HISTORY
& SOCIAL ACTION NEWS DIARY – 2
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Published
by History & Social Action Publications. Compiled and edited by Sean
Creighton. Dates of events for potential inclusion should be emailed to sean.creighton1947@btinternet.com.
December 2011
Croydon
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Festival 2012. I am delighted to be
able to include events (highlighted in green) in the Croydon Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor Festival throughout 2012 to mark the 100th
Anniversary of his death. It includes the world premiere of his opera Thelma, and a performance of Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast. More events are
still at planning stage. As a member of the SC-T Network I am on the Festival
Committee. A brochure is being finalised. Further events (inc. outside Croydon)
will be included in future editions of the Diary and posted on the SC-T Network
website: https://sites.google.com/site/samuelcoleridgetaylornetwork.
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Area/
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Event
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To early 2012
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Aldgate
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Archival
Tales: Uncovering Inter-war Black History Black History. Exhibition
by Gemma Romain delves deep into the Library's collections to uncover hidden
Black histories from 20s and 30s Britain. The Women's Library - Note 1.
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Until
4 April 2012
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Aldgate
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All
Work and Low Pay: The Story of Women and Work.
Free. This exhibition demonstrates the extraordinary range of jobs done by women over the past 150 years, from forging iron chains to assembling fine electrical components. It also charts women's struggle for workplace equality and recognition. Women’s Library - Note 1 |
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NOVEMBER
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Thursday 24
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The Right Kind of History by Sir David Cannadine, Jenny
Keating and Nicola Sheldon which takes a look at the teaching of history in
the 20th century is published today. (See interview with Cannadine in The Guardian Education, 22 November: www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/nov/21/history-teaching-reform-david-cannadine?newsfeed=true
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Thursday 24 & Friday 25
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3-8pm (Th)
8am-6pm (Fri)
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Vauxhall
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Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea: Open Days about the latest up-to-date information about the VNEB redevelopments: Northern
line extension; proposed improvements for pedestrians, cyclists, and local
public transport users; planned improvements to existing streets. 3D model of
the whole area.Venue: Market Towers, 1 Nine Elms Lane, London.
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Friday
25
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2pm
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Salford
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Strawberry
Thieves Choir.
Songs telling the story of worker’s struggles from 1649 linking historic
events to current efforts to resist cuts and privatisation. WCML, 51 The Crescent, Salford. 0161 736360. www.wcml.org.uk.
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6-8pm
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Balham
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The History of Chocolate. Talk by Sara Jayne Staynes, Director of the Academy of Culinary Arts
and food writer. Includes a chocolate tasting and a glass of wine as well as
sample chocolates to take away. To attend ring 020 7228 4873. Organised by
the Thurleigh Road GP practice, with the Battersea Society. Venue: The
Studio, 88a Thurleigh Road. £10
(includes raffle)
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Saturday 26
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10am-6pm
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Liverpool St
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Histories of Activism Conference. Organised by Northumbria University's
Histories of Activism research group, in association with the Society for the
Study for Labour History. It will explore forms of political activism across
Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Conference programme: www.sslh.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16&Itemid=29.
As places are limited, those wishing to attend should contact Vanessa
Sherriffs at vanessa.sherriffs@northumbria.ac.uk
to register their interest.
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1pm
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Ditto
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Society for the Study of Labour History AGM; as part of above Conference.
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11am-5pm
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Battersea
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Christmas in Battersea High Street.
Organised by Battersea High Street Traders
Association. Battersea High Street (York Road end)
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9.30am-4pm
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Kings
Cross
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Inspiring School History. The British Library, St. Pancras, 96 Euston Rd., NW1. Presentations: Michael Wood - Local
History and the National Story; Christine
Counsell - Disciplinary history for all: why it matters, why it is
achievable and why we should not give up; Workshops focussing on a range of strategies to enrich students'
learning in history. Resources exhibition, An opportunity to view the British
Library's Royal Manuscripts: The
Genius of Illumination exhibition. £120 inc. lunch & refreshments. Limited number of places
available at a reduced rate for PGCE
interns of £90. Places are allocated on 'first come' basis. For
booking details go to www.schoolshistoryproject.org.uk/conference/courses/regionconf.htm.
