Next event!
By Greg Rosen | February 3, 2010
Planning is underway for an event on the general election of 1959 - watch this space - or the Facebook group - for further details
Greg Rosen
Chair
Topics: Future Events, Frontpage News | No Comments »
Next Event!
By Greg Rosen | November 3, 2009
Which way’s Left?
Lessons from Labour’s history
Matt Carter - Former General Secretary of the Labour Party, on RH Tawney
Lord Donoughue - Previously Head of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit, on Herbert Morrison
Dianne Hayter - Former Chair of the Fabian Society and Labour Party, on Charlie Turnock
Lord Lipsey - Former Chair of the Fabian Society and Special Adviser to Anthony Crosland
James Purnell MP for Stalybridge and Hyde and Director of Demos’ Open Left Project (Chair)
The Open Left Project at Demos and the Labour History Group invite you to a debate on where the Left should look for inspiration today. As the Left grapples with economic and political challenges, can Labour’s history offer a guide to weathering the storm?
Four Labour veterans will debate what the experiences of RH Tawney, Herbert Morrison, Anthony Crosland and Charlie Turnock can contribute to the political and ideological renewal of the Left today. James Purnell MP, Director of the Open Left project at Demos, will chair the event.
Please join us for a discussion on whom you think the Left should learn from, to take place 18.00-19.30pm on Wednesday 25 November in Committee Room 15 of the Palace of Westminster, London SW1A OAA. Please allow 15 minutes to clear security upon arrival.
RSVP to seminars@demos.co.uk or call 0207 367 6333 to confirm your attendance and inform us of any access needs.
Topics: Future Events, Frontpage News, Uncategorized | No Comments »
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
Topics: Past Events, Frontpage News | No Comments »
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
Topics: Past Events, Frontpage News | No Comments »
“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.
Topics: Past Events, Frontpage News | No Comments »
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.
Topics: Frontpage News | No Comments »
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
Topics: Past Events, Frontpage News | No Comments »