Information about forthcoming conferences, calls for papers and invitations to register, plus reports on conferences, seminars and similar events that have already taken place.
A one-day archive event in celebration of the Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson will take place at People’s History Museum in Manchester on Saturday 9 November. The event marks the centenary of her election to Parliament, as MP for Middlesbrough East, on 29 October 1924. Continue reading PHM opens up the Ellen Wilkinson archives
Registration is now open for The Radical North, 1779–1914: A Symposium in Memory of Malcolm Chase. The event takes place on Friday 29 November at the University of Leeds, and is free of charge. Continue reading The Radical North: A Symposium in Memory of Malcolm Chase
The organisers of a major conference on the ‘legacy of inclusivity and change’ left by the Labour politician Tony Benn have issued a call for papers. Titled The Benn Legacy, the event will take place on the Marylebone Campus of the University of Westminster on 12-13 April 2025, marking the centenary of Benn’s birth. Speakers will include Yanis Varoufakis, Grace Blakeley, Frances O’Grady and Jeremy … Continue reading Conference call: The Benn Legacy
Runing until 20 October 2024, Radical Halifax is a unique art exhibition, historical enquiry, and political intervention that seeks to recover hidden histories of the Yorkshire town’s radical past and demonstrate how people from, or with a strong connection to, Halifax have played important roles in transformative movements that sought to build a better world. The exhibition will include artworks by local artist Marcus Jack, … Continue reading Radical Halifax exhibition: from the Luddites to peace campaigners
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. Continue reading Study day: Protest movements, political dissent and social struggles in Britain, 1811-1914
The organisers of this year’s HistoryLab+ conference report back from an event focused on human exploitation and its legacies. The day was supported by the Society for the Study of Labour History. This year’s HistoryLab+ conference took place at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE), and focused on the histories of human exploitation and its legacies. The event took place … Continue reading Legacies of colonialism and enslavement: HistoryLab+ annual conference 2024
More than sixty years after his death, Aneurin Bevan remains a core figure in the story of the Labour Party and the left. A book by Nye Davies that sets out to explore Bevan’s political thinking appears this autumn and is to be launched at an event hosted by Llafur, the Welsh People’s History Society, in Bevan’s home town of Tredegar. Published by the University … Continue reading Book launch: the political thought of Aneurin Bevan
Chartism Day 2024 took place at the University of Reading. One hundred years on from the birth of the great Chartist historian Dorothy Thompson, the event sought to honour her intellectual legacy with a wide-ranging selection of papers that highlighted the field’s continuing vigour. Dorothy Thompson was ‘formidable’, and would not have minded in the least being described as such, Dr Joan Allen told delegates … Continue reading Chartism Day 2024 report: centennial event in honour of Dorothy Thompson’s intellectual legacy
A photographic exhibition marking the fortieth anniversary of the miners’ strike of 1984-85 opens on 20 September 2024 at Four Corners in Bethnal Green, London. It offers free entry, and runs until 19 October. Continue reading ONE YEAR! Photographs from the miners’ strike, 1984-1985
Chartism Day 2024 takes place on 7 September 2024. Online registration is now open. Continue reading Register now for Chartism Day 2024
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