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Saturday
26
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12.40m
& 4pm
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Manchester
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Engels
and Marx Part 1. New Manchester Walk starting at
Oxford Road station and Part 2
the same day at 2pm starting outside St Anns' Church. Price £6 waged /£5
concessions. Further details at www.newmanchesterwalks.com
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2-5pm
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Chiswick
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West London
Labour History Day.
Louise Rawe on the Bryant & May Matchwomen’s strike 1888. Ivan Gibbons on
Ramsey MacDonald and Ireland. £4/£2. Labour Heritage. Labour Party Hall. 376
Chiswick High Rd, W4. Refreshments. Contact John Grigg: 020 8743 4189; john.grigg@btinternet.com.
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Monday
28
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7pm
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Carlisle
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The Silk Road in History
from 55BC to AD550. Professor John Thorley. Historical Association Branch
Event. Old Town Hall, Carlisle, CA3 8JE.
Prospective members are always welcome. For further
information, please contact Ian Mason, branch secretary on 01228 819146
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Tuesday
29
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11am
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Manchester
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The
Pankhursts. New Manchester Walk starting outside Malmaison
Hotel. Price £6 waged /£5 concessions. Further details at www.newmanchesterwalks.com.
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5.15pm
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Russell
Square
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7pm
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Plymouth
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Did Democracy Cause the
American Civil War? Dr Adam Smith,
University College London. Historical Association Branch Event. Theatre 2,
Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth. Visitor tickets £5,
concessions £3. For more information, please contact Alan H. Cousins, 3 Fore
Street, St Germans, Cornwall PL12 5NR. Tel. 01503 230106; email a.cousins345@btinternet.com
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Wednesday
30
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All
day
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Nationwide
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Trade
Union Day of Action
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10.30am
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Gateshead
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TUC
march and rally. Assemble Gateshead Civic Centre,
march to rally at Spillers Wharf, Newcastle from 12pm.
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2pm
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Salford
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Radical
Gardening.
George McKay. Talk about his book. Working Class Movement Library. POSTPONED DUE TO DAY OF TU DAY OF ACTION
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7pm
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King’s
Cross
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Financial
crisis: where we are and how we got here?
Greek Professor of Economic
Theory, Yanis Varoufakis, discusses the fundamental and historical problems
within Anglo-Saxon capitalism. Housmans - Note 3.
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7.30pm
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Stockwell
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'Hang
Ups', a short film by ShadowStage Productions combines
contemporary shadow theatre and digital media techniques based on a short
piece by award-winning writer Eley Williams. Part of Lost Theatre’s Festival
programme of 5 minute works 28 November to 1 December. Tickets £5/night. Leon
Conrad, multi-talented resident of Kennington, is part of SSP: www.shadowstage.co.uk. Lost Theatre: http://losttheatre.co.uk.
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DECEMBER
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Thursday
1
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7pm
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London
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3rd Positive Money Meetup in London. Hub Kings Cross, 34B York Way, NI. www.meetup.com/Positive-Money/events/40813952.
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7.30pm
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Nottingham
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The Assassination of
Spencer Percival, Prime Minister, in 1812. Dr Gordon Pentland (Edinburgh University). Historical Branch event - all
welcome. Room B14, Department of History (Lenton Grove), University Park,
Nottingham.
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Saturday
3
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10.30
for 11am
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Liverpool
St
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Young
historians take to the street: school students tackling the big picture of
race, protest and immigration control. Martin Spafford. In 1995 thirty 11
year olds in an East London school spent several months looking at the world
of asylum seekers and the politics of immigration control. Last year ten 15
year olds from the same school worked with historians to investigate fascist
assaults on the East End over time and how local people have responded. These
projects took them onto the streets, into detention centres, to Parliament
and even into direct confrontation with organised racism. Present and former
students from George Mitchell School will show clips from their films and discuss
with their teacher Martin Spafford the impact of such projects - at the time
and in later life – on their politics and values. Public History Discussion
Group. Bishopsgate Institute – Note 4.
