This international event commemorates twenty years since the death of the leftwing social historian Raphael Samuel and forty years since the founding of History Workshop Journal. The event will explore radical approaches to the past and histories of radical ideas and action through lectures, panels, performances, screenings, workshops and exhibitions. The event is organised by the Raphael Samuel History Centre. It is intended to engage a diverse audience, and to bring together practitioners of many varieties of historical research, curatorship, writing and performance, from both inside and outside the academy. 1-3 July 2016 Queen Mary University of London

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At the November 2015 SSLH Adult Worker Education conference, University of Huddersfield, Duncan Money [Balliol College] was presented with the 2014 LHR Essay Prize by SSLH President, Professor Keith Laybourn. Duncan’s award winning essay “There are worse places than Dalmuir!” Glaswegian riveters on the Clyde and the Copperbelt’ will be published in the Labour History Review. A £250 student prize is offered annually, an application form and further details can be downloaded here. The Society would particularly welcome applications by female postgraduates.

A Gaol Bird’s Lay is just one of many pamphlets held at the Working Class Movement Library, Salford, which shed light on the plight of conscientious objector in the First World War. In January 1916 Conscription was introduced into Britain for the first time to ensure that there were sufficient troops to fight on the Western Front and elsewhere. Salford played a significant role in this ‘conscientious objection’ to the war. The Library has embarked on an HLF-funded Invisible Histories Project drawing upon the rich material held in its collections

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