Category: Events

Information about forthcoming conferences, calls for papers and invitations to register, plus reports on conferences, seminars and similar events that have already taken place.

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Chartism Day 2025 report: landscape and the crowd, emancipation and revolution

Academic and independent historians, Chartist enthusiasts and the Chartism curious gathered in Huddersfield for the annual Chartism Day event, the latest in a series of conferences that first ran in 1993. With centuries of history as a site of working-class radicalism from Luddism to Owenite socialism and beyond, Huddersfield proved to be the ideal venue for Chartism Day 2025. Taking place at Heritage Quay, a … Continue reading Chartism Day 2025 report: landscape and the crowd, emancipation and revolution

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Chartism Day 2025: book now

Chartism Day 2025 will take place on Saturday, 6 September at Heritage Quay, University of Huddersfield. Book your ticket now on Eventbrite PAPERSProfessor Peter Gurney: The Chartist Revolution: an argumentDr Joan Allen Daniel O’Connell, the Chartists and contested understandings of the language of emancipation, 1819-1840Dr Dave Steele: The Powerful Crowd: reputational power and Chartist meetingsProfessor Stephen Milner: Pre-modern Italy and the working class: the renaissance … Continue reading Chartism Day 2025: book now

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West Yorkshire textile workers’ strike: one hundred years on

In the summer of 1925, all eyes were on the coal industry, where employers had been forced to back off from their threat to cut miners’ wages. But in the parlous economic circumstances of that year, the miners were not alone in fighting to preserve their living standards from attack. That July and August, more than 150,000 workers in West Yorkshire’s textiles industry came out … Continue reading West Yorkshire textile workers’ strike: one hundred years on

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The Chartist Revolution: a challenge to liberalism and market capitalism

Liberal interpretations of the Chartist movement continue to dominate the views of historians and of general society, Professor Peter Gurney argued in delivering the Society’s fourth annual John Halstead Memorial Lecture at the John Rylands Library in Manchester in June. Setting out to challenge the dominance of liberal readings which commonly argued that those Chartist demands which had proved feasible had eventually found their way … Continue reading The Chartist Revolution: a challenge to liberalism and market capitalism

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Remembering Coal: Legacy, Memories, Heritage

The University of Birmingham is hosting a one-day event titled Remembering Coal: Legacy, Memories, Heritage to mark its links with the mining industry. The event takes place on Monday 16 June,  from 10 am to 6.30 pm at the Arts Building (Level 1, LR1), Edgbaston campus. The event is free to attend and can be viewed online subject to registration. Download the full conference programme … Continue reading Remembering Coal: Legacy, Memories, Heritage

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CFP: Precarity and Scale in the History of Colonial Labour

Labour and Empire Working Group, ELHN Conference 2026: Precarity and Scale in the History of Colonial Labour. University of Barcelona, 16-19 June 2026. Call for papers deadline 30 June 2025 Following up on a long-term project on working-class anti-imperialism, explored in publications (Beliard, Kirk 2021) and at conferences (most recently in Bristol 2023 and Uppsala), the European Labour History Network’s Labour & Empire Working Group … Continue reading CFP: Precarity and Scale in the History of Colonial Labour

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Conference: Starmer Year One

Bookings are now open for the ‘Starmer Year One’ conference organised by the Labour History Research Unit at Anglia Ruskin University. The event takes place on 14 June 2025 in Cambridge. Conference organiser Professor Rohan McWilliam says: ‘By the time we get to 14 June the government will have been in power for almost a year and politics may be a little different. The results … Continue reading Conference: Starmer Year One

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Report: the history and legacy of the 1984/5 miners’ strike

Keith Gildart reports on a conference/symposium on the History and Legacy of the 1984/5 Miners’ Strike, held at the National Coal Mining Museum for England This year marked the fortieth anniversary of the end of the miners’ strike of 1984/5. This seismic event is now widely regarded as one of the key-turning points in post-war British history. In recent years a number of books, articles, … Continue reading Report: the history and legacy of the 1984/5 miners’ strike

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Play: Chopped Liver and Unions

Manchester Jewish Museum is hosting a performance of the one-woman play Chopped Liver and Unions on Thursday 1 May to mark International Workers’ Day. The play is based on the life of Sara Wesker, a Jewish trade unionist and activist in the Communist Party of Great Britain who led the “singing strikers” walk-out at the Rego Factory in London’s Bethnal Green in 1928, stood on … Continue reading Play: Chopped Liver and Unions

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