'Outing Octavia: Transforming Queer Heritage in Britain': Goldsmiths Queer History Inaugural Lecture by Professor Alison Oram, 6pm, 2 November 2017, Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths.
Peter Burke, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, will deliver the Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2017, speaking on 'Two Diasporas: the place of exiles in the history of knowledge'.
Launch event for the new Family History Workshop, a new initiative by the Raphael Samuel History Centre: Victoria Haskins, 'Stories my great-grandmother didn’t tell me, Or, family histories and the memories of nations'.
The Peace History Conference and the Working Class Movement Library present a day exploring the effects of the Russian Revolutions on the British labour and peace movements.
Conference to be held at the Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 13-15 October 2017, to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution.
On the 100th anniversary of this historic Labour and Socialist Convention, the Ford-Maguire Society and Leeds TUC are holding a one-day event at the Swarthmore Centre in Leeds on Saturday 3 June 2017 from 10-4pm.
HWO is seeking to appoint one or two Editorial Fellows to assist in the running of our website, social media channels, and podcast. Applications due 5pm 30 June 2017.
The Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2016 commemorates the twentieth anniversary of Raphael’s death with a lecture by his widow, the writer Alison Light.
The Lukas Plan, produced by workers at the Lucas Aerospace arms company, showed how jobs could be saved by converting to make products that answer a social need, rather than weapons.
Proposals are invited for twenty-minute papers and panels of three papers. Abstracts (250 words) should be emailed to warsofposition2017@manchester.ac.uk by 1/12/16.
All proposals for oral history-based contributions, including papers, panels, presentations, workshops, posters and displays should be submitted by 16th December 2016 to OHSConf2017@ohs.org.uk
How did this prodigious journalist, Guggenheim fellow, and “the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance” just disappear, along with his literary masterpiece?
East Anglia has a rich but often overlooked history of radicalism and this conference will introduce people to some aspects of this history and provide a focus for a renewed interest in Labour History.
Registration is now open for the ‘British Communism and Commitment’ day-school to be held between 9.45 and 4.45 on 9th June 2016 in the Labour History Archive and Study Centre at the People’s History Museum, Manchester.
Ruth Mather writes on the benefits of interrogating history curriculum bias in a school setting, and discusses the benefits to both students and educators of doing so.