Francesca Newton
Online Editor at Tribune Magazine
Writing and editing @tribunemagazine, @_vashtimedia and elsewhere. Currently in Naarm/Melbourne.
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2 months ago |
tribunemag.co.uk | Francesca Newton
In a July day in 1795, a crowd of women approached a bread cart on a road outside Delph, near Manchester. The cart was stopped and the loaves in it taken. Its driver, Richard Broome, probably thought he was being robbed, but then the bread was sold to onlookers for two pence a pound and the takings placed back into his hands.
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2 months ago |
vashtimedia.com | Francesca Newton |Evan Robins |Annabel Cohen
The Pickle — 4 min read Earlier this week, Israel’s police arrested Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna – the owner and his nephew, respectively, of the Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem – and raided two of their shops. (Mahmoud is the co-editor of Daybreak in Gaza, from which Vashti published an excerpt last October). The police confiscated dozens of the shop’s Arabic and English books, looking for anything with the word Palestine or the Palestinian flag.
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2 months ago |
tribunemag.co.uk | Francesca Newton
In a July day in 1795, a crowd of women approached a bread cart on a road outside Delph, near Manchester. The cart was stopped and the loaves in it taken. Its driver, Richard Broome, probably thought he was being robbed, but then the bread was sold to onlookers for two pence a pound and […] In a July day in 1795, a crowd of women approached a bread cart on a road outside Delph, near Manchester. The cart was stopped and the loaves in it taken.
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Jan 22, 2025 |
vashtimedia.com | Kendall Gardner |Kate Greenberg |Yarden Gur |Francesca Newton
Of the writing of books on antisemitism there is no end, as Kohelet might have said had he lived in the 2020s. And verily, there has been an enormous outpouring of words on the subject in the last decade or so. Many of those words have been journalistic, ephemeral and not very analytic. But in recent years, quite a few have made it into book and report form, making it easier to examine them for their positions, assumptions and approaches. Such writing can be divided into three broad categories.
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Jan 17, 2025 |
vashtimedia.com | Kate Greenberg |Yarden Gur |Francesca Newton |D. L. Katz
The Pickle — 3 min read “I don’t believe it. I can’t believe we’re still alive,” was the message I received from Hadeel Wael Qassem, a 22-year-old pharmacy student living in central Gaza with twelve members of her family. In the hours that followed, she sent me videos of celebrations in the streets.
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RT @tribunemagazine: Tribune is pleased to announce that socialist writer and academic Alex Niven (@Alex_Niven) will be joining as its new…
My piece on the 1795 price-fixing riots is now free to read online, featuring this apparently evergreen letter from the Minister of Colne to the newly-formed Home Office in 1800: https://t.co/7AxVubxUbt
In 1795, English women facing starvation organised to seize food supplies and distribute them for an honest price — making the case for a system that placed community need above individual profit. https://t.co/wP0yABMaqq
