2023 Radical History School Programme
Back in person, this year’s school is themed around: Protest
Hosted in the Village Hall, 47 Main Road, Tolpuddle DT2 7HF
The fee of £100 for the Radical History School includes an adult Weekend Festival pass (you will need to book tent, campervan and vehicles passes separately).
Thursday 13 July |
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| 10.00 | Arrivals (tea and coffee will be available) |
| 10.15 | Introductions, Registration, the Tolpuddle Martyrs with Les Kennedy |
| 10.45 | Protest and survive: lessons in migration activism with Bridget Anderson Director Migration Mobilities Bristol, University of Bristol |
| 11.45 | Fiction, the marriage question and protest in late nineteenth century England, reflections on Thomas Hardy with Fred Reid, Hon Prof, History University of Warwick |
| 12.45 | Lunch (Please bring your own packed lunch- tea, coffee & soft drinks provided) |
| 14.00 | Strikes and Suffragettes: militancy and collaboration between the Irish suffragettes and the labour movement 1910-1914 with Dr Erin Geraghty, University of the West of England |
| 15.00 | Black Trade Unionism in 1920/30’s Britain with Wilf Sullivan |
| 16.00 | Tea and Biscuits |
| 16.15 | Popular protest in the Russian Revolution with Prof Chris Read, Warwick University |
| 17.15 | Finish |
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Friday 14 July |
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| 9.00 | Village Walk with Tony Gould and a visit to the Old Methodist Chapel |
| 10.30 | The Ascott Martyrs: How a ‘bit of fun’ in support of striking agricultural worker, led to the imprisonment in the summer of 1873 of 16 women and two babies from a village in the heart of the Oxfordshire Cotswolds with Carol Anderson, Chair Ascott Martyrs Educational Trust |
| 11.30 | Marauders & Mediaeval Brigands? The Peace Convoy, Common Law and Common Rights with Dr John Callow, GMB and University of Suffolk |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 | The Domestic Workers Union of Great Britain and Ireland (1910-1914): a militant grassroots servants’ trade union with Dr Laura Schwartz, Reader in Modern British History, University of Warwick |
| 14.30 | Protest, public space and public order legislation in England since the 1790s with Katrina Navickas |
| 15.30 | Heritage Politics and Memories of Chartism, 1918 to the Present with Dr Matthew Roberts, Sheffield Hallam University |
| 16.30 | Resilience, resistance and confrontation: reform institutions for young working-class women in the nineteenth and early twentieth century with Dr Laura Harrison University of the West of England |
| 17.30 | Finish |
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Saturday 15 July |
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| 9.30 | American workers singing protest, from the Civil War to the First World War with Dr Steven Parfitt |
| 10.30 | Strikes, Food Riots and Living Standards in the Yorkshire Coalfield 1786-1801 with Joe Stanley |
| 11.30 | Bread or Blood: riot in 1816 with Dr Rose Wallis University of the West of England |
| 12.30 | Wind up and review session with Les Kennedy |
Purchase a ticket to the Radical History School here.