Rachel Holmes

Rachel Holmes is the author of three biographies, most recently Eleanor Marx: A Life, published in 2014. She is currently writing a book about Sylvia Pankhurst and is Visiting Literary Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford.

Cities of the Future: Bitter Almond Bushes

By June 15, 2016

Cape Town is blessed in the beauty pageant of luxury tourism. Hotels, swimming pools, golf courses, and gated playgrounds proliferate to pamper the wealthy. No bounty from the seductions of one of the world’s most vibrant, pluralistic cities is shared with the low-waged who make this wealth.

Palestine

By January 16, 2012
In this piece from our Writers Bloc project, our collection of essays about education systems around the world, Rachel Holmes inflames imaginations with the Palestine Writing Workshop.