IWCE Network (www.iwceducation.co.uk) day-school,
supported also by Labour Heritage
Independent Working-Class Education: can we rebuild the tradition?
10.30-4.30 Saturday 30th November 2013 (registration from 10.00)
Wallsend Memorial Hall, 10 Frank Street, Wallsend, Newcastle NE28 6RN
Close to Wallsend Metro station (15 minutes approx. from Newcastle Central station; change at Monument for Wallsend)
£6.00 including lunch
Please email iwceducation@yahoo.co.uk to book a place
Short presentations from:
Richard Lewis, author of Leaders and Teachers, groundbreaking study of the Plebs League and WEA in South Wales, on ‘Rivalries and realities in workers’ education’
Lewis Mates, on ‘Ruskin and Central Labour College studentsin the Durham coalfield, 1909-14’
Hugo Radice, on ‘Imagining socialism: an everyday utopia’
John Stirling and Dave Wray, on the ‘Dig Where You Stand’ initiative
Rob Turnbull on ‘Right for the Rising Sun, Left for Swan Hunter: the Plebs League in the North East of England’
Colin Waugh, author of ‘Plebs’: The Lost Legacy of Independent Working-Class Education, on ‘The Ruskin Strike of 1909’
Plenty of time for questions and discussion.
All welcome iwceducation@yahoo.co.uk