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1-5pm
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Battersea
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Christmas
on St John's Hill
(between Plough Road and Marcilly Road)
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2-5pm
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Battersea
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Christmas
in the Garden. Come along to the Doddington Community Roof
Garden, and enjoy an afternoon of Christmas cheer: carols, tree decorating,
children's activities, mulled wine and apple juice. Venue: Doddington
Community Roof Garden, Doddington Estate, Battersea Park Rd.
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7.30pm
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Wandsworth Town
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Bach
B Minor Mass. South West London Choral Society 125th year Anniversary concert. Its President,
the counter-tenor, James Bowman, will be one of the singers. St Anne's Church, St Ann's Hill,
Wandsworth, London SW18. www.swlcs.org.uk/people.html.
Many of my readers will know the Society’s Vice-President Lilias Gillias, a
Labour and community activist.
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Monday 5
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5.30pm
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Senate House
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7.30pm
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Battersea
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No Political Evictions in Battersea. Public Meeting.
Wandsworth Against
Cuts and supported by Battersea & Wandsworth Trades Council and Defend
Council Housing. Speakers: MPs John McDonnell & Austin Mitchell; Emma
Norton (Liberty); Eileen Short (Defend Council Housing);
Chaz Singh (Education
Activist Network). Doddington Estate Community Centre, Charlotte Despard
Avenue, Battersea Park Road (behind Tesco). Visit www.wandsworthagainstcuts.co.uk
and sign on line petitions against cuts and in defence of playgrounds.
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Tuesday 6
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5.15pm
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Senate House
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The
South Sea Company (working title). Patrick Walsh (Trinity College
Dublin). IHR British Maritime History Seminar. Venue to be announced. Senate
House – Note 2.
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The Cost of
Inequality. Three Decades of the Super-Rich and the Economy by Stewart Lansley (published by Gibson Square). Launch of. Some of my
readers will remember that Stewart was a member of Wandsworth Poverty Action
Group/People’s Rights and developed jointly with another member the idea of
Housing Allowances at the time of the Housing Finance Bill controversy.
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7pm
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Newcastle
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North
East Popular Politics Project Panel. Four Project
members will introduce their work followed by a discussion. North East Labour
History First Tuesday meeting. 7pm. Irish Centre, Gallowgate.
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Wednesday 7
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7pm
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Aldgate
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Gertrude
Tuckwell: 'Lose not these things that we have wrought’.
To mark 150 years since the birth of Gertrude Tuckwell. Tuckwell led the Women's Trade Union League and campaigned for many issues including women's political and employment rights. With Catherine Hunt, Coventry University and Chris Coates, TUC Library Collections. Women’s Library – Note 1. SOLD OUT |
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7pm
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King’s Cross
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Remembering
Colin Ward with Carl Levy and Ruth Kinna. Presented by
Anarchist Studies The
latest issue of ‘Anarchist Studies’ is being launched today at Housmans to
celebrate the life and work of Colin Ward. Ward was one of the best known
anarchist writers of his generation and his work on children and play, urban
architecture and plotlands, squatting and criminology, water resources and
public transportation - to name a few pursuits - broadened his appeal to a
wide range of architects, historians social scientists and activists – as
well as anarchists. Ward was the editor of ‘Anarchy’ (1961-1970), perhaps the
best English language anarchist revue. Housmans – Note 3.
