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Dream Weavers festival promotes a future of equity and justice
Graphic novel illuminates Thomas Paine’s revolutionary life and legacy
The radical free thinker’s life is depicted in Paul Fitzgerald’s new graphic novel PAINE. The author answers The Meteor’s questions on Paine’s pivotal role in the American Revolution, how he fell foul of the French Revolution, and what the arch anti-royalist would have made of the Queens Platinum Jubilee.
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