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.
The aim of this one day conference at the University of Portsmouth is to historicize the women’s liberation movement within western society between c1968-1990
The Socialist History Society is hosting this seminar to assess Tony Benn's contribution to British politics; speakers will look at the historical roots of his commitment to socialism; his record in and out of office; some of the key causes…
Birkbeck Institute for Social Research: Race Forum and Department of Psychosocial Studies presents Jasbir Puar on 'Debility/Capacity: Debt, Disability and Disaster Capitalism'
Convened by the Raphael Samuel History Centre and some of the museums, archives and galleries which make up its History and Heritage Adult Learning Network, with walks, workshops, lectures and talks, this special events series explores some…
Britain at Work is organising an Oral Labour History Day at the Bishopsgate Institute in London, on Saturday 17 May, with an afternoon theme focusing on occupations and social protest in the UK
This lecture endeavours to redeem interwar progressives from what is not so much the condescension of posterity as the ridicule of their contemporaries and to suggest the wider relevance of their utopian dreams
The Working Class Movement Library will celebrate International Women’s Day on Saturday 8 March from 2pm with talks on women activists from the late 19th century to the present day
'Three Acres And A Cow' connects The Norman Conquest and Peasants' Revolt with the 80s road protests and Occupy via the enclosures and Highland Clearances, bringing a compelling narrative to the radical people's history of Britain through…
Junior historians with an interest in politically and socially engaged history are invited to join a new London-based network for friendly discussion, organised under the auspices of the Raphael Samuel History Centre
The Raphael Samuel History Centre (RSHC) and Birkbeck Institute of Gender and Sexuality (BiGS) celebrates LGBT History Month with more events added to the programme. All welcome!
The Mary Quaile Club was set up in December 2013. The aim of the Club is to hold regular discussions on working class history and its links with contemporary political issues facing working people in Tory Britain
An event on Tuesday 28 January 2014 at 6.30pm, to celebrate a new edition of Outcast London, Gareth Stedman Jones’s acclaimed study of class relationships in Victorian London