Online talk on satirist and utopian writer Thomas Spence
This Wednesday, 6 October at 2pm Frank Palmeri will deliver an online talk for us, ‘Thomas Spence: satirist, utopian, socialist’.
Thomas Spence has been recognised as the most important socialist thinker of the 1790s. He was also a strong satirist of aristocracy and of land-holders generally. This talk will consider Spence as a satirist and utopian writer, and will conclude by considering parallels between the thought and writing of Spence and of William Morris a century later.
Further October talks
All of our Invisible Histories talks through to December are now listed on our Web site; some are listed as ‘online’ meaning that our speaker is attending remotely rather than in person, so we will not have a live audience in the annexe. Other talks we are planning to offer both in person and via Zoom. All talks are free and will be live-streamed, with a Zoom link available to ebulletin subscribers on the Monday ahead of each talk. Full details at www.wcml.org.uk/events. All talks are also recorded for later viewing at www.youtube.com/wcmlibrary.
The talks for the rest of this month are as follows:
13 Oct Amy Todd ‘The Peckham Publishing Project’ (online)
20 Oct Peter John Fyles ‘The real SDF: rank and file branch activities and responses in Lancashire 1884-1918’ (online)
26 or 27 Oct tbc Black History Month event ‘Multiculturalism in northern England: history, issues and debates’ with Shamim Miah and Mike Makin-Waite (online and in person)
Libraries Week
This week is Libraries Week, which celebrates the UK’s much-loved libraries and the central role that libraries play in their community as a driver for inclusion, sustainability, social mobility and community cohesion. If you’re active on social media you might like to know that today, Monday 4 October, the first day of Libraries Week, CILIP the library professionals’ organisation is inviting people to take part in their photo campaign, using the hashtag #ShareTheChange to share stories of the change this library or any other library has made to their life, or how a library has enabled them to make a positive impact on their community.
You can read more about Libraries Week here.
