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, SSLH news

Chartism Day 2023 report: ‘You tyrants of England! Your race may soon be run…’

This year’s Chartism Day was in Sheffield, with papers on the land plan, the poet Thomas Cooper, the ‘paper pantheon’, Chartism’s first historian of the modern era, and the lives of Chartists in France Held on Saturday 17 June, Chartism Day 2023 opened with a fitting tribute to Stephen Roberts – the organiser of the first such event in 1995, and a leading Chartist historian … Continue reading Chartism Day 2023 report: ‘You tyrants of England! Your race may soon be run…’

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Waiting for Wesley: torn between church and rebellion

Set during the events of August 1842 in the Calder Valley, the specially written play Waiting for Wesley is to be performed this summer at Halifax Museum. Commissioned by Heptonstall Museum, written by Michael Crowley and first performed in August 2022 by The Brutish Multitude Theatre Company, the play has since been developed as a result of audience feedback to include the character of Ben … Continue reading Waiting for Wesley: torn between church and rebellion

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Moral Economy at the Crossroads of History and Social Sciences: Finding Customs in Common?

Call for papers: a workshop on Moral Economy at the Crossroads of History and Social Science is to take place at the University of Strathclyde in November 2023. Contributions are invited from academic researchers, practitioners, and activists. Abstracts of 250 words are due by 31 August. The event is supported by the Society for the Study of Labour History and the University of Strathclyde. Download … Continue reading Moral Economy at the Crossroads of History and Social Sciences: Finding Customs in Common?

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‘Singing Sweet Liberty’: Michael Sanders’ inaugural professorial lecture

Mike Sanders, Professor of Nineteenth Century Literature & Culture at the University of Manchester and a member of the Society’s executive committee, delivered his inaugural professorial lecture at the John Rylands Library on Wednesday 31 May. The lecture was titled ‘Singing Sweet Liberty’: John Stafford and the creation of radical memory from Luddism to Chartism. The lecture explored the role played by song in creating … Continue reading ‘Singing Sweet Liberty’: Michael Sanders’ inaugural professorial lecture

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Collective action, associational culture and the politics of organisation in Britain and Ireland, c.1790-1914

Save the date for a two-day conference at Durham University this summer titled ‘Organise! Organise! Organise! Collective Action, Associational Culture and the Politics of Organisation in Britain and Ireland, c.1790-1914’. REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN. Registration closes 17 July 2023. All are also welcome to attend the book launch for Henry Miller’s A Nation of Petitioners: Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780-1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023). … Continue reading Collective action, associational culture and the politics of organisation in Britain and Ireland, c.1790-1914

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Compassion and care: emotions and experience in the care of children through history

Kate Gibson reports on a conference that explored the richness and diversity of current research into experiences of care, and the need for researchers to reflect on the way they approach and interpret archives of care. The Society for the Study of Labour History funded five bursaries to enable postgraduates to attend the conference ‘Compassion and Care: Emotions and Experience in the Care of Children … Continue reading Compassion and care: emotions and experience in the care of children through history

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Commemorating British labour history: a triple anniversary

This is a year of labour history anniversaries. Both the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick and the South Wales Miners Library at Swansea University hit their fiftieth birthdays in 2023, while the august Marx Memorial Library reaches its ninetieth. The three organisations are organising a joint online symposium titled Commemorating British Labour History: Foundations and Future Plans with talks that celebrate the … Continue reading Commemorating British labour history: a triple anniversary

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Visions of labour and class in Ireland and Europe

The Irish Labour History Society (ILHS), with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) and its Northern Ireland Committee, is holding its third international conference in Dublin from 14-17 September 2023. The event will feature national and international experts and labour movement practitioners in over 30 events at four venues. Titled Visions of Labour and Class in Ireland and Europe, the conference will include 10 … Continue reading Visions of labour and class in Ireland and Europe

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Ascott Martyrs 150th anniversary events

Early in 1873, farmworkers who had formed a branch of the National Agricultural Labourers Union at Ascott-under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire were dismissed and strikebreakers from a neighbouring village brought in. Sixteen women from Ascott who tried to persuade the strike-breakers to switch sides and join the union were arrested, tried and sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour. In the uproar that followed, the women received a … Continue reading Ascott Martyrs 150th anniversary events

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Robert Rumble and the PMILSA Petition Submission to the Governor of Jamaica

In April 1938, the Poor Man’s Improvement and Land Settlement Association sent a petition to the Governor of Jamaica demanding a minimum wage for agricultural workers and peasants, and to bring an end to exploitation by the landowner, Lord Penrhyn, who managed his properties through agents in Jamaica from his home at Penrhyn Castle in North Wales. Chaired by Robert Rumble, the campaign succeeded in … Continue reading Robert Rumble and the PMILSA Petition Submission to the Governor of Jamaica

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