To Sunday 6 May. North City
Renaissance Exhibition. Centred on Sting’s
commissioned painting 'Northern City Renaissance, Newcastle, England'
(2004-2008) by American landscapist Stephen Hannock, this exhibition shows
scenes from the Newcastle Laing Art Gallery’s collection depicting the Tyne’s
sites of industrial shipbuilding and coalmining history. www.newcastlegateshead.com/whats-on/northern-city-renaissance-p618201?cm_mid=1204949&cm_crmid=%7B5C11700A-C12B-E111-93AC-1CC1DE6DBADB%7D&cm_medium=email
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Wednesday
22 February. 7pm. From ‘Wot Cheor Geordie ‘& ‘When the boats come in ‘to
the Baltic the Sage & the Millenium Bridge. Popular culture in the north
east since 1945. Natasha Vall (Teesside University). North East
Popular Politics Project talk. Newcastle Lit & Phil, Westgate Road. All
welcome. Her Bohemians and ‘Pitmen Painters’ in North
East England, 1930-1970 can be seen on www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/uploads/docs/050001.pdf. Details of her book Cultural
Region. North East England, 1945–2000.
(Manchester University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-07-1908-228. £60) can be seen on
http://us.macmillan.com/culturalregion/NastashaVall. Dave
Russell’s review of it is on http://tcbh.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/10/27/tcbh.hwr040.extract
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Friday. 24 February. 8pm. The
X-Factor in History - and the Story of Wandsworth's Low-Born Meritocrats. Talk by Penny Corfield (Emeritus
Professor of History, University of London). Wandsworth Historical Society.
www.wandsworthhistory.org. Friend's Meeting House,
Wandsworth High Street, SW18. Free.
Friday 24 February. 7pm. Concert at St Mary's Church. Jonathan Wilkeley's farewell concert
as Music Director before he moves on to pastures new. Jonathan will accompany
tenor Greg Tassell on the piano in a varied selection of English song including
music by Britten, Coates, Dring, Coward, Flanders and Swann and many others.
Greg will also include a song by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. St Mary's Church,
Battersea Church Road.
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Saturday 25 February.
Midday-5pm, History of Riots Conference. Room
350, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London,
WC1. The British riots of summer 2011 were a powerful reminder that rioting
is still on the agenda even in one of the centres of market capitalism.
Rioting has a long history and historical context. While authorities have
tended to use the language of criminality historians have often taken a
different view. The papers at this conference – the first to look at the
history of riots since the events of 2011, and the broader sweep from the
Arab Spring to the Occupy movements of that year – are based on original
research into a range of aspects of the riot in history. Speakers include:
·
Keith
Flett. The London Crowd and London riots
·
Sean Creighton: From
Revolution to New Unionism; the impact of Bloody Sunday on the development of
John Burns’s politics
·
Neil
Davidson: Riots around the Scottish Union negotiations in 1706 and the Global
South today
·
John
Newsinger: Memorial Day Massacre, a Chicago Police Riot
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noon. Registration starts.
12.30pm.
Papers and discussion including introduction: 4pm. Round Table discussion:
Understanding the history of riots today.
Entry
is £10 [£5 unwaged]. We ask people to donate in advance, if possible, to
speed registration on the day.
Cheques, payable to ‘ Keith Flett’, to 38 Mitchley Rd, London, N17. Inquiries to: keith1917@btinternet.com or call 07803 167266.
Historian
Penny Corfield’s reflections on riots can be seen in her September discussion
point at www.penelopejcorfield.co.uk/discussion-point_september.html
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Sunday 26 February. Clarion
Family Cycle Ride event
involving members of the Clarion Cycling Club arriving at the People's History Museum on
their penny farthings and vintage cycles, and then riding to the Working Class
Movement Library for a Clarion tea. Full details here. If you are planning to join
them please email enquiries@wcml.org.uk to let them know.
Tuesday 28 February. 9.30-11am. ‘Changing Gear - Is
Localism the new Regionalism?’ Seminar
organised by Smith Institute with
Regional Studies Association. Venue Parliament.
