2024 Radical History School Programme
This year’s school is themed around: Under Attack
Hosted in the Village Hall, 47 Main Road, Tolpuddle DT2 7HF
The fee of £115 for the Radical History School includes an adult Weekend Festival pass (you will need to book tent, campervan and vehicles passes separately).
Thursday 18 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 | Mark Reeves ‘Hands Off Lagos! Global Labour Protest in Nigeria at War’s End, 1945’. |
| 11.45 | Steve Cushion University College London ‘On Strike against the Nazis: Resistance and Class Struggle in Northern France during the Second World War’ |
| 12.45 | Lunch (Please bring your own packed lunch- tea, coffee & soft drinks provided) |
| 14.00 | Dr Erin Geraghty, University of Nottingham ‘Working People Fight Back: The development of the Irish Citizen Army and the People’s Army in 1913′ |
| 15.30 | Dr Clare Griffiths ‘Resistance, defiance, solidarity: trade union responses to attacks on democracy in the 1930s’ |
| 16.30 | Tea and Biscuits |
| 16.45 | Pete Yeandle ‘Shutting down Dissent: anti-war campaigners and the jingo mob during the second Boer War’ |
| 18.00 | Finish |
Friday 19 July |
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| 09.00 | Village Walk with Tony Gould and a visit to the Old Methodist Chapel |
| 10.30 | Dr Kathy Davies Sheffield Hallam University ‘Violence, Censorship, and Suppression: British Attacks on the Free Press in the Irish War for Independence’ |
| 11.30 | Discussion Group |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 | Dr Dave Steele ‘A pack of brawling bullies who should be whipped and gibbetted’ – Chartists under attack |
| 14.30 | Chris Read ‘The people versus the state – the Russian Revolution 1917’ |
| 15.30 | Katrina Navickas ‘The policing of crowd protest in public space in England 1714-1994’ |
| 16.30 | Dr Matthew Roberts Sheffield Hallam University ‘Workers’ bodies under attack: Chartism and disability |
| 17.30 | Finish |
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Saturday 20 July |
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| 10.00 | Dr Steven Parfitt ‘Rhodes Must Fall: The enemies of Cecil Rhodes in the 19th and 21st centuries’ |
| 11.00 | Joe Stanley ‘The West Riding Miners’ Strike of 1819’ |
| 12.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00 | Bridget Anderson Bristol University, ‘Migrants and canaries: why attacks on migrants matter to citizens’ |
| 14.30 | Dr. Rose Wallis University of the West of England |
| 15.30 | Wind up and review session with Les Kennedy |
Purchase a ticket to the Radical History School here.