Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 'The Good-Looking Bookseller and the Ugly Society' Bill Sutton and the People's Bookshop
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'In response to the Russian Revolution, the Great Depression and two World Wars, communist and left-wing bookshops proliferated in Australia through most of the twentieth century. There were bookshops in all the capital caries, the largest of which were intervention' in Sydney, the 'International' in Melbourne, and the 'People's Bookshop' in Brisbane. Here the focus is on the "People's Bookshop' and the role played by its last full-time manager, Bill Sutton, highlighting the particular and passionate nature of Queensland left-wing politics leading up to and after his appointment in 1966.' (Introduction)
 

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    y separately published work icon The Queensland Journal of Labour History no. 31 Spring/Summer 2020 20825379 2020 periodical issue 'In the last issue of our journal, published in April 2020, appeared during the Covid-19 lockdown in Queensland. The BLHA Executive ceased all meetings and cancelled all events planned for the rest of the year, including the annual Alex Macdonald Memorial Lecture.' (Dean Wharton, Editorial Introduction) 2020 pg. 7-18
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