The seminar will take an in-depth look at the Government’s recent
changes to regional, local and sub-local economic development. It will also see
the launch of a collection of essays by leading experts on the regionalism and
localism debate which has been edited by Michael Ward (Research Fellow, the
Smith Institute) and Sally Hardy (Chief Executive, Regional Studies
Association). Speakers: Hilary Benn MP
(Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government), David Ward MP (Member, BIS Select
Committee), Professor David Bailey
(Professor of International Business Strategy and Economics, Coventry
University and Chair of the Regional Studies Association) and Michael Ward. To attend email localism@smith-institute.org.uk as
soon as possible.
Monday
5 March. 6-8pm. The past in today’s politics: a debate on the state of
history-writing as a political act. Panel
members :
·
Professor Virginia Berridge (London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine and co-founder of ‘History & Policy’)
·
Dr
Maurice Glasman (Reader in Political Theory at London Metropolitan University
and Labour Peer)
·
Dr Mark Levene
(University of Southampton)
·
Professor Lynne Segal (Birkbeck College, University of London).
Chair:
Gareth Stedman Jones (Director
of the Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge, Fellow of King's College,
Cambridge University and Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary,
University of London). Venue: Eliot Room, British Library Conference Centre, 96
Euston Road, London, NW1. Booking essential as seating is limited: to book
please email Katy Pettit - k.pettit@uel.ac.uk.
Friday
9 March. 1.15pm. Hannah
Mitchell Foundation – Public. The
newly-formed Hannah Mitchell Foundation, ‘an ethical socialist campaign for
regional government in the North’ is holding its public launch in Bradford’s
City Hall. www.hannahmitchell.org.uk. See my blog:
Should the North have devolved government? http://historyandsocialaction.blogspot.com.
Friday
9 March. 8pm. Commemoration of George Brown. George
lived most of his life in Harpurhey and was active in fighting for the rights
of the Irish working class, through his trade union work and later in the
General Strike of 1926. His later involvement with the Communist Party led him
to go to Spain to enlist in the International Brigade. He died, summarily shot
by Franco's forces, as he lay on the roadside after being wounded at Brunete in
1937. Irish World Heritage Centre,
10 Queens Road, Manchester M8 . The event is part of the Manchester Irish
Festival - more information here. Admission is free.
Saturday 10 March. 2pm. No
Respecter of Persons – The Impact of Quaker
Persecution History on the Radicalism of Thomas Paine. Talk by Sybil Oldfield
(Univ. Sussex). Thomas Paine Society Eric Paine Memorial Lecture. Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1. Free.
Wednesday 14 March. 7pm. "Austerity Isn't
Working: What Is The Alternative?". Newcastle Arts Centre (The Black Swan),
67 Westgate Rd (opp Assembly Rooms). Hosted by Coalition of Resistance. Supported
by People's Bookshop, Gateshead Unison, Labour Representation Committee, Youth
Fight for Jobs, London Progressive Journal. Chair: Councillor Dipu Ahad. Main
speaker: Owen Jones, author of 'Chavs: the demonisation of the working
class' - http://goo.gl/1aHNH. Plus time for questions and
discussion. This is part of a national series of public meetings hosted by
Coalition of Resistance: www.coalitionofresistance.org.uk/2012/01/coalition-of-resistance-spring-tour
Thursday
March 15. Thinking Seriously about...Youth Work and Policy. Youth and Policy
Conference. Youth
and Policy’s fourth ‘thinking seriously’ conference will explore the
implications of Coalition youth policy for the youth work field. Over recent
months, many events have taken place with subsequent policy implications for
youth work organisation and practice: the implementation of Coalition spending
cuts, the Select Committee on Services for Young People, and the riots of
summer 2011. Highlights: Paul Oginsky Q&A session; a reflection on the Select Committee by Ian
Maerns (MP), a youth work panel session to be led by Bernard Davies, and
workshops on the NCS, teenage pregnancy, the PREVENT agenda, and the role of
faith-based and voluntary organisations in the Big Society. For further
information contact Naomi Stanton (YMCA) on 020 7540 4921. Venue: YMCA
George Williams College, George Williams College, 199 Freemasons Road, Canning
Town, London, E16. £90.
