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Ronnie Hanna has asked us to mention these three online history courses which may be of interest to some of our members and supporters. The courses were originally part of Queen's University Belfast's Open Learning Programme for the spring, which was cancelled due to the current situation. If you are interested, please contact Ronnie at: […]
This meeting has beeen cancelled as part of the measures to limit the Covid 19 outbreak. Where possible, meetings will be rescheduled once this becomes possible. Notices will appear on this website as soon as this happens.
Please let us know if you would like to attend this meeting by clicking this link and giving us your email address and name. We will then contact you before the meeting with the Zoom link. In an effort to defeat the striking miners the government, judiciary and police used the law as a method […]
Please let us know if you would like to attend this meeting by clicking this link and giving us your email address and name. We will then contact you before the meeting with the Zoom link. Please note that any member wishing to submit a change to the Constitution (see pages 187 – 188 of […]
Please note that the planned Memorial Service on the 17 October has been cancelled.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84301417060?pwd=d2h5T1lpbHZuVWpwM25yM0V6eThLdz09 Meeting ID: 843 0141 7060 Passcode: 687904 The International Brigade of the 1930s was not the first venture of its kind. Garibaldi’s 1860 campaign to liberate and unify Italy also attracted international volunteers, not least from Britain. Several hundred, including about 18 from Tyneside, joined a ‘British Legion’ that supported Garibaldi in Sicily […]
Peter Brabban will do his traditional, fiendish quiz. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81241889086?pwd=RDIzREZBZGN6cE5GbjJtMTNKYjBzdz09 Meeting ID: 812 4188 9086 Passcode: 609726
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85812281578?pwd=WG90Y1Y5UFJYM1Vva003amYvcHBaQT09 Meeting ID: 858 1228 1578 Passcode: 383471 The ‘Labour Unrest’ – or what more precisely should be termed ‘Labour Revolt’ - that swept Britain in the years leading up to the First World War between 1910 and 1914 was one of the most sustained, dramatic and violent explosions of industrial militancy […]
Online book launch of this major new biography with author Rachel Holmes in conversation with historian Mary Davis Register here https://www.marx-memorial-library.org.uk/event/289 Born into one of Britain’s most famous activist families, Sylvia Pankhurst was a natural rebel; a talented artist, prolific writer and a newspaper editor. A free spirit and radical visionary, history placed her in […]