Hosted by No Glory and Imperial War Museum. Speakers: Professor Sir Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford, Dr Neil Faulkner, Modern Conflict Archaeologist, University of Bristol. Join us for this special Centenary debate. Hear professor Sir Hew Strachan and Dr Neil Faulkner discuss whether Britain should have entered the first world war.
Debate: Should Britain Have Gone to War in 1914?
How nearly everything in Dr Strangelove is true, and what we need to do about it
Speaker: Eric Schlosser
Levellers' Day - Education – the key to Democracy
Melissa Benn, Kevin Courtney NUT and Professor Danny Dorling.
Radical history inspires today. Learning the lessons of history from the pioneers of 1649 to the challenges of today
Anti-Jewish & Anti-Muslim racisms and the question of Palestine/Israel.
Conference. Earlybird registration £15 ends 30 November 2014
Sponsors: Centre for research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (UEL), Centre for the study of Human Rights (LSE), The Runnymede Trust, Centre for Palestine Studies, London Middle East Institute (SOAS).
‘On Liberty’
The Corin Redgrave Memorial Lecture, delivered by Shami Chakrabarti.
Gallipoli.
School of History, Welsh History, & Archaeology: Autumn 2014 Seminar Series: Commemorating the First World War (5:30pm; most meetings in Cledwyn Rooms, next to Teras cafe, Terrace level, Main Arts Building, Bangor University, College Road.)
With Dr Peter Liddle (retired, formerly of Leeds University)
The energy revolution coming your way – and it’s not nuclear!
Talk by Jonathan Porritt.
Commemorating the First World War
School of History, Welsh History, & Archaeology: Autumn 2014 Seminar Series:
5:30pm; most meetings in Cledwyn Rooms, next to Teras cafe, Terrace level, Main Arts Building, Bangor University, College Road.
Professor Nathan Abrams (Bangor University): Stanley Kubrick's film 'Paths of Glory' (1957).
Remembering the First World War in Wales.
Speaker Sir Deian Hopkin (former vice-chancellor, South Bank University, University of London. Current president, National Library of Wales. Special advisor to Welsh Assembly Government, relating to commemorating WW1.)
Life in Occupied Palestine
Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories and Photos, A Film by Anna Baltzer, grand-daughter of Holocaust refugees.
WW1 Exhibition:
'The Great War'/'Y Rhyfel Mawr'
Has one display case on the conscientious objectors of WW1; another on War Poets.
WW1 and Pacifism
A FREE conference on WW1 and Pacifism. Includes speakers from The Society of Friends (Quakers), Veterans for Peace UK, The Peace Pledge Union.
@Idea Store Whitechapel (conference room, 1st floor).
Pacifism and Property Rights.
Pacifism and Nonviolence Discussion Group meet on the second Tuesday of the month. All are welcome, but please be prepared to join in the discussion. Please try to turn up by 7pm sharp.
Pacifism and Pleasure.
Pacifism and Nonviolence Discussion Group meet on the second Tuesday of the month. All are welcome, but please be prepared to join in the discussion. Please try to turn up by 7pm sharp. The topic this month might or might not turn out to be seasonally related.
East London Against Arms Fairs AGM
Annual General Meeting of East London Against Arms Fairs, ELAAF.
All supporters are urged to come to this meeting if they possibly can. If you only come to one meeting a year please come to this one.
Musical Protest
The ExCeL Centre which threatens to hold another “DSEI” Arms Fair in 2015 also holds different exhibitions all year round which attract large crowds. ELAAF Musical Protests aim to raise awareness of the arms trade and campaign for the cancellation of all arms fairs at ExCeL or anywhere else. More supporters are needed. Just turn up and be welcome.
Musical Protest at the ExCeL Centre
The ExCeL Centre, which threatens to hold another “DSEI” Arms Fair in 2015, also holds different exhibitions all year round which attract large crowds. ELAAF Musical Protests aim to raise awareness of the arms trade and campaign for the cancellation of all arms fairs at ExCeL or anywhere else. More supporters are needed. Just turn up and be welcome.
Leafleting outside the London Transport Museum
Join London Group of CAMPAIGN AGAINST ARMS TRADE Leafleting outside the London Transport Museum, Covent Garden Piazza , nearest tube Covent Garden. Protest at sponsorship of London Transport Museum by an Arms Company, Thales.
Meeting of ELAAF
Anyone opposed to Arms Fairs will be welcome at a meeting of ELAAF
Peace News presents: Weaving Our Own Web
A dayschool from the people who brought you the Rebellious Media Conference – on using the internet to strengthen our groups, and to campaign more effectively.
A gathering for grassroots and local activists with web experts including Emma Sangster (Peace News), Cedric Knight (GreenNet), Kirk Jackson (Campaign Against Arms Trade) and others.