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Thursday 8
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4-6pm
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Battersea
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Christmas
on Lavender Hill. A festive art collaboration, from the Arts team
at Avant Garden and the children at local schools. Working with the artists,
the children have created their own lanterns that will lead a procession of
light down Lavender Hill to the Gideon Estate, meeting up with The UK Gospel
Choir for some carol singing. The official celebrity 'switch-on' is at 5pm
across the road from LIFE Hair salon (69, Lavender Hill). Enjoy a
complimentary bowl of curry to warm you up, courtesy of Noiya Restaurant and
sip a glass of mulled wine at Elephant on the Hill.
Organised by Lavender Hill Traders Association. |
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Saturday 10
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2.30pm
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Bournemouth
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Britain and Decolonisation
after 1945; British Counter Insurgency Campaigns 1945- 1967. Prof David French, formerly
University College, London. Joint Lecture Historical Association branch with
Bournemouth Natural Science Society. Free. Bournemouth University.
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Sunday 11
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6.45-10pm
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Battersea
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Battersea Midwinter Revue: Celebrating the Left in Music, Drama,
Satire with Battersea stars, Timothy West, Prunella
Scales, Su Elliott, Clause IV musicians, Hot Tamales jazz ensemble and many
others. Lower Hall, Battersea Arts
Centre, Lavender Hill, SW11 (entrance off Theatre Street). £20 ticket + glass
of wine. Table of six (buy five + get one free) £100 + free glasses wine. £10
concessions ticket + glass of wine. Cheques payable to Battersea Labour Party. Online
payment to Unity Bank Sort Code 08-60-01, Acct no 20081290 – giving
reference: BLP Revue. Ticket sales
will get email acknowledgement. Tickets will then be delivered within local
area; otherwise for collection at entrance to BAC Lower Hall on the night. For further information, please
contact
p.corfield@btconnect.com;
tonybelton@btconnect.com;
beccyprice85@gmail.com. Organised by Battersea Labour Party.
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Monday 12
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5pm
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Senate House
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Slavery, Piracy and Party Politics: Gulliver's
Travels and the Imperial Crisis c. 1715-1728. Steven
Pincus (Yale). IHR Imperial and World History Seminar at the Institute of
Historical Research. Athlone Room (Room 102). Senate House – Note 2.
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5.30pm
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Ditto
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William Cuffay, Black Chartist and Londoner. Keith Flett. London Socialist Historians
Seminar. Room G34 South Block, Senate House – Note 2.
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Wednesday 14
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5.15pm
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Ditto
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Space, place, and popular politics in northern
England, 1789-1848. Katrina Navickas (University
of Hertfordshire. IHR Long Eighteenth
Century Seminar. Court room, South block, first floor – Note 2.
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Thursday 15
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5pm
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Ditto
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Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know? The
United Kingdom in 1820. Malcolm Chase (Leeds). IHR British History Seminar 1815-1945. Bedford Room G37.
Senate House – Note 2.
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Closing Date for
submission of proposals for papers for the Black Church Conference (see
below).
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JANUARY
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Friday 6
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8pm
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Croydon
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Festival
Civic Reception Launch hosted by the Mayor of Croydon, Councillor
Graham Bass in the Mayor’s Parlour, Croydon Town Hall, Katherine Street.
During the evening there will performances of SC-T’s music. By invitation
only.
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Monday 16
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6.45 for 7.15pm
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Kennington
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Cholera on the Lambeth Waterfront: the outbreak of the 1840s. Talk by author Amanda J Thomas on her new book about the living
conditions and fate of Lambeth's forgotten waterfront community - and how her
research has shown that cholera could strike again. Friends of Durning Library. Durning
Library, 167 Kennington Lane. £2 towards costs (inc, refreshments).
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Tuesday 17
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6pm
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Durham
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The Jarrow Crusade: Protest & Legend. Dr Matt Perry,
University of Newcastle. Historical Association Branch event. St Giles' Church
Hall, St. Giles' Church, Gilesgate, Durham. For further details: Professor G
R Batho, Miners Hall, Red Hill, Durham, DH1 4BB. Day Tel: 0191 370 9941 Evening
Tel : 07980276467. E-mail: gordon.batho@btopenworld.com.
