History Acts 08 Labour & Momentum

H-Announce History Acts 08 - Labour & Momentum - The Left in Government?

Announcement published by Steffan Blayney on Tuesday, November 28, 2017 Type: Workshop Date: January 16, 2018 Location: United Kingdom Subject Fields: British History / Studies, Contemporary History, Labor History / Studies, Political History / Studies, Public History

HISTORY ACTS 08 LABOUR & MOMENTUM THE LEFT IN GOVERNMENT?

An opportunity for historians with an interest in left wing governments to engage with Momentum and Labour activists. Tuesday 16 January 2018 18:00 to 20:00 London University Senate House, Room G11-12, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU

For information contact Steffan Blayney [email protected] or Guy Beckett [email protected]

History Acts workshops are led by activists, who give a short talk or presentation about their work. Historians working on a relevant topic will then respond, before opening it up to group discussion.

Our Panel

Beth Foster-Ogg is a Labour activist and Momentum Training Organiser. She has had articles published by Labour List and the Independent, and in 2016 she ran for the position of Chair of London Young Labour.

Michael Walker is a contributor to Novara Media and a Labour activist. In 2016, he worked on the Jeremy for Labour leadership campaign in the volunteer mobilisation team and was a panellist at our first History Acts workshop.

John Callaghan is Professor of Politics & Contemporary History at the University of Salford. His research interests include: the politics and history of socialism, international history since 1789 and political ideologies. Amongst other works he is the author of The Far Left in British Politics (1987) Socialism in Britain Since 1884 (1990), and The Labour Party and Foreign Policy: A History (2007).

Citation: Steffan Blayney. History Acts 08 - Labour & Momentum - The Left in Government?. H-Announce. 11-28-2017. https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/961316/history-acts-08-labour-momentum-left-government Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-Announce

Charlotte Riley is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century British History at the University of Southampton. She specialises in the history of twentieth-century Britain, especially the Labour Party, aid and development, and decolonization. She is also interested more broadly in the culture of British politics and society, especially issues around gender politics and the British state. She is currently working on a monograph exploring the Labour Party’s aid and development policies from the 1920s to the 1970s.

History Acts is a radical history forum, affiliated to the Raphael Samuel Centre, and based at the University of London. Our goal is to bring together radical and left-wing historians and contemporary activists. We look for new ways to engage as academics with contemporary struggles, to learn from activists, and to see how we can use what expertise and institutional resources we have to provide active solidarity.

History Acts sessions take place on the third Tuesday of every term-time month. Sessions are free and open to any historian, any history student, or anyone interested in how history can work for social and political change. www.historyacts.org Twitter: @HistoryActs Contact Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.historyacts.org/?p=106