St Giles history / mystery walk
home to the 'dangerous classes'
their removal for Google and their ilk,
squats and occupations from 1946 to the 12 Bar,
the strange remains of Little Compton Street,
and other things, not all gin-related.
Thursday September 29th 2016
6-8ish pm
60 St Giles High Street. London, WC2H 8LG
It's on facebook:
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News from Nowhere Club
Saturday October 8th 2016
What Does Local Community Action Really Mean?
Speaker: Jude Leighton
What are the possibilities & limitations of trying to
transform the local area where you grew up? Jude has lived in Leytonstone all
her life & has worked in several organisations, aiming to make a big
difference to the quality of life of her neighbours. She has learnt several
lessons through her struggles & will let us into her most recent thoughts
& revelations, with a chance for the audience to contribute their own
experiences & utopian desires.
Epicentre, West Street E11 4LJ
7.30 pm Buffet
8.00 pm Presentation and discussion
All welcome. Free entry.
Enquiries 0208 555 5248
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Keep Space for Peace week 1-8 Oct.
Actions are planned across the UK to protest against the role British military bases play in the US missile defence system. The system contributes to global tension and is an obstacle to further bilateral nuclear disarmament between Russia and the United States.
Keep Space for Peace week is an annual international week of action against the militarisation of space.
On the 1 October a co-ordinated demonstration will take place at RAF Fylingdales in North Yorkshire and RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire. The contribution to war made by these bases is still largely unknown to the general public, so please do support these crucial protests.
Up North
12 noon - 3pm, 1 October 2016
RAF Fylingdales
Down South
12 noon - 3pm, 1 October 2016
RAF Croughton
Menwith Hill
The role US operations at Menwith Hill, North Yorkshire play in targeted killings was highlighted in a shocking exposé by investigative journalist Ryan Gallagher earlier this month. A demonstration will take place at the NSA controlled site on the 4 October at 6pm. Contact info@yorkshirecnd.org.uk for more info.
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Somers Town History Club
Next session on squats in Somers Town in 1970s and 1980s.
"Our object of study is very specifically Somers Town, NW1... looking for people who could talk about what it was like, what happened and so on - and also artefacts - the newspapers that were produced in the early 1970s. for example."
[Messages and offers of help re. ideas, links etc. can be passed on via RaHN, radicalhistorynetwork@gmail.com]
"Our meeting is in Somers Town on 5 October at 6pm."
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THE RIGHT OF WAY:
REDRAWING THE DEFINITIVE MAP
Saturday evening September
17 – 5pm-8pm
The
Empire Remains Shop
Level 2,
91-93 Baker Street, London, W1U6QQ
(Entrance on Crawford Street)
Public discussion and
screening as part of the New Landscapes Institute's new project “The
Right of Way”. The project explores the past, present and future of
public rights of way and open spaces in the contemporary British landscape. The
project was developed during a residency at the Delfina Foundation and with the
support of the Kier Foundation.
So please join us for some food, drinks and a
lively discussion!
The Contemporary British Countryside contains a
labyrinth of Public Rights of Way, Bridlepaths, Byways, Ancient Highways and
Footpaths, which over the centuries have been re-configured by an array of laws
and rural interventions that dictate their use. In this urbanised time, the
age-old battle for the commons continues to be an ever-expanding field.
In 2000, the Countryside and Rights of Way Act
was introduced in England and Wales. Section 53 of the Act provides for a
cut-off date for the Definitive ‘Right of Way’ map of 2026. This means that
many
historic routes and trails will be lost if they
are not formally recorded in the next ten years.
This evening, join a range of speakers as they
present different views on this transforming landscape and where the battles
for public and private space are still being waged.
Speakers include
·
Kate Ashbrook
(Open Spaces Society / The Ramblers)
·
Mario Costa-Sa
(British Horse Society / Trail Riders Fellowship),
·
Alex Hodson
(independent publisher) and other public space advocates.
Find out how you can contribute to identifying
and recording any unlisted or forgotten Rights of Way before the cut-off date
of 2026.
There will also be a screening of /Along the
Bridleway/ – documenting the New Landscapes Institute’s recent fieldwork
– horse riding along London’s Green belt with the Bromley Bridleways Access
Group.
THE RIGHT OF WAY is a continuation of the New
Landscapes Institute’s investigations into the transformation of stock routes
and rural trails.
More Event and booking Information:
http://newlandscapesinstitute.org/redrawing-definitive-map-discussion-screening/
It is
free but please book for catering purposes.