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Wednesday 18
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8pm
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Croydon
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – ‘A Background.’ A talk by Jeffrey Green, author of ‘Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a
Musical Life’ and acknowledged authority on S C-T, followed by a short
recital of some of SC-T’s songs sung by Jane Streeton and Greg Tassel.
Venue – The Sanderson Room, Trinity School, Shirley, Croydon.
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Wednesday 25
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7.45pm
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Tunbridge Wells
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The presence of black people in Kent since 1600. David Killingray.
Tunbridge Wells
Museum.
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Saturday 28
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10.30am-4.30pm
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Aldgate
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Opening
the Cage Door. This day will look at some of the most prominent
strikes of the 19th & 20th century when many working women were forced to
protest against low wages and poor working conditions. With contributions
from Louise Raw, author and historian, Anitha Sundari, University of Lincoln,
Ruth Pearson, University of Leeds, trade unionist Viv MacKay, and curator of
'All Work and Low Pay', Clare Rose. £16 / £14 concessions. Women’s Library –
Note 1.
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Monday 30
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7pm
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Carlisle
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The General Strike and the
Railways: strikers and volunteers. Professor Robin Smith. Assembly Room of the Old
Town Hall, Carlisle, CA3 8JE
Historical Association Branch
event. Prospective members are always welcome. For further information,
please contact Ian Mason, branch secretary on 01228 819146.
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Tuesday 31
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1pm
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Croydon
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Lunchtime
Concert by students from the Croydon Piano Centre at the Fairfield Halls,
Croydon featuring piano music by SC-T.
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FEBRUARY
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Saturday 4
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10.30 for 11am
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Liverpool St
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The 1984/85 Miners' Strike: Re-claiming Cultural Heritage. Michael Bailey (University of Essex) & Simon Popple
(University of Leeds). Shortly after the 1984/85 miners' strike had come to an
end, the socialist historian Raphael Samuel noted that the meaning of the
strike would be determined not 'by the terms of settlement ... or even by the
events of the past year but by the way in which it is assimilated in popular
memory, by ... retrospective understanding both in the pit villages
themselves and in the country at large'. The significance of Samuel's remark
is that, though the 1984/85 strike was a decisive defeat for mining
communities, it is imperative that such communities are encouraged to
participate in the creation of new representations and social rituals that
seek to democratise the mediation of the strike. Not only because such texts
hold out the promise of raising public awareness of what actually happened
twenty-five years ago but because they also provide affirmation for those
miners and families most affected by the strike-action and the subsequent
closure of pits. This presentation discusses the two AHRC/BBC funded projects
undertaken on this between autumn 2007 and summer 2009 by a small team from
the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds. Public History
Discussion Group. Bishopsgate Institute – Note 4.
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Thursday 9
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7pm
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Aldgate
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Friends
from the Vera Holme Archive: Edith Craig and Evelina Haverfield. Find
out about two of the women who had strong ties with leading suffragette Vera
Holme. Sandy Wilson presents highlights of her research on Evelina
Haverfield, a member of the National Union of Suffrage Societies who took
part in many demonstrations and spent a time in Holloway prison. The Women's
Library – Note 1
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Thursday 9 & Friday 10
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6pm
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Croydon
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Thelma – My discovery
of Coleridge-Taylor's manuscripts. Pre-performance
talk by Catherine Carr (PhD) prior to:
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Thursday 9, Friday 10, Saturday
11
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7.30pm
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Ditto
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World Première performances of SC-T’s rediscovered opera THELMA, op. 72 by
Surrey Opera at The Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon. Conductor – Jonathan Butcher,
Director – Christopher Cowell, Designer – Bridget Kimack.
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Tuesday 14
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1pm
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Ditto
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John Law Trio Lunchtime Concert. Fairfield Halls, including some jazz versions of SC-T compositions.
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Friday 17
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Tba
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Cambridge
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Black people in English localities: sources and
significance. David Killingray.
