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

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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Both Sides of the Barricade: Luddite Memorial Lecture 2023

During the Luddite and Peterloo period, many radical activists were ex-servicemen of the Napoleonic Wars. This year’s Luddite Memorial Lecture, titled Both Sides of the Barricade, looked at the soldiers and ex-servicemen in early nineteenth-century popular politics. During the evening, Professor Nick Mansfield of the University of Central Lancashire, the author of a two-volume labour history of rank-and-file soldiers, highlighted many of the ‘military radicals’ … Continue reading Both Sides of the Barricade: Luddite Memorial Lecture 2023

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Newport Chartist Convention 2023

The annual Newport Chartist Convention takes place this year on Saturday 4 November at St Woolos Cathedral, Newport. The convention runs from 9.30am to 4pm. The Convention is part of the Newport Rising Festival, which celebrates the Chartist rising of 1839, and is held annually. Speakers will include: Tickets cost £15.00 including lunch, tea and coffee, and will be available nearer to the Convention date … Continue reading Newport Chartist Convention 2023

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Finding the Funny: Sam Fitton and the Cotton Factory Times

Sam Fitton made his name as an insightful and funny cartoonist for the Cotton Factory Times, an immensely successful newspaper aimed at workers in Lancashire and Cheshire cotton mills which at its peak sold more than 50,000 copies a week. Beginning in 1907, Fitton would eventually contribute more than 400 cartoons for the paper, creating a unique visual record of the cotton industry, its workers … Continue reading Finding the Funny: Sam Fitton and the Cotton Factory Times

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Strike! The story of the Dunnes Stores strikers…

Ardent Theatre Company presents STRIKE! By Tracy Ryan and directed by Kirsty Patrick Ward. Dunne’s Stores, Dublin, July 1984: a South African grapefruit starts something that will take nearly three years to finish… It’s a hot, hot summer and Frankie Goes to Hollywood are riding high in the charts. At Dunne’s Store, shop assistant Mary Manning refuses to ring up a grapefruit, sticking to her … Continue reading Strike! The story of the Dunnes Stores strikers…

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Workers’ Playtime: culture and community in industrial Lancashire

Nineteenth century industrial Lancashire was a land of smoke and tall chimneys, fortunes for the Cotton Lords and misery for their workers, the ‘hands’. But that’s only part of the story.   Workers’ Playtime: culture and community in industrial Lancashire is an exhibition that goes beyond the factories to explore the cultures and communities created by the workers in pursuit of a better, fuller life … Continue reading Workers’ Playtime: culture and community in industrial Lancashire

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From student unions to trade unions: campus-based activism and beyond

This conference explored the different ways in which campus-based activism linked to wider goals of social and political change as well as tracing the conflicts that emerged in such settings. It brought together historians working on different countries and regions, with discussions that encourage comparative and transnational perspectives. The conference consisted of a two-day in-person workshop at Northumbria University (held on 12 and 13 January … Continue reading From student unions to trade unions: campus-based activism and beyond

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Big Jim Larkin: reflections on the identity, politics and legacy of a socialist and trade union leader

The first annual John Halstead Memorial Lecture in memory and in honour of a labour historian who served the Society for the Study of Labour History for six decades took place in the splendid Gothic Revival surroundings of the John Rylands Library on Saturday 29 October. The full video can be viewed below. More than sixty people were present in person or online to hear … Continue reading Big Jim Larkin: reflections on the identity, politics and legacy of a socialist and trade union leader

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Labour and Empire seminar series

The European Labour History Network (ELHN) Labour & Empire Working Group is organising a series of seminars for 2022-2023. Seminars will be at 4pm UK time/5pm Central European time on Zoom. They will last one and a half hours, with up to 45 minutes of presentation and 45 minutes of Q&A. To receive the Zoom link of the events and for any information, please contact the group organisers at: … Continue reading Labour and Empire seminar series

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The fragmentation of labour over imperial and racial issues, 1870s-1920s

Steven Parfitt reports from a conference at which he and other labour historians addressed issues of race and empire facing the seafarers’ union and outposts of the US Knights of Labor in Britain and elsewhere. Report on the Conference ‘Fragmented Powers: Confrontation and Cooperation in the English-speaking World’ From 23 to 25 June 2022, Yann Béliard, Joe Redmayne and I took part in the ‘Fragmented Powers’ conference, organised … Continue reading The fragmentation of labour over imperial and racial issues, 1870s-1920s

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