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[Update to earlier notification:]
"We need crowds/supporters/hecklers for the filming of Crusading Women! on Friday September 30, Saturday October 1st and Sunday October 2nd. At various sites and times...."
[Leaflet text] - Calling all pacifists!
Please come to a filming by Clapham Film Unit of a re-enactment of the 1917 Women’s Peace Crusade in
Manchester and East Lancashire
Friday September 30th Blackburn, outside St George’s Hall on Northgate 10.30am
Tuesday 13th Sept. - free film about Wally Hope, SE1
Saturday October 1st Alexandra Park,
Manchester (near the Lodge) 12 noon.
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Some friends are showing their film about Wally Hope (one of the key people behind the Stonehenge free festivals) this Tuesday.
The film features Penny Rimbaud (Crass) and Nigel Ayers (Nocturnal Emissions).
The showing is in the garden of the Rose and Crown pub, Colombo Street SE1 at sunset (7pm?) and is free.
Full details and trailer in these links:
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3-4 September:
Celebrating the best of local communities at #MoreInCommon events
this weekend.
17 September: Refugees Welcome march in Solidarity with Refugees.
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'Lancashire and the Spanish Civil War'
conference: Saturday
20 August from 11am to 4pm at
Pendle Leisure Trust, ACE Centre, Cross Street, Nelson BB9 7NH a conference is
being organised by the Lancashire Association of Trades Union Councils. Papers
on the theme of Lancashire and the Spanish Civil War include one from Stuart
Walsh, on behalf of WCML, on the Aid for Spain movement. Price £5
including lunch, payable on the day. Further details from Peter
Billington, email latuc@gmx.co.uk, tel 07709 622405.
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TWO (special) News from Nowhere Club events in
September
Saturday
September 10th 2016 7.30 p.m.
**** GALA Evening****!!
21st birthday of the News from Nowhere Club
All past speakers invited.
Food & drink in plenty. Exhibition of 21 years of the Club. Screening of ‘Alfred
Hitchcock in East London’ film by Bill Hodgson. Update on setting
up local Hitchcock Museum. Readings from ‘News from Nowhere’ utopia by William
Morris. Singing of Leon Rosselson’s song ‘Bringing the News from Nowhere.’
Epicentre,
West Street E11 4LJ
FREE
entry - raffle – enquiries 0208 555 5248 – all welcome
AND........
*Special
EXTRA event to commemorate our 21st birthday*
!! Monday!!
September 12th 2016
An evening with Iain
Sinclair:
‘I take a walk every morning…’
Speaker: Iain
Sinclair: Hackney resident, poet,
film maker, essayist, award winning novelist, psychogeographer, ‘avant
gardeist’ influenced by the Beat generation… Iain’s prolific, unusual life as a
writer, observer and social critic will be the subject of tonight’s special event.
You might like to read one or two of his works before the meeting to get the
measure of his style. He will tell us what his life is like and answer your
questions! The Newham Bookshop will be with us with copies of Iain’s books.
7.30 for 8pm
FREE entry –
raffle – all welcome
at
Epicentre, West Street E11
Enquiries 0208
555 5248
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Barnsley
Festival of Labour History - Friday 14th-Sunday 16th October 2016
The
Civic, Hanson Street, Barnsley, S70 2HZ
Talks,
discussion, music film - weekend ticket £10
Organised by Barnsley Trades Council to celebrate the 125th anniversary
of our founding
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Labour History
Highlights
include
Friday 14
October - opening with gig by David Rovics (£5 entry) at The Old No. 7 Market
Hill Barnsley
Saturday
15 October - Sunday 16 October
Speakers include
Malcolm Chase, Dave Burland, Jill Liddington, Keith Laybourn, Louise Raw, John
Newsinger, Donny Gluckstein, John Field, Anandi Ramamurthy, Ralph Darlington
On Saturday night there will be a screening of Ken Loach's film The Price
of Coal.
Tickets / more
info from Barnsley Trades Council c/o 33 Western Street, Barnsley, S70 2BT
Cheques payable to Barnsley Trades Council. Tel 07594857960 for more info.
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Peace History Conference 2016
This year's exciting and informative Conference will take place in Leeds, Yorkshire on 14th and 15th October .
The linked programme & booking leaflet give all the details for the two days of events entitled 'Conscience and Conscription: Resistance to War 1916-2016'.
To book please print the booking form from the pdf or go to the Movement for the Abolition of War website http://www.abolishwar.org.uk/ to book online.