British Association for Local History lecture series at Wolfson College,
Cambridge.
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Monday 20
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6.45 for 7.15pm
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Kennington
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Chris Mullin, ex-MP, will talk about the third and final
volume of his widely acclaimed diaries. A Walk-on Part, the first book
chronologically, covers the rise of New Labour in 1994 -1999. Friends of
Durning Library. Durning Library, 167 Kennington Lane. £2 towards costs inc.
refreshments.
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Thursday 23-Saturday 25
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London
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Challenging History
Conference: understanding aims,
audiences and outcomes in work with difficult and sensitive heritages. Since 2009, the Challenging History group has been
working with heritage professionals, practitioners and academics in order to
explore and interrogate issues raised in work with difficult, contested and
sensitive heritages in a range of museum contexts, within and beyond the UK.
The project acknowledges that all history is - to a greater or lesser degree
- challenging, and encourages practitioners to consider how heritage
interpretation can better acknowledge this complexity at its core.
In 2012, we wish to bring together those working in disparate and diverse locations and disciplines to help explore the practicalities, limitations and ethical implications of work in this knotty area of heritage interpretation. The programme will foster collaboration and shared understanding between academia and the heritage sector, and offer opportunities for networking, demonstrating approaches and practice, and presenting empirical research. For more about Challenging History, or the conference (including registration) please visit http://challenginghistoryconference.wordpress.com/. |
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Saturday 25
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Senate House
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A
history of riots. Speakers include Neil Davidson on 'From riots in
Glasgow & Edinburgh in 1706 to riots in the Global South in 2011'. London
Socialist Historians Group. For further details check up-dates on
http://londonsocialisthistorians.blogspot.com.
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MARCH
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Saturday 10
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10.30 for 11am
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Liverpool St
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Memory, place, identity. Christine McCauley MA (RCA) University of Westminster. ‘It started as an exploration of her troubled
relationship with my father, a veteran of the Burma conflict during WW2 and
resulted in 2 journeys to the North Eastern frontier states of India,
searching for the remnants of the British presence there and the 'ties that
bind' countries and peoples geographically so far apart. As a mixed media artist I use a wide range of media and techniques.
The evocative potential of materials and processes is an important part of my
practice.’ Public History Discussion Group. Bishopsgate Institute – Note 4.
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Thursday 15
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London
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Youth and Policy Conference. Thinking Seriously about...Youth Work and Policy. Youth and Policy’s
fourth ‘thinking seriously’ conference will explore current youth policy and
consider its implications for the youth work field. The conference aims to
bring together political, academic, managerial and practice perspectives for
open dialogue about policy affecting young people and youth work. Over recent
months, many events have taken place with subsequent policy implications for
youth work organisation and practice. Following the implementation of
Coalition spending cuts, the Select Committee on Services for Young People,
and the riots of summer 2011, a conference to reflect on these events and
their consequences in early 2012 is timely and useful. We hope that the
conference will present a challenge to practitioners, managers and academics
to consider the new landscape, and how policy and practice might be better
shaped in the light of evidence and experience. YMCA George Williams College, Canning Town
London. £90.
Further details from conferences@youthandpolicy.org.
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Thursday 23
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8pm
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Croydon
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor music inc. in recital by students from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music
and Dance: Sonata in D minor, op. 28 for violin & piano, Trio in E minor
op. 6 for violin, 'cello & piano and his Nonet, op. 2 for 2 violins,
viola, 'cello, bass, clarinet, bassoon, horn & piano. Venue – The Concert
Hall, Whitgift School, Haling Park, Nottingham Rd. South Croydon, CR2 6YT.
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APRIL
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Tuesday 3
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Lunchtime
Concert:
Fred Scott, Megan Whitely, Cornelius Bruinsma, Nick Simonon (various items
inc Samuel Coleridge-Taylor). In aid of Skeletal Cancer Action Trust. http://scatbonecancertrust.org.
