Thank you very much!

I was very pleased Lauren thought to remember the miners and Bradford Pit. It was a great project. My own ancestors were a large family of miners there too and I had been researching their history since the 1950’s while the people who knew the miners were still alive. Of course I backed up my research with death certificates and records from the miners’ accident year books. Fortunately my great grandfather had also recorded births and deaths in the Family Bible. The Payton’s and the Horne’s. In Victorian times had travelled from the South Staffordshire Black Country Coal fields to find work in Bradford Pit and some were still working there well into the twentieth Century. One of my ancestors was killed in the pit. Regarding his death, I wondered if his death had appeared in Lauren’s research. Unfortunately it was recorded erroneously and neither the death certificate nor the miners’ year book for 1901 deaths agree with her about his name. I tried via face book and the enquiry section of the Bradford Pit Memorial project to get in touch with Lauren but so far, no answer. You see, My great uncle’s name was John Henry Horne and he was killed in the pit on 5th March 1901. Lauren has the date and year correct but not his name which she recorded differently in two lists. On one list she calls him James Henry Horne and on the other list she calls him John Henry Home. I was so disappointed. If I had not done my own research and had received eye witness statements I could so easily have been misled. I am old now and fortunate that I have made records of my own with the proof for my grandchildren.

Top notch presentation. So Insightful!

“Social Murder”, what a frightening analysis.

By that definition jo Cox should also have expected to have been killed for being a member of the institutionally racist Labour Party then

A man who had an eventful life and a very eventful after life.

But if were black that would be ok?seriously who do you people think your fooling.This isn't about the bourgeoisie,it's about jealously

Very interesting article, this is our great Uncle. We have some original documents pertaining to the investigations that were opened up from Scotland Yard but as other people have said we do not have the whole picture.

Virginia Woolf wrote the introduction to the book Life As We Have Known It by Co-operative Working Women edited by Margaret Llewelyn Davies

Great presentation. I am mexican and I am doing an investigation about the 19th Century. We had to choose a topic of our interest and do a project about it. Ever since i learned of Lydia Becker i became very interested and this presentation helped greatly. Amazing! Keep up the good work 🙌

Thankyou so very much

Does Dr. Boran have a contact email? I know she retired and I have been unable to locate a point of contact. Presently I am unable to get her book as I live in America, and I was looking to see if she might have come across any information on my great grandfather Frank Dormer. Frank is in the ITGWU photo with Dr. Boran's dad, and I was looking to see if she knows anything about his work with the ITGWU.

I am watching and listening to this in the context of research into the High Wycombe furniture lockout or trade dispute of 1913-14 which was extremely violent, as well as the preceding and subsequent events such as the peoples' riot and the police revenge super-riot during the January 1910 general election, and more peoples' disorders during another furniture lockout in 1919. What was a bit different about the Wycombe events in 1913 was that the trade dispute, including the use of force and the establishment of a workers' militia known as the Anti Violence Brigade, was led by the trade union from above in partnership with the upsurge of anger from below. The NAFTA trade union was an industrial union formed by the amalgamation of a range of craft societies, and it had a left socialist leadership of ILP members. Yes, a TUC affiliated trade union set up a workers' militia armed with domestic implements such as the iron poker.

But not against Groomers ...fkn red scum.

It was Dr. Raphael Lemkin a human rights lawyer who in 1944 defined the term "genocide" described now by some as "the crime of all crimes". He presented the genocide of Ukrainians perpetrated by Soviet Bolshevik communists in four stages. The Holodomor Genocide 1932 -33 (death by starvation of the Ukrainian peasantry), the extermination of the Ukrainian intelligentsia, the destruction of the Ukrainian Orthodox church its parishes and clergy and the mass deportations of ethic Ukrainians from the territory of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic to remote and extreme areas of the Soviet Union and Gulag concentration camps. With the suppression of the Ukrainian language, arts and culture Ukraine became a Russified soviet satellite republic. It was the Ukrainians who showed the greatest resistance to soviet communism demonstrated by the hundreds of peasant uprisings and dissident movements and as a consequence it was the Ukrainians who suffered the most repression during the Soviet Union's reign of terror which resulted in millions of deaths. Estimates go as high as ten million victims. This is not common knowledge in the UK for some strange reason. Forbidden history?

