{"id":216,"date":"2018-02-12T19:35:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T19:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/?p=216"},"modified":"2018-02-18T21:40:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T21:40:31","slug":"stop-the-first-world-war-a-series-of-talks-at-conway-hall-autumn-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Stop the First World War, a series of talks at Conway Hall, Autumn 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

30th September 2014 at 7pm
\n<\/strong>Norman Angell \u2013 liberal, radical, socialist, pacifist or patriot?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nSpeaker: Martin Ceadel,<\/strong>\u00a0 Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College.<\/p>\n

7th October at 7pm
\nFrom Ivory Tower to Activist: Persistent Dissent: Bertrand Russell\u2019s response to the War and Conscription<\/strong>
\nSpeaker:\u00a0Chris Bratcher,<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0former Chair of Conway Hall Ethical Society
\nand
\nRamsay MacDonald and World War One<\/strong>
\nSpeaker: John Grigg<\/strong>, Treasurer of Labour Heritage,\u00a0 researcher into local Labour History in West London and one time Labour Leader of Hounslow Council.<\/p>\n

14th October at 7pm
\nThe British Labour Movement and the Outbreak of the First World War<\/strong>
\nSpeaker: Prof Willie Thompson<\/strong>, former editor of Socialist History
\nAnd
\nA Movement Divided, The Labour Movement and the Great War<\/strong>
\nA Case Study The West Riding of Yorkshire
\nSpeaker: Prof Keith Laybourn,<\/strong> leading labour historian and author.<\/p>\n

21st October at 7pm
\nIrish labour and the First World War<\/strong>
\nSpeaker: John Newsinger<\/strong>, Professor of History at Bath Spa University and author of Rebel City: Larkin, Connolly and the Dublin Labour Movement
\nAnd
\nRadical Liberalism and the Outbreak of WW1.<\/strong>
\nSpeaker Duncan Bowie,<\/strong> editor of The Chartist<\/p>\n

28th October at 7pm
\nThe Pankhursts at War<\/strong>
\nSpeaker: Katherine Connelly<\/strong>, author of a biography of Sylvia Pankhurst and coordinator of last year\u2019s Emily Wilding Davison Memorial Campaign.
\nAnd
\nIsabella Ford; a socialist and feminist Peace Campaigner in World War One<\/strong>
\nSpeaker: June Hannam<\/strong>, Professor (Emerita) of Modern British History, University of the West of England.<\/p>\n

6th November at 7pm
\n1914 and the Schism in International Anarchism<\/strong>
\nSpeaker: Pietro Dipaola<\/strong>, senior lecture, University of Lincoln and author of The Knights-Errant of Anarchy: London and the Italian Anarchist Diaspora<\/em> 1880-1917 (Liverpool University Press, 2013).
\nNot Our War<\/strong>
\nSpeaker: Tony Zurbrugge<\/strong>, publisher at the Merlin Press and editor of the recent book \u201cNot Our War\u201d<\/em> (2014).<\/p>\n

Q and A after each talk.<\/p>\n

Venue
\nThe Brockway Room
\nConway Hall
\n25 Red Lion Square
\nLondon, WC1R 4RL<\/p>\n

Further information and tickets;\u00a0http:\/\/www.conwayhall.org.uk\/stop-the-first-world-war<\/p>\n

Supported by the Socialist History Society: http:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

30th September 2014 at 7pm Norman Angell \u2013 liberal, radical, socialist, pacifist or patriot?\u00a0 Speaker: Martin Ceadel,\u00a0 Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College. 7th October at 7pm From Ivory Tower to Activist: Persistent Dissent: Bertrand Russell\u2019s response to the War and Conscription Speaker:\u00a0Chris Bratcher,\u00a0\u00a0former Chair of Conway … <\/p>\n

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