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Independent Working Class Education Network invites you to:
October 16th 2016 12pm- 5.30pm
Venue: Philadelphia WMC, Upperthorpe, Sheffield
"It's The Economy Stupid- A Day of Economic Thought & Discussion"
Sessions including:
- What is Neo-Liberalism? Is there such a thing as Corbynomics?
- Free Trade - Freedom or race to the bottom?
- Everything you wanted to know about economics, but were frightened to ask - panel discussion
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And, following the IWCE Day School "It's the Economy, Stupid":
Songs of Social Significance
Sheffield 16th October 2016
Venue: Philadelphia WMC, Sheffield
7.00pm-11pm
Plus Politics, Poetry and Dancing
In association with:
Independent Working Class Education Network
Momentum Sheffield
Sheffield Trades Council
Tickets: £10waged £5 unwaged
Pay on the door
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Courses
in Manchester this autumn on the history of Radical Women
Michael Herbert will be teaching two courses on the history of Radical Women
1790 – 1980 this autumn, one in the evening and one during the day.
The first course will be in the evening and will take place at Aquinas
College, Nangreave Road, Stockport. It will begin on Monday 12
September, 6.30pm to 8.30pm. The course will last 10 weeks and finish
on 21 November. (Half-term will be 24th October).
The course will explore the history of radical women in Britain,
highlighting their struggle for civil, political and legal rights over two
centuries. It will include the important contribution made by many women
from Greater Manchester.
We begin with Mary Wollstonecraft’s book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) and
then go on to the radical movement of the 1790s, the risings of the
Luddites, the Peterloo Massacre of 1819, the Owenite Feminists, Chartism,
Socialism, trade unions and the long campaign for Votes for Women which started
in 1866 and ended in 1918 [in a way].
The second part of the course at Aquinas will start in January 2017
and covers the years 1918-1980.
Michael will also be teaching this course during the day at the Working Class Movement Library,
starting on Tuesday 27th September, 11am to 1pm. It will cover the same
topics as the course at Aquinas. The course will last 10 weeks. Half-term
will be 25 October and the course will finish on Tuesday 6 December.
As part of the course there will be an opportunity to look at original
documents and items in the collection at the WCML.
The cost of the course at the WCML will be £60, payable in advance.
For more information about the course and how to book, please contact Michael
Herbert: redflagwalks@gmail.com
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More about and from the Working Class Movement Library:
Working Class Movement Library
51 The Crescent,
Salford, M5 4WX
Conference - Radical women, 1880-1914
There
are just a few tickets remaining for our 17 September conference at the Old
Fire Station, Crescent, Salford.
The decades
spanning the turn of the twentieth century saw an upsurge in female activism as
women began to organise themselves into trade unions, take part in the
socialist debates on social and economic change, and demand the vote. This
conference celebrates the battles and achievements of working-class women in
the drive to achieve a fairer and more balanced society.
Keynote speakers:
Professor Sheila Rowbotham and Professor Karen Hunt. Full speaker lineup
at http://www.wcml.org.uk/radicalwomenconf
Price £20 waged,
£7.50 unwaged including lunch. Places must be reserved and paid for in advance.
Please email Royston Futter, trustees@wcml.org.uk
UPDATE (13/9/16): "We are delighted that our conference this Saturday has proved so popular. It is, however, fully booked, with a long waiting list. It won't be possible to accommodate anyone turning up on the day who hasn't already got a place - sorry."
Museums
at Night
On Thursday 27 October we open in the evening (6.30pm-8pm) to
mark the nationwide Museums at Night celebration. Broadside ballads from
the Manchester region from the ‘Middleton Linnet’ Jennifer Reid form a counterpoint
to Battle for the Ballot, in which
singer-songwriter Quiet Loner uses original songs to tell the story of how
working people came to have a vote. The story will take in events like
the Peterloo Massacre and introduce the people – Chartists, politicians and
suffragettes – who fought for the ideal of universal suffrage.
Admission free.
New
series of Invisible Histories talks
Our
popular series of free Wednesday 2pm tours begins again in September:
14 Sept Granville Williams Pit
props: music, international solidarity and the 1984/85 miners' strike.28 Sept Ray Physick The
Olimpiada Popular of 1936 and the worker sport movement in the inter-war years.
12 Oct Katrina Navickas Protests
and public space in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the age of radicals and the Chartists, 1789-1848.
26 Oct Nicole Robertson “Organise,
educate and agitate”: trade unionism and office workers in Britain, 1914-39.
