Modest Proposal

ANGUS REID is an independent artist.  His films include Brotherly Love, The Ring (Best Central European Documentary Feature 2004) and Primary School Musical!’. His books include three collections of poetry: The Gift, White Medicine and The Book of Days.  He lives and works in Edinburgh. www.angusreid.co.ukMARY DAVIS is Professor of Labour History formerly at London Metropolitan University. She is now a Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has written, broadcast and lectured widely on women’s history, labour history, imperialism and racism. Her published books include Comrade or Brother? A history of the British Labour Movement 1789-1951(2009); Marxism & Struggle (1998); Fashioning a New World: a history of the Woodcraft Folk (2000), Sylvia Pankhurst: a life in Radical Politics (1999) and Class & Gender in British Labour History (2011). She was a recipient of the TUC Women’s Gold Badge in 2010.

• Prologue 7Call for a Constitution 9Introduction 11chapter 1 The Words 21chapter 2 The Journey 43Map 44Responses 47Schools 80chapter 3 The Past 93The English Revolution, 1647 to 1649 96The Workers’ Story, 1910 to 1918 104For Women, 1914 to the present day 111chapter 4 Considering a Constitution 129A socialist view 131A view from a former Government insider 140A view from Iceland 146A view from the Red Paper Collective 154A view across the Meadows 162chapter 5 Epilogue: The White Paper 171Acknowledgements 184Contributors 185Bibliography 188Petition 190