Saturday 17 March. 1.30-4.30pm. Labour Heritage Annual General
Meeting. After the formal business
Barbara Humphries will speak on ‘Thirty Years of Labour Heritage’, and Stan
Newens on ‘The Rise of Labour in London: why the delay?. Stefan Dickers will
then lead a guided tour of the
Bishopsgate Collections. Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London,
EC2. For further information and to join Labour Heritage contact Linda Shampan:
shampan@btinternet.com .
Saturday
17 March. 2pm. The Clarion Movement and performance by Bolton Clarion Choir. Denis Pye, author of Fellowship is life: the National Clarion Cycling
Club, 1895-1995, will speak about the Clarion movement and about some of
the exhibition highlights. The choir sings songs of celebration and protest to
support people and organisations concerned with democratic change, human
rights, peace and environmental issues. Working Class Movement Library,
Salford.
Saturday 17 March. 7pm. Joseph
Skipsey – a commemoration.
2012 provides several anniversaries of mining disasters so, to re-balance this
a little, the Institute is holding an event celebrating the 180th anniversary
of the birth of Joseph Skipsey, the Tyneside Pitman Poet. The event includes
Keith Armstrong, Gary Miller(Whisky Priests), Chris Harrison with Skipsey
songs, and pipe player Chris Ormston, with readings from Skipsey’s poetry and
an account of his life. During the evening, the annual Northern Voices Joseph
Skipsey Award will be presented to a deserving local writer. The North of England Institute of Mining and
Mechanical Engineers, Neville Hall, Westgate Rd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1. 0191
232 2201.
Friday 16 March. North East Popular Politics Project Social. Everyone welcome whether or not they are involved in the Project. See
below.
Monday 19 March. 2pm. “A voice
of discontent" on 18th.c. women writers. Talk by Jennifer Kelsey. Wandsworth U3A.
Earlsfield Library, 276 Magdalen Rd, London, SW18, Near Earlsfield Station.
Wednesday
21 March. 6pm for 6.30pm. The Gardens of William Morris. Talk
by Jill, Duchess of Hamilton.
On show - a special early copy of Morris’s novel News From Nowhere.
Garden Museum, Lambeth Palace Rd/Lambeth Rd, London, SW1. Tickets £15/£10
Museum Friends. Click
here to book a
place online.
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Friday 23 March, 8pm. Recital by students from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, including SC-T’s 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 Braithwaite Hall
(Croydon Town Hall), Katharine Street, CR9. Tickets: £8 from 020 8657 7909.
Part of Croydon Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Festival.
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Saturday 24 March. West London Local History
Conference. ‘Home Sweet Home: 300 years
of West London’s Housing’. This
year’s theme focuses on how the growth of London as a city changed the style
and pattern of house building in our area. Local interest will be strongly
represented by Colin Thom, who will be talking on Victorian and Edwardian
housing development in Battersea. Colin is a leading contributor to English
Heritage’s eagerly awaited Survey of Battersea. Montague Hall, Hounslow. £8. Further
details on http://brentfordandchiswicklhs.org.uk/about-2/west-london-local-history-conference-2012
Saturday 24 March.
10.15am-3.45pm. Women on The Home Front Conference. National Memorial Arboretum,
Alrewas, Staffordshire. Talks include:
·
The
housewife and the politics on food on the First World War home front· Challenging Gender Stereotypes on Britain’s Inland Waterways during the Second World War
· Shifting relationships between women, cats and dogs: challenges to the ‘people’s war’
· ‘Wartime Day Nurseries in the Midlands
· The lived experience of women on the Home Front in the Second World War
· Nationalising hundreds of thousands of women : Domesticity and Evacuation in Staffordshire
· War’s Forgotten Women : War Widows
Organised by The Midlands Region of the Women’s History Network, The National Memorial Arboretum and The University of Worcester. To book a place contact janis@staffs111.fsnet.co.uk or maggie.andrews@worc.ac.uk. Conference fee £15 and £7:50 for concessions - Students free, to include lunch and coffee.
