The OAB (Centre de Recherches Anglophones, Paris Nanterre) and CREW (Sorbonne Nouvelle) are jointly organizing a study day titled Protest movements, political protests and social struggles in Great Britain (1811-1914) on 31 January 2025. The day will be held on the Paris Nanterre University site, Max Weber Building.
l’OAB (CREA, Paris Nanterre) et CREW (Sorbonne Nouvelle) organisent conjointement une journée d’étude autour de la question d’agrégation “Mouvements protestataires, contestations politiques et luttes sociales en Grande-Bretagne (1811- 1914)” le 31 janvier 2025. La journée se tiendra sur le site de l’université Paris Nanterre, Bâtiment Max Weber.
Programme online (French version)
Programme
9-9:15 Introduction : Laurence Dubois & Charlotte Gould (OAB, Université Paris Nanterre)
Chair : Myriam-Isabelle Ducrocq (Université Paris Nanterre)
9:15-9:45 Robert Poole (University of Central Lancashire) : “Peterloo and the Radical Movement”
9:45-10:15 Michel Prum (Université Paris Cité) : “Chartism revisited – a pre-Marxist view”
10:15-10:45 Ophélie Siméon (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) : “Women, workers and citizens. Rethinking the political role of the Owenite movement, 1820-1845”
10:45-11:15 Q&A
11-15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12 Ryan Hanley (University of Exeter) : “Popular Politics and the Abolition Movement in Britain, 1787-1833”
12-12:15 Q&A
12:15-1:30 LUNCH BREAK
Chair : Thierry Labica (Université Paris Nanterre)
1:30-2 Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière (Sorbonne Université) : “The relationship between the British Socialist and Suffrage Movements, 1884 -1914”
2-2:30 Yann Béliard (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) : “The Daily Herald, product and mirror of the Great Labour Unrest, 1912-1914”
2:30-2:50 Q&A
2:50-3.10 Coffee break
3:10-3:40 Steven Parfitt (independent scholar) : “The Knights of Labour in Britain”
3:40-4:10 Daniel Renshaw (University of Reading) : “The British Left and Migrant Socialism, 1889-1914”
4:10-4:30 Q&A
The day will be recorded for later broadcast.
Organising committee
Yann Béliard (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Laurence Dubois (Nanterre)
Charlotte Gould (Nanterre)
Ophélie Siméon (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
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