How historians can support campaigners and challenge institutional racism
Online Meeting, Tuesday 16 June: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
With lockdown in place History Acts has gone online. Admission is free but we ask all participants to Register in Advance
ACTIVISTS
Jabu-Nala Hartley - Black Lives Matter / Oxford Anti-Racist City
Jabu co-founded Oxford Anti-Racist City, a project which focuses on disrupting and challenging institutional racism. Jabu has been part of the Black Lives Matters protests in O...
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HISTORY ACTS 22 – RECORDING A CRISIS
Those most affected by COVID-19 are often unable to speak. Who else is not being heard or listened to? Historians and archivists consider what needs to be done.
Online Meeting
Tuesday 9 June: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Admission is free but we ask all participants to Register in Advance
With lockdown in place History Acts has gone online, with some quickly-organised workshops, focusing specifically on activists' responses to the pandemic.
ACTIVISTS
Paul Dudman – Living Refugee Archive
The Living Refuge...
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HISTORY ACTS 21 – PRISONS IN LOCKDOWN
HISTORY ACTS 21 - PRISONS IN LOCKDOWN
How the pandemic has exacerbated the appalling conditions in prisons and migrant detention centres, and how abolitionist and anti-prison expansion activists are adapting to socially distant forms of organising.
Online Meeting
Tuesday 19 May: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
For more details and to log on please visit historyacts.org
With lockdown in place History Acts has gone online, with some quickly-organised workshops, focusing specifically on activists' responses t...
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History Acts 20 – Fighting With Data
How activists can use, resist or generate the data that is being deployed in this crisis
Online Meeting
Tuesday 5 May: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
For more details and to log on please visit historyacts.org
Ordinarily, History Acts run face-to-face workshops. With lockdown in place however, we've decided to go online, with some quickly-organised workshops, focusing specifically on activists' responses to the pandemic. For our third event we are discussing ‘How activists can use, resist or generate the...
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HISTORY ACTS 19 – THE WORK CRISIS
How can workers organise, resist & protect themselves during this pandemic?
Online Meeting
Tuesday 28 April: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
For more details and to log on please visit historyacts.org
Ordinarily, History Acts run face-to-face workshops. With lockdown in place however, we've decided to go online, with some quickly-organised workshops, focusing specifically on activists' responses to the pandemic. For our second event we are discussing ‘How can workers organise, resist & protect the...
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HISTORY ACTS 18 – LOCKED DOWN PART 2
Organising community support and mutual aid during pandemics
This online History Acts event was disrupted by alt-right protestors on Thursday. We are reconvening for part 2 on Tuesday evening. Please do join us to hear how activists and historians are organising, supporting and making sense of the current pandemic.
We make our events open to all, but security has been strengthened to protect all participants. If you would like to attend, we ask you to register - follow the link at historya...
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HISTORY ACTS 18 – LOCKED DOWN
Organising community support and mutual aid during pandemics
Online Meeting
Thursday 2 April: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
For more details and to log on please visit historyacts.org
Ordinarily, History Acts run face-to-face workshops. With lockdown in place however, we've decided to go online, with some quickly-organised workshops, focusing specifically on activists' responses to the pandemic. For our first event we are discussing ‘Organising community support and mutual aid during pandemics’.
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Heart Medicine: Poppers and London’s Gay Nightlife in the 1970s-80s, Ben Mechen (KCL)
History of Sexuality Seminar
Heart Medicine: Poppers and London’s Gay Nightlife in the 1970s-80s, Ben Mechen (KCL)
28 January 2020, 5:15pm - 7:15pm
Dreyfus Room, Birkbeck, 26-8 Russell Square, London WC1B 5 DQ
(please note that there is no lift access to this second-floor room)
In January 1987, thirty-five Metropolitan Police officers in rubber gloves raided the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, one of the city’s most famous gay pubs, claiming it to be a den of drugs, drunkenness and prostitution. T...
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Roundtable to launch ‘From Sodomy Laws to Same-Sex Marriage: International Perspectives since 1789’
Roundtable to launch 'From Sodomy Laws to Same-Sex Marriage: International Perspectives since 1789'
History of Sexuality Seminar
12 December 2019, 5:15pm - 7:15pm
Dreyfus Room, Birkbeck, University of London, 26-28 Russell Square, London WC1B 5 DQ
Free, no need to book
With Benno Gammerl (Goldsmiths, University of London), Rebecca Jennings (UCL), Daniel Monk (Birkbeck, University of London)
Inspired by recent adoptions of same-sex marriage, 'From Sodomy Laws to Same-Sex Marriage' provides...
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Stonewall 50 Years On: Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism in its European Context
Friday 6 December 2019, 9am – 6.45 pm
John Dalton Building (T0.03), Manchester Metropolitan University
Organised in cooperation between the Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage and the Raphael Samuel History Centre.
Tickets – free, but please book by 1 December https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stonewall-50-years-on-gay-liberation-lesbian-feminism-in-europe-tickets-66309135409
June 2019 marked the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City, often credited as the spark ...
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