Fred is a member of the SC-T Network and on the Croydon SC-T Festival
Committee.
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Saturday 28
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10.30 for 11am.
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Liverpool St
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Mandeville Legacy: towards a public history of Disability.
Jon Newman, archive consultant. Jon Newman has
been working with Bucks County Council, Stoke Mandeville Hospital and various
sports disability charities to assemble a history of the changes to the
treatment of spinal injuries patients and the development of wheelchair games
- latterly the 'paralympic' movement - since the Second World War. Using the Revisiting
Collections methodology in conjunction with hospital and charity archive
collections he has worked with groups of former patients, athletes, hospital
staff and sports administrators to both capture their responses to the
'official' record and to create new narratives. Public History Discussion
Group. Bishopsgate Institute – Note 4. Note: Jon Newman is author of HSAP’s
pamphlet Battersea’s Global Reach
about Price’s Candles.
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MAY
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Tuesday 15
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5pm
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Russell Square
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Black people in English localities: sources and
significance. David Killingray. VCH
Locality and Regional History seminar, IHR, Stewart House room 273 – next to
Senate House – Note 2.
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Thursday 24
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8pm
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Croydon
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Music Recital by students from
the Royal College of Music, including
Piano
Quintet in G minor, op. 1, Fantasiestücke for String Quartet, op. 5 and
his Clarinet Quintet in A major, op. 10. The Braithwaite Hall, Croydon
Library, Katherine Street, Croydon.
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Tuesday 29 & Wednesday
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London
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Black Church
Activism and Contested Multiculturalism in Europe, North America, and South
Africa.
Conference at Birkbeck, University of London. Call for Papers by December 15:
www.bbk.ac.uk/bih/news/blackchurchescallforpapers
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JUNE
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Monday 18 –Wednesday 20 (prov)
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Preston
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Whose
history is it anyway? ‘Public’ history in perspective Conference. Location:
University of Central Lancashire, Preston. Further details from Dr Andy
Gritt, AJGritt1@uclan.ac.uk ).
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Thursday 21
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Lunch-time
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Kew
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The
Edwardian Roller Skating Boom. Sean Creighton. Talk with reference to archive
material at TNA. National Archives, Kew.
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Saturday 23
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7.30pm
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Croydon
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s A
Tale of Old Japan will be
performed in Summer Concert by the Croydon Bach Choir,
conductor Tim Horton. St
Matthew's Church, Chichester Road, East Croydon.
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JULY
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Tuesday 3 & Wednesday 4
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International Conference: Can biography survive?
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Wednesday 4 – Saturday 7 July
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Exact date & time tba
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Oxford
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The Revd Dr Theophilus Scholes (1856-c.1940):
black Baptist critic at the heart of Empire. Paper at Baptist Historical Society
conference 'Freedom and the Powers: Perspectives from Baptist History',
Regent's College, Oxford. See www.baptisthistory.org.uk/basicpage.php?contents=news&page_title=News.
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AUGUST
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Wednesday 15
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8pm
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Croydon
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Birthday Celebration (on the actual day SC-T was born
100 years ago). Details to be finalised.
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SEPTEMBER
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Saturday 1
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11am
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Ditto
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An SC-T Picnic Pilgrimage on the actual
day he died, 100 years ago. Commencing at St Mary Magdalene, Canning Road,
Addiscombe (parking available) we will walk to various houses, churches etc.
where SC-T lived, worked, sung, got married etc. ending up at Aldwick, St
Leonards Rd, where he died. Picnics can then be consumed on Dupass Hill
Recreation Ground. If the weather is inclement we can eat our picnics in the
Parish Church Junior School. Jeffrey
Green, author of Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor, a Musical Life will give informal talks along the
route.
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Wednesday 5 – Friday 7
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Winchester
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In the Loop
3. The voices of knitting. International
conference.
