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.

Events

Worlds of Digital Labour: ITH conference

The 59th International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH) takes place at Linz, Austria, from 26-28 September 2024. Titled Worlds of Digital Labour, the event is organised by ITH in co-operation with the Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria, the Chamber of Labour of Vienna, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Politische Bildung and the City of Linz. … Continue reading Worlds of Digital Labour: ITH conference

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Chartism Day 2024: registration now open

Registration for Chartism Day is now open. The event is coming to the University of Reading for the first time in its twenty-nine year history, taking place on Saturday, 7 September, and is open to all. UPDATE: Chartism Day 2024 has now taken place. Read our report here. Professor Mike Sanders will deliver the keynote address on ‘Some passages in the Life of a (Tory) … Continue reading Chartism Day 2024: registration now open

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Events, Grants

Conference: HistoryLab+ at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation

Registration is now open and a final programme is available for the HistoryLab+ 2024 conference, taking place on 25-26 July 2024 at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull. Find out more and register. Speakers at panel sessions include Dr Chris Townsend on ‘The Economics of Antislavery Verse’, and Alexandra Dold on ‘Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander Novels: Representing … Continue reading Conference: HistoryLab+ at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation

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Conference: Gender, Family, and Deindustrialisation

The final conference programme for Gender, Family, and Deindustrialisation, the annual conference of the Deindustrialisation and the Politics of Our Time (DéPOT) partnership project is now live. See the full programme. Taking place from June 24-26 at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, the event features a number of extramural activities on the opening day, including a walk around Govan to better understand Glasgow’s shipbuilding … Continue reading Conference: Gender, Family, and Deindustrialisation

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Undoing 2007; Preparing for 2038: Abolition, Birmingham and Commemoration

Billed as ‘a day-long, co-productive community conversation, about Abolition, Birmingham, and Commemoration’, and convened and chaired by Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman, Undoing 2007; Preparing for 2038 will take place on Saturday 1 June at The Exchange, 3 Centenary Square, Birmingham B1 2DR. The event takes as its starting point the ‘deception’ of the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, and of ‘the state-sponsored jingoistic jamboree … Continue reading Undoing 2007; Preparing for 2038: Abolition, Birmingham and Commemoration

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Events, Labour history news

Solidarity, the law and how history preserves the memory of the 1984-85 miners’ strike

Two panel discussions hosted by the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School on the legacy of the 1984-85 miners’ strike are now available as podcasts on the Library’s Spotify channel The Miners’ Strike 40 Years On: State Repression, Solidarity and Civil Defence explores the role of the law, the state and communities in the 1984-85 miners’ strike with Lord John Hendy KC on the role … Continue reading Solidarity, the law and how history preserves the memory of the 1984-85 miners’ strike

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Events, Labour history news

Remembering the Preston Lockout 170 years on

Mike Sanders reports from a conference and exhibition marking a nine-months long industrial dispute that shaped the work of Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell. 2023 sees the 170th anniversary of the start of the Preston Lockout which began as a series of isolated strikes in August/September 1853 and became a general lockout in October 1853 before reverting to a strike in February 1854 which lasted … Continue reading Remembering the Preston Lockout 170 years on

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Remembering the miners’ strike, 1984-85

As events marking the fortieth anniversary of the 1984-85 miners’ strike continue, BBC Sounds has produced a five-part podcast series on the strike presented by the actor, writer and producer Jonny Owen. Among those contributing is Professor Keith Gildart, a member of the Society’s executive committee, and himself a former miner and expert in the historiography of the strike. Listen to Strike on BBC Sounds. … Continue reading Remembering the miners’ strike, 1984-85

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Labour, Health and Sunshine: The Alpine Sanatoria of the 1920s

From the late 19th century, the Alps were a sanctuary for tubercular patients. Supervised by Auguste Rollier – the ‘Sun Doctor’ – many recuperated through fraternity, labour, and the healing power of the sun… Speaker: Dr Ilaria Scaglia, Aston University.Date: 22 May 2024, 6pmVenue: Birmingham People’s History Archive, 2nd floor, Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret Street, B3 3BS.  This talk is free, all welcome, … Continue reading Labour, Health and Sunshine: The Alpine Sanatoria of the 1920s

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Marking the Great Preston Lockout 170 years on

The Great Preston Strike and Lockout was a momentous national event. It began as a series of isolated strikes at a small number of mills in August/September 1853, and became a general lockout involving most textile operatives that October. It once again became a strike in February 1854, though this time on a much larger scale, and continued until May 1854. The dispute was immortalized … Continue reading Marking the Great Preston Lockout 170 years on

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