UPCOMING EVENTS THIS AUTUMN

10 – 3.30 pm
Room 4, Friends Meeting House
PLACES LIMITED

Oral History Training

As part of the Documenting Dissent project, North West Sound Archive are providing a FREE oral history training session for those interested in documenting dissent 

through audio recordings.

Tuesday October 22nd
William Stout Room, Friends Meeting House 
2 – 4 pm

Prisoners of Conscience at Lancaster Castle

For those who missed Dr Michael Mullet′s fascinating lecture on the incarceration of prisoners of conscience at Lancaster Castle, with a particular focus on religious dissenters, this is another opportunity for people to attend.
Extra time will be given over for discussion.

Songs, Speeches and Suicides: Chartism and the power of the word

Dr Mike Sanders will deliver a lecture on the importance of the word - spoken, sung and written - within the Chartist movement.  The lecture will explore the ways Chartists used speeches, songs and poetry to convey their ideas and will end with Richard Pillings dramatic speech from the dock of the Lancaster courtroom, where he was facing a charge of sedition and tumult following the strikes of 1842.

Singer Garth Hewitt will be performing songs from his album based on the National Chartist Hymn Book to accompany the lecture. 

The 1884 Franchise Demonstrations in the Lancaster Area

Historian Dr. Mark Nixon will give a lecture exploring North Lancashire’s radical political activism in the late 19th century, which included a series of major political demonstrations, demanding the vote for working-class men (and sometimes women) and often also the abolition of the House of Lords.

Dr. Nixon will use real objects for the audience to handle and discuss, as well as images to link the local demonstrations to national events and radical political causes of the day.