Object of the Moment
A feature where someone from the Library chooses an interesting object, book or document from the Library collection, which is displayed in the hall of the Library. November 2020 The...
We marked LGBT+ History Month with an online talk by Ray Woolford, 'The importance of working class LGBTQ woman in history, and why we need to reclaim this LGBT History Month our icons and our heroes'. The talk was live-streamed, and a recording has now been uploaded to our YouTube......
We were due to host a travelling exhibition that would chart the 100-year contribution of the Communist Party to the struggle for socialism in Britain and abroad. We're delighted now to offer it in an online version - click here. ...
We were pleased to get another chance to hear a talk by Matthew Kidd, postponed from last autumn. Matthew's new book, The renewal of radicalism, uses five local case studies - Bristol, Leicester, Lincoln, Norwich and Northampton - to examine the ideological relationship between 19th century radicalism and the......
Chartism, the working class movement for democratic and social rights which swept across Britain from the 1830s to the 1850s, has enjoyed a remarkably enduring posthumous life. Matthew Roberts's talk will explore the ways Chartism has lived on, and ask who has kept the memories of the movement alive,......
‘It is our duty clamourously and unceasingly to agitate’ (Phillis Annie Skinner, editor, Manchester Conscientious Objectors Journal, August 1918). Ali Ronan will use MI5 papers and other ephemera to piece together the life and times of socialist, anti-fascist and antiwar agitators J. Allen Skinner (1890-1974) and Phillis Skinner (1874-1950), from conscientious objection and imprisonment......
Who were the Scottish suffragettes and how did the fight for the vote differ in Scotland? Join Professor Sarah Pedersen as she discusses the campaign for women’s suffrage north of the border. Sarah is Professor of Communication and Media at Robert Gordon University Aberdeen (RGU). She also acts as......
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