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Rowbotham was the original member of The Durutti Column and shared the guitar role with Vini Reilly, being one of first musicians signed by the label ; he was killed by an axe murderer and his body found in his flat in Burnage.
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William John Owen Rowbotham MBE ( 14 March 1914 – 12 July 1999 ), better known as Bill Owen, was an English actor and songwriter.
Brockwell Lido was designed by HA Rowbotham and TL Smithson of the London County Council's Parks Department to replace Brockwell Park bathing pond and is almost identical in design to the Victoria Park Lido.
Dave Rowbotham, former guitarist of local post-punk groups Durutti Column, The Invisible Girls and The Mothmen, lived there in a flat, where, in November 1991, his dead body was found, after being killed by an axe murderer.
In 2007 Rowbotham received the Patrick White Award ; the presentation was made 9 November 2007, in Brisbane.
Rowbotham was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, the daughter of a salesman for an engineering company and an office clerk From an early age, she was deeply interested in history.
Rowbotham was to write that traditional political history “ left her cold ”, but she credited Olga Wilkinson, one of her teachers with encouraging her interest in social history by showing that history “ belonged to the present, not to the history textbooks ”.
Through her involvement in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and various socialist circles including the Labour Party ’ s youth wing, the Young Socialists, Rowbotham was introduced to Karl Marx's ideas.
In the 1960s, Rowbotham was one of the founders and leaders of the History Workshop movement associated with Ruskin College.
Rowbotham was especially influenced by Marxist social history as practiced by E. P. Thompson and his wife Dorothy.
In her 1973 book Women's Consciousness, Men's World, Rowbotham maintained that the domestic household work done by women was a part of commodity production as it allowed the production and reproduction of men's labor.
However, Rowbotham claimed that the human family was not just an instrument for disciplining and subjecting women to capitalism, but was a place where potentially humans could take refuge from what Rowbotham sees as the commodification of human relationships under capitalism In Rowbotham's view, raising children, sexuality and need for human relationship means that the family can rarely be reduced down to a service commoditiy.
The Facebook group Save Sheila Rowbotham was established to campaign for her continuation as a Lecturer.
Frank Rowbotham Foster ( born 31 January 1889, Birmingham, England ; died 3 May 1958, Northampton, England ) was a Warwickshire and England all-rounder whose career was cut short by an accident during World War I.
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Rowbotham is critical of traditional Marxist history for what she sees as the neglect of such issues as family history, the role of housewives in supporting the economy, sexuality, and maternity.
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Modern hypotheses supporting a flat Earth originated with English inventor Samuel Rowbotham ( 1816 – 1884 ).
Rowbotham and his followers, like William Carpenter who continued his work, gained attention by engaging in public debates with leading scientists of the day.
Other critics, such as Michael Rowbotham, equate the practice with counterfeiting, where government-protected privileged private entities ( the banks ) are granted the legal right to create money " out of the nothing " while also being granted the right to charge interest on their creation.
In particular a number of monetary reformers, such as Michael Rowbotham, Stephen Zarlenga and Ellen Brown, support the restriction or banning of fractional-reserve banking ( characterizing it as an illegitimate banking practice akin to embezzlement ) and advocate the replacement of fractional-reserve banking with government-issued debt-free fiat currency issued directly from the Treasury rather than from the quasi-government Federal Reserve.
While attending St. Hilda ’ s College, Rowbotham found her syllabus with its heavy focus on political history to be of no interest to her.
Combining a Marxist analysis with feminism, Rowbotham contends that capitalism not only systematically oppresses the working class, but also particularly oppresses women.
In her 1977 book Dutiful Daughters co-written with Jean McCrindle, Rowbotham interviewed fourteen women of lower-middle class and working class origin.
Though Rowbotham notes that the life stories of women interviewed for Dutiful Daughters were not intended to be representative of all British women, she argues that these snap-shots of different lives if combined with enough other oral histories can provide an understanding of the experience of ordinary women.
In her book Beyond the Fragments co-written with Hilary Wainwright and Lynne Segal, Rowbotham called for the various fractions of the British left to unite, and work for a socialist Britain through grass-roots activism.
* Copelman, D. " Interview with Sheila Rowbotham " pages 49 – 69 from Visions of History edited by H. Abelove, B. Blackmar, P. Dimock and J. Schneer, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1981.
Richard " Bingo " Little falls in love with the daughter of a left-wing, probably, communist or socialist leader called Charlotte Corday Rowbotham.
* Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism ( Merlin Press, 1980 ) ( co-authored with Sheila Rowbotham and Lynne Segal ).
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Rowbotham, Bowers and Joyce went on to form The Mothmen ( the latter two becoming members of Simply Red some years later ), Sharp went on to form The Roaring 80s, SF Jive, and Glow, and also dedicated himself to acting ; only Reilly remained.
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Rowbotham maintains that capitalism and sexism are so closely linked that only one way to destroy both is a radical change in the " cultural conditioning " of humanity as regards child-rearing, homes, laws, and the work.
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The following year, John Thewlis scored the first century for Yorkshire in first-class cricket, against Surrey at The Oval ; in 1869, Joseph Rowbotham became the first man to score two centuries in a season for Yorkshire.
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After the publication of his Selected Poems by Penguin in 1994, covering a period of fifty years, Rowbotham entered a startling late period of productivity which culminated in the publication of the much-lauded Poems for America in 2002.
In such books as Women, Resistance and Revolution ( 1972 ) and Hidden from History ( 1974 ), Rowbotham put her ideas into practice by examining the experience of women in radical and revolutionary movements in Cuba, Algeria, Vietnam, China, Russia, France and Britain from the 17th century to the 20th.
Rowbotham feels that historians have a duty to contribute to social change by writing books that expose what she sees as the evils of society.
As such, Rowbotham is highly critical of those historians who, influenced by theories of French structuralism and post — structuralism, write in a style unlikely to appeal to the general public.
In February 2010, Stockton Hockey Franchise Group, Inc. sold the team to SC Hockey Franchise Corp., headed by Canadian oil executive Brad Rowbotham and the ECHL Board of Governors unanimously approved the transfer of controlling interest in April, 2010.
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