Things happening this month, and a bit after
Reminders, updates, new notices relating to radical history…
From LSHG:
A final reminder about the London Socialist Historians "Attlee" event on Saturday 28th February.
Registration is from 11.30am in the Wolfson Room (basement of the Institute
of Historical Research and a dedicated conference space).
Speakers should be underway from a little after midday, followed by
discussion until no later than 4pm.
At that point we'll adjourn for a coffee in the basement of Dillons books
just up the road, which has ample space and comfortable seats
Speakers are:
Keith
Flett – ‘A History of 1945: Beyond Ken Loach’
Ian
Birchall – ‘Exits from Empire: British and French choices in 1945′
Francis
Beckett, Biographer – ‘Clement Attlee’
John
Newsinger – ‘Labour, the Welfare State and Korea’
Mike
Sheridan – ‘The Labour Independent Group’
======================
14th Feb 2015 LGBT
History Month talk - 'Unity is Strength – Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners
and their lasting links of comradeship with mining communities’ . Speakers:
Mike Jackson, co-founder with Mark Ashton of Lesbians and Gays Support the
Miners (LGSM), and David (Dai) Donovan, South Wales NUM.
7th Mar 2015 (Eve
of International Women's Day) Tansy Hoskins talks about her book Stitched Up - The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion.
11th Mar 2015 From Bilbao to Manchester: the
Basque child refugees of 1937 - Charles Jepson
19th Mar 2015 Exhibition ‘probing behind the myths
of war and its "glories"’: The
Great War: myths and realities explores topics such as Salford's response
to the outbreak of war, the strength of the anti-war movement locally and
nationally, what happened to the campaign which had gathered momentum by 1914
to get the vote for women - and the realities of trench warfare. Open
Wednesdays to Fridays 1-5p.m.
25th Mar 2015 ''Red Nelson": the English
working class and the making of C.L.R. James - Christian Hogsbjerg
8th Apr 2015 The People: the Rise and Fall
of the Working Class, 1910-2010 - Selina Todd
22nd Apr 2015 Notoriously militant: the story
of a union branch at Ford Dagenham - Sheila Cohen
=========
What’s Happening in Black British History?
II
Thursday, 19th February,
Leggate Hall, University of Liverpool.
The workshop agenda is available to download here, as is an extended
version including abstracts for each talk here.
<< Like the WHBBH1 event hosted in London
in October 2014, presentations at WHBBH2 will cover a wide range of topics -
from Sport to Culture, WW1 soldiers to West End sound systems - so
there’s sure to be something for everyone.>>
You can book
online here - EarlyBird tickets are priced from £5 -
Network for Peace
There will be a meeting on 19 February in London at 1.30. Friends House in Euston.
We will have a short NfP business meeting followed by a discussion on where we are with WW1 Campaigning.
We also hope to have a guest speaker, an academic who will report on her research (just waiting for a confirmation).
No need to confirm your place, or send your apologies. But if you cannot come and have something interesting to report please send something to me in good time for me to distribute before the meeting if at all possible.
London
Socialist Historians Seminars Spring Term 2015
Monday
February 2nd Matthew
Burnett-Stewart, Arming both sides. The Armaments industry in World War
One.
Monday
February 16th Deborah Lavin, Charles
Bradlaugh and the First International
Saturday
February 28th 70 years since the 1945 Attlee Government:
Francis Beckett, Ian Birchall, John Newsinger and others From 11.30am - [LSHG
Conference].
Monday
March 16th Launch of A History of Riots (CSP) Keith
Flett and others
All LSHG seminars take place in Room 102 at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate
House, Malet St, WC1 and start at 5.30 p.m. with the exception of February 28th.
On Saturday 28th February at 1pm, the Wakefield Socialist History Group will be holding an event HOUSING AND THE CLASS STRUGGLE at the Red Shed, Vicarage Street, Wakefield WF1.
With speakers:
*Cllr Hilary Mitchell
*Karen Fletcher (Secretary, Barnsley Against the Bedroom Tax)
*Alan Stewart (Convenor, Wakefield Socialist History Group)
*Kevin Feintuck (rank and file housing worker in Sheffield)
The chair is Kitty Rees.
Admission is free and there will be a free light buffet.
Queer Season at Sutton House
Starting
in LGBT History Month, Sutton House is hosting its first Queer Season, a series
of exhibitions and events celebrating the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and
queer communities.
126
5th
February to 29th March,
Weds
to Sun 12pm to 5pm
Building
on February 2014's exhibition 'Master-Mistress', the first LGBT History Month
event to be held in a National Trust property we think, '126' is a
crowd-sourced audiovisual experience featuring all 126 of Shakespeare's Fair
Youth sonnets as read by members of the LGBTQ community. Each sonnet is
self-recorded and is accompanied by video portraits of the contributors.
Admission:
Adult £3.50, Child £1, Family £6.90, National Trust Members FREE.
The
Amy Grimehouse and National Trust’s Sutton House present:
The Craft
Valentine's Massacre
14
February 7pm to late
Join
The Amy Grimehouse for their special presentation of that 90s classic, The
Craft. Explore Sutton House and participate in some anti-Valentine's spells,
Hex-Your-Ex, the Nancy Booth, The Craft Craft Room with binding and poison pen
Valentine's cards and more. All before the pre-screening show with the Bitches
of Eastwick. The screening will make way for the 'Invoking the Spirit of Manon
Ball' with Connie Francis on the jukebox and more til late. "Now is the
time. This is the hour. Ours is the magic. Ours is the power."
