Independent Working-Class Education Network Day School Update/Reminder
After 'Plebgate' and the Ruskin archives shredding . . .
CAN WE REBUILD THE PLEBS LEAGUE TRADITION?
10.00-5.00 Saturday 24 November 2012
Northern College, nr Barnsley, S. Yorks
(M1 J36 or J37. Visit www.northern.ac.uk for venue details, buses etc. Fully accessible.)
£12.00 (concs £8.00) includes lunch. Pay on day.
Overnight accommodation available. We can subsidise travel.
If you have not already done so, please email Keith Venables on:
venables_keith [at] yahoo.co.uk
to confirm/book your place.
(Strong take-up to date, hence we need to know whether to increase our booking at Northern.)
If you want a lift from Barnsley Railway Station at around 9.45, or for any other details, please email Keith as above.
Contributors:
Martin Bashforth: 'Can family history be radical history?'
Dave Berry: 'Learning in unions'
Alex Gordon, 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'
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'?'