UCU London Retired Members Branch:UCU London Retired Members Branch

UCU London Retired Members Branch:UCU London Retired Members Branch

September Branch Newsletter The latest UCU London Retired members Branch Newsletter is now available and may be downloaded from here...includes articles on Housing, PFI  in the NHS, Amnesty International. National Pensioners’’ Convention: Older People’s Day (1st October) History Seminars Socialist History Society Saturday 19 September - Stan Newens, former Labour MP and Socialist History Society Honorary President speaks on The Achievements of the 1945 Labour Government. Venue: Marx House, 37a Clerkenwell Green London EC1R 0DU. Time: 2.00 pm. UCL Institute of the Americas - Caribbean Seminar September 30th 6pm David Lambert "Am I not a Man and a Soldier?" (Re)imagining the West India Regiments in the Age of Abolition more details... London Socialist Historians Group: 12 October - Merilyn Moos - Generations: the impact of the personal and political on children born in Britain to refugees from Nazism 26 October -  John Newsinger  British Counter Insurgency. A history 9 November - Chris Jury  Politics, theatre and history Socialist History Society and the Freethought History Research Group. The British Business of Slavery  A series of Tuesday evening talks starting on 6 October, running to 8 December 2015. Venue: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1R 4RL. All talks start at 7.00 p.m. Tuesday 6 October 2015 Freedom’s Debt, the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade (1672- 1752) Dr William Pettigrew, University of Kent Tuesday 13 October 2015 First Prime Minister of the London Empire, William Beckford, Jamaican Planter & Lord Mayor of London (1709 – 1770) Dr Perry Gauci, University of Oxford Tuesday 20 October 2015 The Law’s Ambiguous Struggle with Slavery Prof Satvinder Juss, King’s College London Tuesday 27 October 2015 George Hibbert M.P. (1757-1837) and the Defence of British Slavery Dr Katie Donington, University of Nottingham Tuesday 3 November 2015 The Unfortunate Colonel Despard, “Govenor of Belize”, Anti-racist, Democrat, Executed as a Traitor 1803 Mike Jay, author Tuesday 24 November 2015 Slavery and the Shaping of British Culture James Walvin, Professor Emeritus, University of York Tuesday 1 December 2015 A British-Owned Congo, Roger Casement’s Battle with Slavery in Peru (1910-1914) Prof Jordan Goodman, University College London Tuesday 8 December 2015 Identifying Unfinished Business, the UK Modern Slavery Act (2015) Prof Gary Craig, Durham University & University of Hull

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