Kevin Morgan speaks on Empire, internationalism and the ambiguities of trade-union unity: A.A. Purcell, the Furnishing Trades and the case of Ireland. Saturday 21 April 2012. Time: 11.30 a.m. Venue: Room MD050, Magee Campus, University of Ulster, Northlands Road, Derry, Londonderry, BT48 7JL.
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Dec
11
Aspects of Popular Protest
Aspects of Popular
Protest
Jerry White
Riots and the Law in
18th Century London
7pm 22 February 2012
David Goodway
The Real History of
Chartism
7pm 19 April 2012
Venue for both:
Bishopsgate Institute
Free entry, all welcome,
retiring collection.
www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk/
Sunday 20 November 2011
South Place Ethical Soc (SPES) talk: Terry Liddle on Socialism & Secularlism – an uneasy relationship. Time: 11.00 a.m. Venue: Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1. Admission £3.00 (£2.00 concessions) for non-SPES members. For further details click this link.
The conference on “Reform Communism since 1945 in comparative historical perspective”, 22-23 October, organised by UEA School of History together with Socialist History and supported by BASEES, is shaping up nicely. Registrations have been coming in steadily since July. We now have a dedicated conference website with further details of the programme, abstracts of papers and so on. Attendance is free of charge, but we do ask that anyone intending to come register in advance. Further updates will be posted nearer the event.
This year’s annual A L Morton Memorial Lecture 7pm Wednesday 28th September 2011 Louise Raw on “The Truth about the 1888 Match Girls’ Strike and its Place in History” The speaker is the author of the book, Striking a Light: The Bryant and May Match women and their Place in Labour History, copies of which will be available at the meeting. This event is held jointly with Labour History Movement Publications (LHMP)
2011 GEORGE EDWARDS MEMORIAL MEETING: “The Fight for the Rights of Rural Workers in East Anglia – Yesterday and Today”. Chairman: Rev. Graham Hedger, former chair of Rural Action East; speakers: Mr. Stan Newens, Labour historian, former MP & MEP, and Mr Ivan Monckton, RAAW member of the General Executive Council of Unite. Venue: Gressenhall Museum, Nr. Dereham, Norfolk. Entrance fee (meeting only): £2.40. Organised by East Anglia District, Methodist Church, and Rural, Agricultural and Allied Workers’ section of ‘UNITE’, in association with the Gressenhall Museum.
Saturday 4 June – 2.00 to 4.00 p.m.
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Apr
11
Salford event – “The Sixty-Five”
Cross-post from North East Shop Stewards Network, http://nessn.org.uk/
Saturday 16 April, 10.30am-4.00pm, Working Class Movement Library Annexe, 51 Crescent, Salford M5 4WX
10.00 Doors open
10.30 Welcome – Kate Richardson (Manchester Trades Union Council)
10.45 Site conditions and the lump: why we went on strike in 1972, and how the state framed 32 North Wales flying pickets, including 24 at Shrewsbury – Dave Ayre (veteran flying picket)
11.45 John Poulson and T. Dan Smith: My Part in Their Downfall – jerry-building and corruption, then and now – Sam Webb (architect)
12.45 Lunch
1.15 We Didn’t Vote to Die at Work – Hilda Palmer (Great Manchester Hazards)
2.15 Organising for Health and Safety – Peter Farrell (Construction Safety Campaign) and Colin Trousdale (Blacklist Campaign)
3.15 Rebuilding Trades Councils and a Safety Reps’ Network
4.00 Close
The ‘Sixty-Five’ was a dodgy 65-foot ladder that led to a worker’s death in Robert Tressell’s famous novel, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, written over a century ago.
How much has changed on building sites since then? Given employers’ greed and the public spending cuts to pay off the bankers’ gambling debts, many of the buildings we work in are likely to become less safe and healthy, unless we get organised.
This event is for established trade union safety reps in all industries and activists who are thinking about becoming safety reps. Its aims include:
* raising the profiles of health and safety campaigns and networks;
* encouraging workplace activists to become safety reps;
* raising the issue of political trade unionism;
* helping safety reps to build a self-organised network;
* helping to build or rebuild trades union councils;
* helping to build Workers’ Memorial Day events on 28 April; and
* helping to build the Hazards Conference at Keele in September;
The day will involve short presentations, including films, for 15 minutes in each session, followed by small group and general discussions.
This the second event in Manchester TUC’s Tressell Centenary Year, following the successful exhibition of The Robert Tressell Family Papers at the Working Class Movement Library, and we are very grateful to the staff, volunteers and trustees for their support and encouragement.
The event is free, but there will be a collection. To book places, contact mtuctressell@gmail.com or 0798 487 0602
British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar. Sean Creighton talks on The Black Indies: Reflections on Slavery and Abolition and the North East . 5.15pm, Wednesday 16 February.
Wolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1.
09
Feb
11
Eric Paine Memorial Lecture – Ted Vallance on THOMAS PAINE AND THE ENGLISH RADICAL TRADITION
Thomas Paine Society: Eric Paine Memorial Lecture
Dr. Ted Vallance on THOMAS PAINE AND THE ENGLISH RADICAL TRADITION.
Saturday, March 5, 2.00 pm., Brockway Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1. Admission Free
Listing from
Freethought History Research Group
BCM Box 5276, London, WC1N 3XX www.fhrg.bravehost.com
Saturday, May 14, 2011 12 noon – 5 pm, Conway Hall, 25, Red Lion Square, London, WC1 Tube, Holborn
The struggle for the separation of church and state is also the struggle for a free and fraternal society.
The universal aspiration to freedom of conscience winds like a thread through all history on all continents – USA, Mexico. Spain, Portugal, Russia, France…
For us, as freethinkers, this struggle for separation can only be international. Our predecessors understood this as did Charles Bradlaugh, who founded with others in London in 1880 the first International Association of Freethinkers.
In Oslo, in August 2011, we want to revive this tradition by refounding the International Association of Freethinkers.
Catherine Le Fur
Speakers:
Terry Liddle, founding member of the Freethought History Research Group:
The Rome Freethought Congress of 1904.
Jean-Marc Schiappa, Institute for Research and Studies on Freethought, France:
Andre Lorulot: Freethinker and Anarchist.
Catherine Le Fur, National Federation of Freethinkers, joint editor of La Raison, freethought monthly, Paris:
The Oslo Conference and After.
Bryan Niblett, author of Dare To Stand Alone: The Story of Charles Bradlaugh and Emeritus professor at the University of Wales:
Bradlaugh, Freethought and France.
Plenty of time for questions and discussion.
Admission Free, Collection
Organised jointly by FHRG tliddle@freeuk.com, 0208 8850 4187
Fédération nationale de la Libre Pensée, 10-12 rue des Fosses, St Jacques 75005, Paris
www.fnlp.fr
