The Brian Manning Memorial Lecture
- This year's lecture
- A4 notice for pinning on notice boards, etc
- Previous years' lectures
Reiner Tosstorff, "Case closed: The Assassination of Andreu Nin, the Persecution of the POUM and its Background."
Saturday 19th May 2007, 11am
The Institute of Historical ResearchSenate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU.
Previous lectures:
Saturday 20th May 2006
Dave Lyddon, "80 Years Since the General Strike - what view do historians now take?"
Saturday 14th May 2005
Norah Carlin, "'For liberties, justice and settlement': petitioning for revolution in 1648-9 ."
The Brian Manning Memorial Lecture is designed to promote the approach to history followed by the late Brian Manning.
Brian Manning's books and articles were dedicated to the study of England in the 1640s; he defended the Good Old Cause of republicanism, Cromwell against King Charles, the Agitators against Cromwell and the Levellers against the New Model Army. As a member of the New Left and CND in the 1950s, and of the revolutionary left forty years later, he embodied a notion of socialist history that had roots outside the academy as well as within.
Each year the Brian Manning Memorial Lecture will present and promote the newest insights and the best research that build on the same tradition of committed, activist history.