Next event: 19th July 2010
An evening with Joel Barnett A rare opportunity to hear from Joel Barnett – author of the famous formula and Chief Secretary to the Treasury 1974-79 Panel discussion led by Lord Barnett on the lessons from the last time Labour had to consider austerity budgets 7-8:15pm 19th July 2010 Committee Room 2A in Parliament (main [...]
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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
Next Event!
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 [...]
Winter of Discontent – thirty years on – Lessons from history?
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 [...]
Fabian Society and Webb Memorial Trust conference
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 [...]
George Lansbury remembered – 7pm on 25th February 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 [...]
Next event: Know Your Place! The history of women in the Labour Party
The next Labour History Group event, at 7pm on 19th November 2008, is a panel discussion on the the “Women who made Labourâ€. 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 [...]
Forthcoming Labour History events
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 [...]
Electoral Reform Society event
Labour History Group members are invited to a special event being organised to coincide with the forthcoming Labour leadership announcement conference in Manchester on June 24th The People’s History Museum – in association with the Electoral Reform Society – will be offering delegates the opportunity to attend a special opening of its “Battle of the [...]