Question 7:

Which library soon to be relocated keeps it’s name after locals protested against the name change?

6 Comments

1. 

   gcar 6 January 2011, 1:32 pm

   Councillor James Library? It’s a good name.

2. 

   ewebber 6 January 2011, 1:33 pm

   @gcar I’ll give you that, but it isn’t Councillor it’s CLR James, CLR being his initialsSo, who was CLR James?

3. 

   gcar 6 January 2011, 1:33 pm

   Beats Dalston Library any day.

4. 

   gcar 6 January 2011, 1:34 pm

   Trotskyist Playright. I actually though he had been a member of Hackney Coucil. Durrr.

5. 

   ewebber 6 January 2011, 1:37 pm

   @gcar yup – as well as historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist

6. 

   gcar 6 January 2011, 1:38 pm

   He fitted a lot in. Just naming a room after him in the new library is a bit off.

Comments are now closed for this post.