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
University of London, Senate House, Room G11-12, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU
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.
The 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).
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.
*This session will be recorded as a future episode of the History Workshop Podcast.
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.
For information contact Steffan Blayney sblayn01@mail.bbk.ac.uk or Guy Beckett gbecke01@mail.bbk.ac.uk
www.historyacts.org
Twitter: @HistoryActs