Nick
Fox and National Trust’s Sutton House Present:
Bad Seed
5th
February to 29th March,
Weds
to Sun 12pm to 5pm
This
will include the first comprehensive survey of work by South African-born
artist Nick Fox. Arranged over seven rooms, the exhibition brings together
artworks created over the last ten years, principally painting but also films,
installations, cyanotype prints and intricately laboured object d’art from his
celebrated Nightsong and Phantasieblume series. Fox has also chosen Sutton
House to launch a new artistic project called Seedbank, which invites members
of the public to select seeds linked to a veiled dictionary of floral meanings
to give as long term and living tokens of love and loves loss. Bad Seed will be
shown simultaneously with Fox’s International touring exhibition Nightsong, at
Angus-Hughes Gallery (7th February – 7 March 2015), which is also located in
Hackney.
Admission:
Adult £3.50, Child £1, Family £6.90, National Trust Members FREE.
++++++++++++++
SACK BOB LAMBERT!
Former Police Spy, Serial Liar & Exploiter of
Women
After a couple of successful pickets outside London Metropolitan
University, help us to increase the pressure! Join us to demand the removal of
Bob Lambert from his position as a lecturer on policing and criminology from
London Met university.
When: Friday February 27th – 12.00 –
2.00pm
Where: Outside LMU Tower, 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7
8DB
Bring placards, banners, sound systems, anything to make
noise…
Former police spy, Special Branch manipulator, abuser of women,
agent provocateur, Bob Lambert is now lecturing at London Met on policing and
criminology.
This is a man who has:
• Built a police career on
lying, spying on political groups and community campaigns;
• Stolen the name
of a dead child to build a false identity;
• acted as an agent provocateur,
actively encouraging people to commit crimes so they could be arrested;
• has
been named in parliament as having planted a firebomb in a store in 1987;
•
started several sexual relationships & fathered a child just to make his
cover more convincing, (a child he abandoned with no contact for 24 years);
while all the time having a ‘real’ family back home;
• encouraged other
police spies working under his supervision to follow his dubious example –
including sleeping with some of their targets;
• sent undercover police to
spy on the families of racist murder victims and people who have died in
custody;
• helped to arrange meetings between police spies and senior
officers looking for ways to smear the family of Stephen Lawrence;
• passed
on undercover reports on trade unionists campaigning for better working
conditions on building sites, which was used to blacklist workers;
…and
much more…
For a brief account of Bob Lambert’s dubious record, check our
website:
https://islingtonagainstpolicespies.wordpress.com/about-bob-lambert/
If
we have any kind of standards at all that we expect of teachers, lecturers,
people in a position on responsibility and influence, Bob Lambert fails to meet
up to them.
He has a long history of lying, exploiting women and
manipulating others for his own ends. Is this really someone London Met thinks
is appropriate to be teaching at a supposedly ‘progressive’
university?
The exposures of the activities of undercover police spying
on campaigning groups, grieving families and political activists over recent
years has led to many enquiries and investigations; women exploited by these
officers are also suing the Metropolitan Police as the institution ultimately
responsible. But the individual police spies themselves need to also be held to
account. Lambert has pathetically ‘apologised’ for some bits of his past;
because he was (belatedly) caught out. He needs to properly face the
consequences of his a_ctions.
This campaign is being organised by
Islington Against Police Spies, a group of local residents and activists. We are
committed to putting pressure on the University and raising awareness of
Lambert’s past, until he is forced to leave London Met. We know this CAN be done
– but it’s not necessarily going to be easy. Hopefully this campaign will get
stronger until it’s irresistible. BUT WE NEED HELP – we call on anyone who
thinks Bob Lambert should not be working in a supposedly progressive university
to support our campaign.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Come down and join the
picket on January 30th. The bigger and noisier
our protest, the more notice
London Met will have to take of us.
Protest to the following in the
London Met hierarchy, and demand that
they sack Bob Lambert:
* John
Raftery
, Vice-Chancellor; email: j.raftery@londonmet.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7133
2001
* Peter McCaffery
, Deputy Vice-Chancellor; email:
P.McCaffery@londonmet.ac.uk. Tel: 020 7133
2401
* Jonathan Woodhead, Executive Officer; email:
j.woodhead@londonmet.ac.uk
. Tel: 020 7133
2042
* Paul Bowler
, Deputy Chief Executive; email: P.Bowler@londonmet.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7133
2031
* Peter Garrod
, University Secretary and Clerk to the Board;
email:
p.garrod@londonmet.ac.uk
. Tel: 020 7133
2004
You can also email Bob Lambert directly and let him know what you
think
of his activities: r.lambert@londonmet.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7133
4692/2911
Spread the Word - tell others about this campaign, raise the
issue in
your networks, communities, union, etc - the more people know about
Bob,
the more pressure we all put on the university, the more likely it
is
that he will have to go.
You can download, print and spread our
leaflet from the link below:
https://islingtonagainstpolicespies.wordpress.com/resources/
For
more info on undercover police spies see:
http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com
http://policespiesoutoflives.org.uk/