9 Nov Mervyn Busteed Engels,
the Burns Family and the Manchester Irish.
23 Nov Malcolm Pittock Albert
Evans, Bolton WW1 conscientious objector.
All welcome, admission free,
light refreshments after.
And on Tuesday 4 October at 2pm there
will be a talk to mark Black History
Month: Race, racism and the
working class struggle by Lou Kushnick, founder of the Ahmed Iqbal
Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre. All welcome, admission free, light
refreshments after.
Last chance to see our Trades Council exhibition
Our exhibition To Make That Future Now! - 150 years of the Manchester and Salford Trades Council closes on Friday 16 September.
For 150 years the Trades Council has fought, not only for socialism and trade union rights, but also against injustices such as poverty, discrimination and unemployment - and, as two separate institutions since 1975, it still carries on the struggle.
Open Wednesdays to Fridays 1-5pm and this coming
Saturday, 3 September 10am-4pm.
Admission free.. More details at http://www.wcml.org.uk/events.
On Wednesday 28 September our new exhibition, We Only
Want the Earth, opens and runs until the end of the year. On the centenary
of the Easter rising we explore the life of one of its leaders, James Connolly,
socialist, trade unionist, nationalist and revolutionary. We Only
Want the Earth reveals the life and prolific works of this enigmatic
man.
Exhibitions are open Wednesdays to Fridays 1-5pm,
and the first Saturday of the month 10am-4pm. Admission free.
"And the above
only gets us to the end of October... To find out more about the first UK
reading of a new piece by Charlotte Delaney, playwright and daughter of Salford
writer Shelagh Delaney, on 3 November, and other events before the end of the
year, head to http://www.wcml.org.uk/events."
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Sheila Rowbotham at the London Review Bookshop
19 October 2016 at 7 p.m.
"Sheila Rowbotham was one of the leading figures behind the Women’s
Liberation Movement in Britain and one of the best-loved feminists of our
times. In conversation with Melissa Benn, Rowbotham will discuss her latest
book Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain
and the United States and its transatlantic story of six radical
pioneers, showing how rebellious ideas were formed and travelled across the
Atlantic.
They will discuss the fascinating perspectives offered by Rebel
Crossings: on the historical interaction of feminism, socialism, anarchism
and on the incipient consciousness of a new sense of self, so vital for women
seeking emancipation. In differing ways they sought to combine the creation of
a co-operative society with personal freedom, engaging with ideas and
experiments that speak to our times today."
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London Socialist Historians Group seminar series Autumn 2016
All in Room 304 Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St, WC1, at 5.30pm.
Free without ticket - no need to book in advance.
Monday October 10th 2016 - Steve Cushion: 'A Working Class Heroine Is Also Something To Be: Where women workers fit into "A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution, How the Working Class Shaped the Guerrilla Victory"'
Monday October 24th 2016 - Ian Birchall: 'Lenin’s Moscow by Alfred Rosmer' (book launch)
Monday November 7
th 2016 - Simon Hall: '1956: The World in Revolt'
Monday November 21st - tba
Monday December 5th - Merilyn Moos: 'Breaking the Silence. Voices of the British Children of Refugees from Nazism'
For more information please contact LSHG convenor Keith Flett at keith1917@btinternet.com
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SOCIAL HISTORIES OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
A year-long series of monthly discussion meetings, timed to take place
during the run-up to the centenary of Russia’s revolutions of 1917.
Venue: Birkbeck, University of London
Full programme and further information: https://socialhistories1917.wordpress.com/
Each discussion will be opened by historians, scholars working in academia
who have spent many years studying the revolution in the Russian archives. But
these are not academic seminars - they are open to all who share our interest
in the history of the Russian revolution as a landmark struggle for social
liberation. At each discussion there will be an opening talk of about 30
minutes, followed by open debate.
The emphasis in the discussion meetings will be on the social histories of
the revolution - that is, how it was experienced by the mass of working people
who participated.
By taking this approach we aim not to brush aside the role of political
leaders, and their disputes and decisions, but rather to move beyond these
well-known debates and reach a deeper understanding of the revolution as
the active participation of millions of people in changing history.
We hope that by developing our theme over a year of meetings, we will be
able collectively to engage in serious thinking and re-thinking about the
revolution and its significance for our past and present.
