Forthcoming events
By Greg Rosen | May 6, 2009
Several are being planned for summer and autumn 2009…
Keep an eye on this website, or join the Facebook group for more details…
Greg Rosen
LHG Chair
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Winter of Discontent - thirty years on - Lessons from history?
By Greg Rosen | February 18, 2009
At 7pm on 4th March the Labour History Group is hosting an evening panel discussion on the Winter of Discontent.
Speakers will include
Labour History Group are hosting a panel discussion on the Winter of Discontent.
Speakers include:
Lord Sawyer (latterley deputy General Secretary of UNISON but then a local trade union official)
David Hill (latterly press secretary to Labour leaders Tony Blair and John Smith but then the Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection - Roy Hattersley - in Jim Callaghan’s 1976-79 Labour Cabinet)
Geoffrey Goodman - (Assistant editor of the Daily Mirror 1976-86)
Venue: Room 3a, Committee corridor (Lords end) in Parliament. Enter via main entrance to parliament.
Tube: Westminster
Contact: gregrosen2004@yahoo.co.uk
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Fabian Society and Webb Memorial Trust conference
By Greg Rosen | February 18, 2009
On Saturday 21 February Lord Hattersley will open a conference on Fighting Poverty and Inequality in an Age of Affluence organised by the fabian Society and Webb Memorial Trust in Association with the Labour History Group to commemorate the centenary of the Poor Law Minority Report. Beatrice Webb’s 1909 Minority Report first set out the vision, arguments and values of social justice that were to become the foundations of the modern welfare state.
The event at LSE aims to make a major contemporary contribution to the strategy for fighting poverty and inequality in today’s Britain. Confirmed speakers include Karen Buck MP; Nick Bosanquet; Dr. Dianne Hayter; Greg Rosen; Pat Thane; Peter Townsend and many more.
Date: Saturday, 21 February 2009
Venue: London School of Economics, Hong Kong Lecture Hall
This is a ticketted event. For more information please see:
http://fabians.org.uk/content/view/717/111/
Sessions include a keynote speech by Lord Hattersley on the life and legacy of Beatrice Webb; the legacy - from Beveridge to Brown and How Have Coalitions For Change Been Built.
On the same day the Fabians will be publishing a centenary pamphlet, written by a collection of authors including workhouse historian Sarah Wise, Lord Hattersley, Jon Trickett MP and Professor Peter Townsend. The book, called From Workhouse to Welfare: What Beatrice Webb’s 1909 Minority Report Teaches Us Today, will be launched at the LSE conference.
During the centenary week, the Fabians will also take part in online debates and publish online essays.
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George Lansbury remembered - 7pm on 25th February 2009
By Greg Rosen | February 2, 2009
2009 sees the 150th anniversary of the birth of George Lansbury, Labour leader 1931-35, and in commemoration of this event, the Labour History Group has teamed up with the Labour History Research Unit at Anglia Ruskin University, and Lansbury’s biographer Professor John Shepherd, to organise a seminar on the Life of George Lansbury, in Cttee Room 4A at the House of Commons at 7pm on 25th February. Speakers include Roy Hattersley, Professor the Lord Morgan, and Michael White of the Guardian.
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Next event: Know Your Place! The history of women in the Labour Party
By Greg Rosen | October 17, 2008
The next Labour History Group event, at 7pm on 19th November 2008, is a panel discussion on the the “Women who made Labour”.
Speakers include Olympics minister Rt Hon Tessa Jowell MP, historian, former Labour Party chair, and former Fabian Society General Secretary Dianne Hayter, and historian and former minister Baroness Patricia Hollis.
Venue: Committee Room 9, House of Commons committee corridor (St Stephens entrance), London. Nearest tube: Westminster. 
For more details please e-mail the LHG team at gregrosen2004@yahoo.co.uk or emmacarr@gmail.com
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“The longest suicide note in history?” The 1983 election campaign remembered.
By Greg Rosen | September 15, 2008
They included:
Peter Kellner, now chairman of pollsters YouGov, who was then the political editor of the New Statesman;
Gerald Kaufman MP, who in 1983 was in Labour’s shadow cabinet. It was Kaufman who had dubbed the manifesto “the longest suicide note in history”;
Andy McSmith, latterly chief political correspondent of the Independent, who was a Labour Party organiser in Newcastle during the 1983 election and worked at Labour HQ in London from 1984.
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Forthcoming Labour History events
By admin | September 3, 2008
The Labour History Group is gearing up for autumn 2008 with several events planned before Christmas.
They include a panel discussion on the “Women who made Labour”, with speakers provisionally to include this year’s Labour Party chair Dianne Hayter. LHG is also planning an event on the Winter of Discontent - thirty years on.
For more details please e-mail the LHG team at gregrosen2004@yahoo.co.uk
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LHG launches the Oral History Project
By admin | June 20, 2007
The Labour History Group has launched a new project to compile online political memories about figures and events in the Labour movement.
To start off this project, we have video memories from the six Labour deputy leadership candidates, Hilary Benn, Hazel Blears, John Cruddas, Peter Hain, Harriet Harman and Alan Johnson.
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An evening with Denis Healey
By admin | June 13, 2007
AN EVENING WITH DENIS HEALEY: REMINISCENSES FROM A LIFE IN POLITICS
A meeting of the Labour History Group was held at 7.00pm on Wednesday 13th June 2007, in Committee Room 3a in the House of Lords.
After war service (famously as beachmaster at Anzio ) Healey was an unsuccessful Labour candidate in 1945. Appointed International Secretary of the Labour Party after an impressive speech at the 1945 Party conference, he became close to Ernest Bevin. Elected a Leeds MP in 1952, he became a prominent Gaitskellite. He served as Defence Secretary 1964-70 and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1974-79. Defeated by Michael Foot for the leadership in 1980 he was Labour’s deputy leader 1980-83 and Shadow Foreign Secretary 1980-87.
After an amusing and at times poignant lecture, Lord Healey took questions
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