Independent Working-Class Education Network Day School
After ‘plebgate’ and the Ruskin archives shredding:
CAN WE REBUILD THE PLEBS TRADITION?
10.00 – 5.00, Saturday 24th November 2012
Northern College, Wentworth Castle, Stainborough, nr Barnsley, S. Yorks
(M1 J36 or J37. Lifts possible from Barnsley station. For buses etc visit www.northern.ac.uk. Fully accessible)
£12.00 includes lunch. Pay on day. Overnight accommodation available. Shared travel pool. Please email now to confirm/book your place: venables_keith@yahoo.co.uk
Contributors:
Martin Bashforth:
‘Can family history be radical history?’
Dave Berry:
‘Learning in unions’
Alex Gordon, ex-President RMT:
‘RMT’s continuation of the IWCE tradition today’
Hilda Kean, formerly dean, Ruskin College:
‘Whose archives? Whose history?’ Lessons of the destruction at Ruskin College, Oxford
Edd Mustill:
‘How pre-WW1 socialist groups educated their members’
Alan Roe, regional manager Unionlearn, Yorks & Humber:
‘Narrowing participation for the many: where next?
Colin Waugh:
‘Should we be trying to build ‘popular universities’?’(The IWCE Network aims to: offer a diverse range of education materials and approaches for T.U. and other working-class and progressive movement groups; respect the role of the working class in making history and the future.)