Attendance of this event is free, but all guests are asked to register via this link no later than 26 October. All registered participants will subsequently receive further information on the event. If you have any questions, you can contact the organisers (Daniel Laqua, Charlotte Alston and Laura O'Brien) via historiesofactivism@gmail.com.
PROGRAMME
Friday 4 November
14h00 Opening by the
organisers
14h15 Radical
histories of Ireland and Irishness
- Terence McBride (University of the West of Scotland) – The radical narrative and Irishness in post-1848 Glasgow: the role of the Glasgow Free Press
- Felix Larkin (Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland) – Riding the back of the tiger: Irish rebellions of the 19th century as portrayed in the Sunday Freeman newspaper
- Ultán Gillen (Teesside) – Rethinking Wolfe Tone, reimagining revolution in 1960s Ireland
- Chair: Peter O’Connor (Northumbria)
15h45 Coffee break
16h10 Echoes of 1848
- Abigail Green (Oxford) – Children of 1848: Jewish liberal activists and the revolutionary tradition
- Laura O’Brien (Northumbria) – ‘These great ideas bestowed to us by the past’: education, commemoration and the 1948 centenary of the French revolution of 1848
- Daniel Laqua (Northumbria) – Nationhood between reconstruction and reunification: commemorating the 1848 revolution in 20th-century Germany
- Chair: Timothy Baycroft (Sheffield)
17h40 Spaces and traces of radicalism
- Joseph Hardwick (Northumbria) – Mapping Tyneside radicalism
- Nigel Todd (WEA) – Newcastle’s radical past: a walking tour
20h00 Conference dinner
Saturday 5 November
10h15 Images and imaginations of revolutionary change
- Ben Partridge (Newcastle) – Imagining revolutions: radical heritage in the photography of May ‘68
- Laura Forster (King’s College London) – The battle for the Commune: Raspouteam and the remapping of Paris, 1871–2011
- Discussant: Timothy Baycroft (Sheffield)
- Chair: James Koranyi (Durham)
11h30 Coffee
break
11h50 British activism and the construction of radical
legacies
- Joe Cozens (Essex) – The memory of the Peterloo Massacre in the long nineteenth century, 1819–1919
- Mark Nixon (Edinburgh) – Political heritage in the 1884 franchise demonstrations in Scotland
- Discussant: Joan Allen (Newcastle)
- Chair: John Belchem (Liverpool)
13h05 Lunch
break / AGM, Society for the Study of Labour History
14h15 National
and international narratives
- Tom Stammers (Durham) – Globalising the French Revolution in interwar France
- Christian Hogsbjerg (UCL) – Globalising the Haitian Revolution in interwar Paris
- Chair: Charlotte Alston (Northumbria)
15h15 Coffee
break
15h30 Political movements and the uses of the past
- Máire F. Cross (Newcastle) – Peace in our time? Revolutionary aspirations of French utopian socialists narrated in a twentieth century pacifist context
- Marcella Sutcliffe (Cambridge) – Fighting for the soul of the British Left under Mazzini’s banner: co-operators versus socialists (c. 1885–1949)
- Amerigo Caruso (Saarbrücken) – Anti-revolutionary paranoia and the foundation of modern conservative political discourse in the long nineteenth century
- Chair: André Keil (Sunderland)
17h00 Closing
remarks
