Trousered

Tony Benn commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Robert Tressell An antidote to despair, 3 February, saying "this book The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists should be read and studied by this generation if we are to make progress, for there is no other way".

Letter: The Tressell trail 2011

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Love Is a Many Trousered Thing by Louise Rennison: Book summary 2010

Rereading: On the centenary of the death of Robert Tressell, Howard Brenton celebrates the author's most famous work, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – a working-class Vanity Fair – which he adapted into a play

Letter: The Tressell trail 2011

Vegas has a sweetness I adore and I loved him for his choice of book (The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists) and his luxury (a kiln; he has a degree in ceramics).

Rewind radio: The Brown Years; Desert Island Discs; Craig Brown's Lost Diaries Rachel Cooke 2010

When reading, say, 1984, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists or Brave New World, it's the politics that provides the living pulse of the story.

Where has political fiction gone? 2010

There's no secret about Robert Tressell's intentions in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist, published in 1914, a year after the first staging of Pygmalion.

Spur of the Moment; Pygmalion; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist; The Magical Menagerie 2010

And highlights a rather awkward truth which the likes of the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists somehow endeavoured to ignore.

Labour Pains juliette 2009

And highlights a rather awkward truth which the likes of the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists somehow endeavoured to ignore.

Archive 2009-06-01 juliette 2009

And, back to Louise Rennison, the latest Georgia book has been translated from Luuurve is a Many Trousered Thing to the plainer Love is a Many Trousered Thing, but fully retains its trousers.

Guest Blog: Luisa Plaja 2008

This isn't the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, people.

Class Clowns juliette 2008