Thanks for this informative talk; I'm going to be delivering a paper on "Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion" at a conference in July. I hope it will contribute to the growing work on this terrific writer.

Dismisses Communism as "humanism." Tell it to the estimated 100 million people, murdered under Communist regimes, during the 20th century.

Very enjoyable - shame you didn't ask any of us about it! 284 in the Civil Service all plotting secretly....they only got those names because we told the members in our hustings for union elections that we were supporters of Militant, and we were successful because members supported us 😁

Why was I recommended this in my feed haha

Excellent songs!

Very interesting. I have been on the end of class discrimination a couple of times in my life, especially due to educational institutions, because of my childhood address and parents employment and accent. Also in the past we were acculturated into a deference to our supposed 'superiors'. Valerie Iveson hits the nail on the head. Brilliant!

Great presentation - excellent

Fascinating talk I will be buying the book.

Splendid. Thanks

Other than getting the picture of Spence wrong, the content of this talk is good. I enjoyed it, There is not enough out there about this amazing man Thomas Spence, who had many opinions/ideas well ahead of his time. I came across him when studying the 'Spencean' Cato Street Conspiracy of 23 Feb 1820. Spence was a communist before communism, a feminist before feminism and against child exploration before anyone else I know of. Thanks for the talk,

The first picture is not Thomas Spence. It is a picture of Arthur Thistlewood. Thistlewood was a Spencean but he is not Thimas Spence. Thistlewwod was executed for his part in the Cato Street Conspiracy in 1820.

Is Martyn OK? He looks unwell here (no offence)

That was great Louisa really enjoyed listening to it. I'm now interested in Friederich and will be listening to your band too. Thanks 👏✊

Thanks for posting, an excellent talk.

Michael Sanders, brilliant. Definitely learned a lot.

Childless, never married women, giving us a gameplan to raise happy families and retire comfortably. Great work, ladies!

I read Oliver Price's paper. He doesn't mention it here but he relies heavily on Crick's book but none of the many books written by Militant members and its successors in the Socialist Party, many of which are available to read online.

This was great, thank you so much for putting this together and uploading it!

The sound is echoey/scratchy. Unlistenable-if that’s a word. Shame.

Brilliant. Paul Salveson, what a nice chap. Very informative, thanks.

I'd love to see a comparison of 'Invasion of the Dinosaurs' with Doris Lessing 's The Golden Notebook: expressions of disillusionment with authoritarianism in the British Communist Party - one in 'popular', one in 'literary' fiction?

Thanks very much to WCML and to Ben Harker, really enjoyed that discussion!

Fascinating talk about a group that I wasn't aware of but sound very much in line with my own politics

On the "stuffed vine leaves" interview that Kerrie plays here, I'm now informed that I was at the Big Flame men's flat in Speke -- not at Tower Hill. But it does tell you something about Big Flame: many of us paid a lot of attention to the personal aspects of life; we were not Lenin's "dead men on leave". The other reasons why I joined Big Flame was that after tea I met the women in Big Flame, and the following day I went to picket the Ford plant at Halewood. (A good lesson here in the unreliability of memory and the difficulty of writing history.)

I often thought one reason Big Flame wasn't more "successful" , was that for many members BF as an organisation tended to be secondary to our own specific political interests and activism ; unlike all the Trotskyist sects whose number one priority under the strict control of their central committee , was building their own elite version of The Revolutionary Party that would lead the working class to "salvation".

Why did it close down?

Great poems

Impressive project and excellent talk. Thank you Lauren and WCML.

Well done Lauren! Very impressive passion, dedication, vision and community engagement. I look forward to the opportunity to visit the memorial!

Great Talk, great details, Thankyou.

a valuable and precious document, thank you

Wonderful to hear from Benny, Maurice and Bernard about this important and often overlooked history. Also to see these Syd Booth artworks along with the fantastic images from the collection.

I saw the film but missed the discussion meeting. I really appreciated everyone's insightful comments. One thing that I particularly enjoyed was the presence of women workers, in the film; with an independent working life, work on the line but also with work mates, a social life with friends, looking attractive and flirting with the camera(man) etc. How exciting the whole film must have been to the very poor, still largely rural population of the Soviet Union. Socialist realism at its best! Pia

Thanks for sharing

I love Malcolm Hulke's work. His Doctor Who stories are among my favourites. I only wish he had written more.