Begin the World Over Again
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again" - radical thoughts and actions for radical times, July-December 2020. You can now listen and subscribe to the...
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. ...
This talk by Lauren Murphy was live-streamed, and recorded for future viewing - you can see it at https://youtu.be/VZw1Pe0Jpc4. Lauren tells the story of East Manchester's Bradford Pit, and what happened after it closed. She explains her family links to the pit, which led her to undertake research as part......
Katrina Goldstone's talk will focus on the life and writing of Stella Jackson, daughter of T.A.Jackson, and in particular focus on Stella's observations on the Irish radical cultural groups she associated with in the 1930s and 1940s in her unpublished manuscript Flotsam and Jetsam: Memoir of a Revolutionary's Daughter. Stella......
We feel very honoured to be hosting the online launch of Ben Harker’s new book The chronology of revolution, based on a decade of research in over 20 archives including our own, and which focuses on the legacy of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Ben argues that the......
Hazel Kent will speak to us about conscientious objector Fenner Brockway. The Quaker concept of witness can be defined as action inspired by faith. Fenner Brockway, although not a Quaker, witnessed for peace in a variety of ways during WW1: through his journalism, his political activity, work for......
APOLOGIES, THIS EVENT HAS HAD TO BE POSTPONED. This lecture, in honour of the Library's founders Edmund and Ruth Frow, will cover the ups and downs of social mobility in Britain over the past century. Using hundreds of personal testimonies, Selina Todd will shatter the myth that Britain was......
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