Jack O'Connor

Eleven people sit and stand around large tables to look at archive material at the Working Class Movement Library.

We are working with eleven young people to co-curate our next exhibition, the Grunwick Strike Revisited. The exhibition, being delivered in partnership with University of Manchester, will explore the legacy of the Grunwick Strike 1976-1978 and will open this summer.

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Cultural and Social History Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives. Volume 23, Issue 1 of Cultural and Social History

The special issue of Cultural and Social History on “Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives” (co-ed. w Georgina Brewis & Jodi Burkett) is live - yay! Several articles are OA :) Huge thanks to our contributors & the journal editors!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfcs20/2...

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The Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Lambeth – London County Council (LCC) and Greater London Council (GLC) Architect’s Department, 1963-68 Image © Morley von Sternberg

BREAKING NEWS: We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that the Southbank Centre - the Hayward Gallery, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall and skaters undercroft - has finally been Grade II listed by DCMS after a 35 year long campaign.

➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/southba...

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Congratulations!

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*expanding

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Expand the New University research for the forthcoming book. Nice morning for it in York.

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Neal Ascherson · Professor Heathrow: Asa Briggs says yes Asa Briggs used sweeping educational change to increase equality in England. He helped to make history, as well as...

“Today, as universities falter and plutocratic inequality towers over Asa’s England, will anyone draw a new Map of Learning?”

Professor Heathrow www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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What Robert Jenrick doesn’t understand about Birmingham I was one of a handful of white kids at my school in the city. It enriched my life and worldview

A weird time to be a historian of multiculturalism, who grew up in Birmingham as one of a handful of white kids at school, who has also written a book on Handsworth. My thoughts on Robert Jenrick’s unabashed racism in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

www.thenewworld.co.uk/kieran-conne...

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Some images from the great Neither Factory Records nor Madchester: Rethinking Manchester’s Musical and Subcultural Histories conference last week.

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Neither Factory Records nor Madchester: Rethinking Manchester’s Musical and Subcultural Histories - School of Digital Arts (SODA) – Manchester Metropolitan University Cities tell stories about themselves. Manchester likes to tell a story about itself that’s often summed up in the alleged words of Tony Wilson, founder of

Conference coming up later this month, lots of great papers, including one from me. @manmetuni.bsky.social www.schoolofdigitalarts.mmu.ac.uk/events/neith...

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It looks great, congratulations.

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Competing narratives for a new university: Student press at Sussex and Essex, 1960–1979 This article explores how the student press at the New Universities of Sussex and Essex functioned as a key source of expression for the student body, revealing how students developed a sense of id...

Might as well start with a bit of self promotion.
I have an article out on student histories at @sussexuni.bsky.social and @universityofessex.bsky.social.

'Competing narratives for a new university: Student press at Sussex and Essex, 1960–1979'
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Checking out what is going on over here...

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