People's London

 

 

2nd December, 2006

 

Conway Hall

London WC2

 

A day-long public event in commemoration of Raphael Samuel, organised by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, University of East London.

 

 

 

Programme

 

 

10:00 am ‘Adventures in the Valley’ (slideshow of Lea Valley).

 

10:30 – 12:30

 

‘London Pasts and Futures’

 

A speakers’ panel followed by general audience discussion. Participants: Tristram Hunt (historian, Queen Mary London), David Gilbert (historical geographer, Royal Holloway London), Nicky Gavron (Deputy Mayor of London), Nick Raynsford (MP for Greenwich)

 

12:30 – 1:30.

 

Lunch (£5).

 

1:30 – 3:30 pm

 

‘People’s History: Past and Present’.

 

A speakers’ panel followed by general audience discussion.

Introduction by Jerry White (historian, Birkbeck College, local government ombudsman): ‘Raphael Samuel and People’s London’. Panel: Anna Davin (historian, editor of History Workshop Journal), Ken Worpole (writer and environmentalist), James Vernon (historian, Berkeley); Glenn Jordan (University of Glamorgan); Luisa Passerini (historian, Turin University). 

 

3:30 – 4:30

Patrick Keiller: The City of the Future.  Films followed by discussion.

 

4:30 – 5

Tea Break

 

5 – 7:

The 2006 Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture. Gareth Stedman Jones (Cambridge, editor of History Workshop Journal): ‘The Redemptive Powers of Violence? Carlyle, Dickens and Marx on the Legacy of the French Revolution’.

 

7 – 11:

Supper (£5), bar, and music (rock, jazz, traditional)

 

Gourmet vegetarian food available at low cost from Leon Lewis, winner of first prize in the Festival Food awards 2005.

 

There will also be book stalls, photo and digital exhibitions, and a display from the Raphael Samuel archive. 

The Raphael Samuel History Centre

University of East London