William Dixon, Brendan McGeever, Simon Pirani (Organisers)
TIMETABLE
OF EVENTS
2016
Oct 27 – Steve Smith (University of Oxford): The Social History of
the Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921
Nov 24 – Brendan McGeever (Birkbeck, University of London): Antisemitism
and Revolutionary Politics in the Russian Revolution, 1917-1919
Dec 15 – Andy Willimott (Reading University): Living the
Revolution: Urban Communes in 1920s Russia and the Invention of a Socialist
Lifestyle
2017
Jan 26 – Sarah Badcock (Nottingham University): The 1917
Revolutions at Local Level
Feb 23 – Katy Turton (Queens University, Belfast): Women in Revolt:
the Female Experience of the 1917 Revolutions
March 16 – George Gilbert (Southampton University): The Radical
Right and the Russian Revolution
March 30 –Dimitri Tolkatsch (University of Freiburg, Germany): The
Ukrainian Peasant Insurgency in the Revolutionary Period
April 27 – Chris Read (Warwick University): The Social History of
the Revolutionary Period
May 25 – Barbara Allen (La Salle University, USA): Alexander
Shlyapnikov and the Russian Metalworkers in 1917
June 29 – Don Filtzer (University of East London): The Working
Class and the First Five-year Plan, 1928-32
Sep 28 – Wendy Goldman (Carnegie Mellon University, USA): Taking
Power: Remaking the Family, Levelling Wages, Planning the Economy
Oct 12 – Lara Cook (University of York): Local Soviets in 1917-18
and their Relations with the Central Executive Committee
Oct 26 – 1917 A Century On: A Debate (Speakers TBC,
including Simon Pirani (author of The Russian
Revolution in Retreat 1920-1924)
Nov 23 – Gleb Albert (University of Zurich): Early Soviet Society
and World Revolution, 1917-27
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From: History and Policy e-newsletter
Brexit and food prices: the legacy of the Hungry Forties
"Plenty of attention is being paid to the political and constitutional effects of Brexit, but what will its economic impact be on life’s most basic commodities? How did food prices inform the debate in the weeks and months leading up to the referendum, and how have they informed debate in the past? How have the spectres of want and hunger been invoked over the last century and a half in political contexts, and are we paying them enough attention now?
Debating these questions will be five historians and policy makers with combined expertise covering the period since the 1840s, the “Hungry Forties,” which live in political memory as the UK’s last serious sustained period of food poverty. The discussion is aimed at policy makers and practitioners working in the area of food poverty and food security, and aims to show how lessons from the past can inform decision-making today.
This roundtable will consist of four papers delivered by experts. There will be ample time for questions and discussion following each paper, and at the close of the afternoon."
CHAIR/COMMENTATOR: Professor Jim Tomlinson (Glasgow)
PANELISTS (all paper titles tbc)
Professor Anthony Howe (East Anglia) - The Hungry Forties and the Rise of Free Trade England
Dr Sarah Richardson (Warwick) - The Legacy of the Hungry Forties (Late 19th-early 20th century)
Lindsay Aqui (Queen Mary) - The Hungry Forties and the 1975 Referendum
Geoff Tansey (Curator, Food Systems Academy; Chair, Fabian Commission on Food and Poverty) - Food Prices and Brexit
The Global Economics and History Forum is run by Dr Marc-William Palen (Exeter), Dr David Thackeray (Exeter) and Dr Andrew Dilley (Aberdeen). The forum aims to bring together academics, business groups, policy makers and the public interested in how understandings of historical trade relations can inform current policy debates.
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Revolutionary Pasts
Revolutionary Pasts: Representing the Long Nineteenth Century’s Radical Heritage’, 4 and 5 November, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
How did activists remember, represent and reassess the revolutionary heritage of the ‘long nineteenth century’? On 4–5 November, Northumbria University’s ‘Histories of Activism’ research group will examine this question in association with the Society for the Study of Labour History (SSLH) and with the support of Durham’s Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies.
We will explore how movements, groups and organisations evoked the memory of particular events (e.g. the revolutions of 1789 and 1848, the Paris Commune, the Haymarket Affair) and how they cast or recast the legacy of particular movements (e.g. utopian socialism, Chartism, feminism). In doing so, the event explores narratives about radical and revolutionary legacies in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
We are currently accepting paper proposals for this event. Please send us a brief abstract (c. 200 words) and a biographical note or CV by 12 September. You can contact the organisers (Daniel Laqua, Charlotte Alston, Laura O’Brien) via historiesofactivism@gmail.com.
Members of the SSLH may wish to note that the Society’s AGM will take place during the conference. A full programme and registration details will be available in late September.
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