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Tag Archives: Music
History events and news at 22 April
Published by Verso this month this important book is by John Boughton who runs the Municipal Dreams blog: https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com Friday 27 April – Thursday 27 September. The power of unity: 150 years of the TUC Exhibition at Working Class Movement … Continue reading
Croydon events & news at 6 November
Amendment re-Fairfield Halls added 7 November – see below. Tuesday 7 November. 12noon-1.30pm. Health Watch AGM and Community Fair http://mailchi.mp/db43a2b4cb10/book-your-place-at-our-annual-meeting-7-november-12pm-central-croydon-1837773 Thursday 16 November 6pm. RSA Croydon Network Meeting Includes documentary screening: ‘My Town & Me’ followed by Q&A with Hale … Continue reading
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Tagged 171-183 London Rd, arts, bettinmg machines, Boxpark, CR7 Market, Culture, Fairfield Halls, health, Kake, Music, Norbury, planning applications, Samuel Coleridge-Tyalor Network, Scrutiny, Seni's Law, Steve Reed, University admissions, University Hospital, Whitgift Head
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Labour movement etc history events & news at 21 October
Wednesday 25 October. 4pm. Co-operation: old ideas for new times? Talks by Peter Gurney (Professor of History, University of Essex), and Cilla Ross (Vice-Principal of the Co-operative College) University of Manchester https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/co-operation-old-ideas-for-new-times-tickets-38541966058 Saturday 28 October. 10.30am-4pm. Sixteenth Essex Conference on … Continue reading
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Tagged Bridge of Spies, Britain at Work, China, Co-operative Party, English landed society, factory occupations, FML Thompson, Francis Beckett, John Ltouche, Korea, Labour Party jhistory, Music, National Federation of Women Workers, Rudolf Abel, Russian Revolution, Ruth & Eddie Frow, Stan Newens, Voting for Change, Wikipedia, William Hone, Working Class Movement Library
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Black History events & news at 21 October
Stephen Bourne given Honorary Fellowship Stephen has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship from London South Bank University for his contribution to diversity. In the citation that was read out his black history work, gay history work & police/community relations work were … Continue reading
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Tagged abolition, Autograph, Benjamin Lay, Blackamores, Bolshevik Revolution, Catherine Hlal, Claudia Jones, curriculum, David Olusoga, Glasgow.slavery, legacies of Empire, Marcus Raediker, Music, Nick Draper, Oneyka, Puerto Rico, Stephen Bourne, US Civil war black soldiers, WBBHVII, Young Otello
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Black History Month – additional news and events
See previous listings in https://seancreighton1947.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/black-history-month-events-and-other-news Black History Month Magazine Patrick Vernon has done a first class job compiling and editing the new Black History Month magazine. On the 30th Anniversary of the start of BHM it contains reflections by a … Continue reading
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Tagged African religions, Black composers, Black sailors, Black Tudors, Constance Cummings-John, Croydon, Harrow, Jo Stanley, Kathy Chater, Legacies of British Slavery, Liverpool, Miranda Kaufman, Music, Nick Draper, Partition, Patrick Vernon, slave registers, song, US fugitive slaves in Britain, Wandsworth
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Black History Month events and other news
Saturday 30 September. 10.30am-1pm. A History of British Black Music Presentation by Kwaku of British Black Music. Ideas Test Shop, 4 High Street, Sittingbourne, ME10 4PB Friday 6 & Saturday 7 October. Black History in Hull and East Yorkshire … Continue reading
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Tagged 2007 digital resource, Connecticut, curriculum, George Moses Horton, Manchester, Music, Narrtaive Eye, Renaissance, Tudor England
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Croydon events & news at 21 May
Croydon Local Plan Hearings Monday 22 May: housing intensification Tuesday 23 May: Green Grid Wednesday 24 May: affordable homes; dwelling mix; housing quality Thursday 25 May: gypsies; employment Tuesday 30 May: tall buildings; local heritage; community facilities; sustainable design; transport … Continue reading
Radical History events from 12 May
To Saturday 27 May. Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10am-6pm Partisan Coffee House Exhibition The fascinating story of this New Left coffee house, founded by Raphael Samuel alongside Stuart Hall and others. The exhibition includes previously unseen photographs by renowned documentary photographer Roger Mayne, alongside … Continue reading
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Tagged coal industry, coastal cities, engineering, environment, media, Music, Partisan Coffee house, poets, Raphael Samuel, strikes, WCML, WW1 rebels
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History & Social Action News and Events 