Keynote speakers: Carol Christiansen, Jonathan Faiers, Jessica Hemmings,
Hazel Hughson, Martin Polley. Papers that cross geographical or chronological
boundaries in the following areas are of particular interest: discovery and
exploration; representation in film, literature, music, poetry and the
internet; wellbeing and therapy; in sport; voices from across the world; adornment.
Deadline for abstracts: March 1. www.soton.ac.uk/intheloop.
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Sunday 16
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6.30pm
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Croydon
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Festival Civic Service - Festival
Evensong at Croydon Minster, Church Street, Croydon sung by an
augmented Minster Choir - Organist & Master of the Choristers, Andrew
Cantrill. A celebration of music and the arts in Croydon!
Evening Service (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis) in F by SC-T
Psalm 150, Laudate Dominum, ‘O Praise God in his Holiness.’
Chant by Sir C. V. Stanford
Anthem ‘By the waters of Babylon’ Psalm 137 by SC-T
Hymn tunes - Luconor, ‘Jesu, the very thought of Thee’ by SC-T
and Engelberg, ‘For all the Saints’ by Stanford
Organ voluntaries and solos also by SC-T & Stanford
After the service the choir sing part-songs by SC-T as wine is
served to the congregation.
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Thursday 20 – Saturday 22
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York
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Histories of
British Art, 1660-1735: reconstruction and transformation. “Court, Country,
City: British Art, 1660-1735” 3rd and final
Conference of University of York and Tate Britain. Conference spaces are
limited and priority will be given to speakers. Call for papers by 2 March.
Further information from claudine.vanhensbergen@tate.org.uk.
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OCTOBER
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Throughout
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Croydon
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Exhibition. Croydon Public Library and a window display at
Waterstones bookshop in the Whitgift Centre.
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To be finalised
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8pm
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Ditto
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor on Radio and Television. A rare opportunity to hear BBC recordings of two
programmes about SC-T - Great Lives and Hidden History. Some lantern slides
will also be shown plus a performance of SC-T’s ‘Cello Variations on an
Original Theme. The Sanderson Room, Trinity School, Shirley, Croydon.
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Ditto
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8pm
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Ditto
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto in G Minor, op. 80.,
will be performed by The London
Mozart Players. Fairfield Halls.
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NOVEMBER
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To be finalised
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8pm
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Ditto
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On writing a novel about Coleridge Taylor. Talk by Charles Elford, author of Black Mahler followed by a short recital
of some of SC-T’s songs sung by Patricia Robertson and Paul Sheehan. Braithwaite Hall, Croydon Library, Katherine
Street, Croydon.
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DECEMBER
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To be finalised
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1pm
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Ditto
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Songs. Lunchtime Concert by the Trinity Boys Choir at the
Fairfield Halls, Croydon
featuring songs and part songs by SC-T.
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Ditto
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7.30pm
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Ditto
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Hiawatha’s
Wedding Feast. A Gala Performance. Trinity School Arts Centre, Shirley, Croydon.
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Note 1. Women’s Library, London Metropolitan
University, 25 Old Castle Street, London, E1 7NT. Talk events usually cost £8/£6 concessions. 020 7320 2222; moreinfo@thewomenslibrary.ac.uk
Note 2. Senate House is the venue for Institute of
Historical Research Seminars. It is between Malet St , London, WC1 (from Goodge
St Northern Line station) and Russell Square.
Note 3. Housmans
Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, King’s Cross, London, N1. 020 7837 4473. shop@housmans.com. www.housmans.com. Cost of events £3, redeemable against any purchase.
Note 4. Public History Discussion Group. All meetings
take place at the Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 4QH. http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk. This
is a few minutes walk from Liverpool Street station (in the direction of
Shoreditch and Spitalfields market) and on the corner with Brushfield Street.
Please bring your own coffee – lots of places nearby. Please direct any queries
or suggestions for future sessions / offers of presentations to Dr Hilda Kean,
convenor of the group: hkean@ruskin.ac.uk.
Compiled by Sean Creighton
History & Social Action Publications
November 2011
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