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'Free' in three local stories: a school-travel question, a football-shirt offer, and Mujeres Libres

Between 18 and 20 September, the word 'free' appeared in an otherwise unrelated council travel decision in Wiltshire, a Bristol City FC promotion, and a Bristol Radical History Group talk on Spanish anarchist women.

BBC News Wiltshire reported on free school travel for SEND teenagers, quoting councillors who said it is 'vital' people share their views before a final decision is made [1][3]. Bristol Radical History Group publicised an event at which Italian historian and writer Isabella Lorusso presents her research on Spanish anarchist women active in the Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI) who set up their own autonomous anarchist-feminist organisation, Mujeres Libres—a name the post glosses as 'Free' [4].

Read together, the same word appears in three distinct registers: a council travel decision, a football-club offer, and the name of a historical women's organisation.

Sources

  1. BBC News Wiltshire: Free school travel under threat for SEND teenagers
  2. Bristol City FC news: Free shirt printing now!
  3. BBC News Wiltshire: Free school travel under threat for SEND teenagers
  4. Bristol Radical History Group: Oral Histories of the Mujeres Libres

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