Conference on: Can we rebuild the plebs tradition ?
2012 July 28
A timely conference is being held by the Independent Working-Class Education Network. As they put it ‘After “plebgate” and the Ruskin archive shredding , can we rebuild the Plebs tradition?
Speakers include Martin Bashforth (who is a contributor to the People and their Pasts book) on radical family history, Alex Gordon, president of the RMT union. I will be speaking on ‘ Whose archive? Whose history? Lessons of the destruction at Ruskin College, Oxford’
The conference is on Saturday November 24th from 10 to 5 at Northern College, near Barnsley.
Cost is £12 per person including lunch and a shared travel pool operates.
Please book in advance with Keith Venables. Also contact Keith for further details venables_keith@yahoo.co.uk
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