Bernard Winchester’s December Diary
Croydon Council Meetings
Tuesday 28 November. 10am. Appointments & Disciplinary Committee
Bernard Wetherill House. Appointment to the post of Director of Housing Assets. Paper not yet on website.
Tuesday 28 November. 6.30 pm. General Purposes Committee
Proposed Change to the Constitution – Appointments and Disciplinary Committee; draft Council Calendar May 2024 to May 2025. It is proposed that there be only 6 Councill meetings, despite the proposed 11 Cabinet and 8 Scrutiny & Overview Committee meetings.
Can Perry deliver on £18.5m Levelling Up Grant for Town Centre?
For full details of the proposed scheme and the conditions applying to the grant see https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/what-will-croydon-do-with-the-18-5m-of-funding-from-government. See also Inside Croydon. 21 November)
The Work Foundation at Lancaster University has found that 17.5% of workers in Croydon are in severely insecure jobs.
Inside Croydon Postings 22-25 November
IC backs Cassandra Centre Xmas Event.
Birch Hotel in Selsdon in administration.
Andrew Fisher on the Autumn Budget statement. He says that in Croydon next year, schools will lose £10.3million of funding.
Playgrounds upgrade fiasco.
Fraud suspected in Labour’s Croydon East Parliamentary and GLA selection processes. (See also Evening Standard. 24 November)
Interview with ‘concrete brutalism’ John Grindrod.
Sunak Shafts Philp and Perry over house conversions.
Other Croydon News
Philp Backs Hunt’s Benefits Clampdown
London boroughs ‘teetering on the edge’ after Autumn Statement
Croydon Health Watch November Newsletter
https://mailchi.mp/c2b12678aebe/healthwatch-croydon-august-newsletter-8784239
Croydon Trading Standards Bulletin
Croydon Healthy Homes Energy Advice Workshops
https://www.croydon.gov.uk/environment/sustainable-development/energy/energy-advice-events
Other Events
Battersea
https://mailchi.mp/7b2f0cf4d01b/battersea-insider-things-to-do-things-to-see-15891732
Thursday 7 December. 6.30pm. Resisters: how ordinary Jews fought persecution in Hitler’s Germany
Talk by Professor Wolf Gruner, University of Southern California for The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway.
Clore Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, WC1E 7JL.
To book place:
Thursday 14 December. 6pm. The Black Trade Union Oral History
On-line dialogue.
https://www.history.ac.uk/events/black-trade-union-oral-history-project-dialogue-ohs-ihr
History
Scotland Jamaica and Slavery
The recorded talk for Black Conversations by Kate Phillips can be seen at
Medieval Immigration
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-31462885
Black Londoners And The Black Death
Val Wilmer’s Photographic Work
Legacies Of British Slave-ownership Newsletter
The Centre has now got a website separate from the Legacies database. Its latest Traces newsletter is full of fascinating material.
Remainder Books From www.psbooks.co.uk
David Olusoga. Cult of Progress. £5.99. No. 518482
Robert Peal. Meet the Georgians. £6.99. No. 527837. Biog. profiles including John Wilkes and Olaudah Equiano.
History & Social Action News and Events 