Tuesday
27 March. Working together: How higher education and charities can deliver
social impact. How could your community/voluntary group harness the
power of thousands of students who want to make the world a better place? How
could you work with local universities and higher education institutions to
improve community engagement? NCVO, NUS & Universities UK
joint conference
to find out more.
Wednesday
28 March 2pm. Robert Blatchford's Journey to
Socialism. Deborah
Mutch, Senior Lecturer in English, De Montfort University, Leicester, will talk
with the founding of The Clarion and
then focusing on the literature that made The
Clarion famous. Working Class Movement Library, 51 The Crescent, Salford: www.wcml.org.uk
Saturday 31 March. Representations of London in Literature. Closing
date for submissions of papers. Literary
London 2012 Interdisciplinary
Conference – 18-20 July. (see below).
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Tuesday 3 April, 1pm. Lunch time concert by Megan Whiteley, Fred Scott, Cornelius
Bruinsma and friends at Fairfield
Halls, Park Lane, Croydon, CR9 1DG to include items by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor,
in aid of SCAT (Skeletal Cancer Action Trust). Presented by Soundpractice
Music Ltd. Tickets from 020 8688 9291 or www.fairfieldhalls.co.uk
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Thursday 5 April. The British Society
of Sports History Annual Conference. Final date for submisison of
papers. Conference 7-8 September
2012. Hosted by the University of Glasgow. The conference will be open-themed.
Papers should be a maximum of 20 minutes in length with ten minutes for
questions and discussion. Ideas for Specialist Panels will also be strongly
encouraged. Abstracts should be no longer than 200 words and should be sent to
The Conference Committee (email: bssh2012@gmail.com).
Sunday 15
April. 2pm. Can you keep a secret?: the rise and fall of the
Yorkshire Luddites. Play by Mikron Theatre. Riots in our city streets, the
worst economic crisis for decades, a long war fought abroad with no sign of
progress. Sound familiar? Welcome to England 1812. Whilst the country's elite
enjoy lavish balls and chattering salons, textile mill workers fight for their
livelihoods by smashing up the machinery designed to replace them. Luddism - a
fight for rights or fear of progress? Direct action or mindless vandalism? In
the back room of a Yorkshire pub, a young lad is ‘twisted in'. He takes the
oath of secrecy and joins the Luddites. But why won't he give his real name,
calling himself instead after the movement's mythical founder, Ned Ludd? What
is he hiding? And who was Ned Ludd anyway?
In the bicentennial year of the Luddite risings, which
took place around Marsden in West Yorkshire, who better to illuminate their
story than fellow Marsdeners Mikron - with their unique blend of humour,
history and harmonic arrangements. Tickets: £8 book. Working Class Movement
Library, 51 The Crescent, Salford.
Saturday
28 April. 10am-1noon. Gernika75: Memories of the International Brigades and the
Spanish Civil War.
People's History Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3. Speakers
will be Paul Preston, Helen Graham and Richard Baxell. Booking is required:
please contact the Museum on 0161 838 9190 or info@phm.org.uk. Further details: dom@lancaster.ac.uk. Ending at noon it leaves you
time to get across town to:
Saturday 28 April. 2pm Re-envisaging work: British
and American women's alternative economic visions in the late 19th and early
20th centuries'. 3rd Annual Frow lecture by Sheila Rowbotham.
For Working Class Movement Library. Venue Old Fire Station, Crescent, Salford. Sheila
Rowbotham draws on her most recent book, Dreamers
of a new day: women who Invented the twentieth century to show the range of
ideas and plans women devised for a better society. While some have entered our
daily lives many are yet to be realised and are still relevant today. All
welcome, admission free. www.wcml.org.uk
