the footprints of a diverse cast of dedicated fighters for social justice. David Rosenberg invites us to see London as you never have before: the nation’s capital as its radical centre.
Join us for this special WhitLit event and discussion with David Rosenberg.
Tickets £10-£12 from www.whitlit.org
David Rosenberg: Protest, Power and the People
The Stage Theatre at The Whitstable School
Bellevue Road,
Whitstable CT5 1PX
Friday 16 October 2026,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
David Rosenberg
David Rosenberg is an educator, writer, and tour guide of London’s radical history who has taught at Bishopsgate Institute and other adult education institutions for several years. He is a grandchild of Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from Poland and Ukraine who settled in the East End of London. In the 1980s he worked for projects and organisations concerned with race equality, including the Runnymede Trust.
David Rosenberg is the author of Battle for the East End (2011) and Rebel Footprints, and has written articles on London’s social history and current affairs for various print and online publications, including the Guardian, New Statesman, Time Out, Jewish Quarterly, and Channel 4’s History website.
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