Tuesday 17 January. 7pm. Five Russians in the North East of England
From the 1880s until the Bolshevik revolution, Tyneside hosted a number of Russians who lived strange and sometimes dangerous lives. The first was an anarchist and aristocrat wanted by the Russian police since his escape from a fortress prison in St Petersburg, There was a writer who, unknowingly, was a major influence on British post war literature; a Bolshevik whom Lenin described as the “favourite of the whole party”, and several who used false names abroad to hide their secrets.
Zoom talk by Andy McSmith for North East Labour History Society.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82279384542?pwd=K0o2RjAzRTBldW45RWZaNENaeTlGUT09
Meeting ID: 822 7938 4542
Passcode: 470843
Thursday 19 January. 7pm. Zionism During the Holocaust
Zoom talk by Tony Greensten for Socialist History Society
Free to join, but you will need to register in advance: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrdOuopjMqEtV31MqXNpEbt_62dH5rGVQS
Also live streamed on YouTube https://youtu.be/4ZSdiq6Wd4Q
Monday 23 January. 5.30pm. Reparations for Enslavement as a trade union issue
Zoom talk by Steve Cushion (University College London – Institute of the Americas) for London Socialist Historians seminar at IHR.
On-line with Zoom on
Free to attend, but you must book in advance on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/search-events
Use this link for other IHR seminars listed below.
Monday 23 January. 6pm. Gunpowder, Gravity, and Joseph Banks’s Worst Enemy: Charles Hutton
A lecture by Dr. Benjamin Wardhaugh
www.litandphil.org.uk/events/charles-hutton-gunpowder-gravity-and-joseph-banks-s-worst-enemy
To Sunday 29 January. Transforming Legacies Exhibition
Monday 30 January. “There is scarcely a greater plague that can infest society than swarms of beggars”: the rise and fall of the mendicity society movement in Ireland, 1815–45
Zoom IHR seminar talk by Dr Ciarán McCabe for Voluntary Action History Society.
Wednesday 1 February. 5.30pm. Anticolonialism, democracy and political ideas in 1960s East Africa
IHR seminar talk by Emma Hunter
Friday 3 February. 5.30pm. ‘No Votes for Women, No Nurses for the Territorials!’: Suffrage Militancy, Amateur Soldiering & the Institutional Origins of the First World War Women’s Corps
IHR Seminar talk by Krisztina Robert (Roehampton)
Saturday 4 February. 9.30am-4.30pm. Christopher Hill and the English Revolution: 50 years after TWTUD
IHR Conference
Saturday 11 February. 11am. The Hidden History of Robert Lowery
Old Low Light Heritage Centre, North Shields NE30 1JE
Robert Lowery from North Shields man was one of the leaders of the Chartist movement.
For more details and to book go to:
People can find out more about the talk and how to book a place on the Old Low Light Heritage Centre web site at:
Monday 27 February.6pm. Voluntarism in an Age of Empire: Rethinking development in colonial India
IHR seminar talk by Sandip Kana for Voluntary Action History Society
Monday 27 March. 6pm. Saving the other at home and overseas: philanthropy and disability in nineteenth-century Britain and its Empire
IHR seminar talk by Dr Esme Cleall for Voluntary Action History Society
Sgt. Sidney Cornell
From Portsmouth, Hampshire, his father was African American, Cornell volunteered for airborne forces while serving with The Royal Army Service Corps. He won the DCM and is buried in a war cemetery in Germany.
www.paradata.org.uk/people/sidney-cornell
Black History in Southampton
Ourika – 1823 novel about a black woman – based on a true story
www.waterstones.com/book/ourika/john-fowles/9780873527804
You can read part of the introduction on www.amazon.co.uk/Ourika-English-Translation-Texts-Translations-ebook/dp/B013R5MC14
William Morris House Centenary Booklet 1922 -2022
Written by former Chair of the House in Wimbledon Peter Walker. Peter was previously active in the Labour Party in Croydon and then Battersea.
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