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Raphael Samuel History Centre
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Outreach and research centre devoted to encouraging the widest possible participation in historical study and debate.
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‘Waning Crescent: the rise and fall of global Islam’
Come along to the launch of Professor Faisal Devji's book, where he discusses his examination of the rise of Islam as a global historical actor.
1st December, London E1. WaningCrescent.eventbrite.co.uk
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November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Join us for 'Sanctuary, Now and Then: asylum, migrant rights and anti-deportation in Britain since the 1980s.'
Speakers include Stuart Crosthwaite, Amy Grant, Rachel Humphris, Paul Weller
7 Nov 12.00pm, Manchester Central Library
Book here sanctuarynowandthen.eventbrite.co.uk
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October 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Leaflet about Archival Ambivalence event, 28 October, London WC1B. Shows archivist looking in archive.
October 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Undercover Policing of the Left 1968-1982:
Subversives Under the Lens
Chris Brian from the Undercover Research Group talks about his chapter in their new book
6.00pm, 15 October, London WC1E 7JL
Book here UndercoverPolicingLeft.eventbrite.co.uk
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September 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Did the British republican tradition endure through the Cold War?
'Reassessing E. P. Thompson’s Political Thought: The Case for Radical Republicanism'
6 June, 3.00pm, London WC1E
EPThompson.eventbrite.co.uk
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May 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Only a week to go!
Changing The Record, 19 May, London
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May 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Changing the Record: how do those on the margins keep paper trails to protect their existence, then change their situation through it?
19/5/25
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May 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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'Teaching migration history in an age of border restriction'
Join us to discuss the future of this rich and growing field in a highly volatile political context

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Thursday 5 June, 6pm, London WC1E
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May 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Our roundtable brings together scholars, activists and archivists to think about the way people navigate bureaucracies and paperwork to shape their world.
19 May, Changing the Record, London WC1
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May 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Changing the Record.
How do those on the margins keep paper trails to protect their existence, then change their situation through it?
19 May, 6pm, WC1E
Book here www.ChangingTheRecord.eventbrite.co.uk
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April 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Changing the Record
The power of paperwork: how do those on the margins keep paper trails to protect their existence, then change their situation through it?
19 May, 6pm, London WC1E
Book here www.ChangingTheRecord.eventbrite.co.uk
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April 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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The end of the world? It’s nothing new for many inhabitants of the Global South.
'After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon', Munira Khayyat, London WC1B
Join us on 13 May
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April 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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When life is the intentional target of the settler-colonial war machine, life in all of its forms becomes resistance.

'After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon', Munira Khayyat
13 May, London

Book here (AftertheEndoftheWorld.eventbrite.co.uk)
April 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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British History from the Middle of Nowhere
Julia Laite (Birkbeck UoL)
1 May 2025, 6.00pm Venue: Queen Mary, University of London, E1
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March 20, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Join us for
African Pharmakon: The Asylum as Shrine from Slavery to the Return, with Nana Osei Quarshie
3 April, Birkbeck, Bloomsbury, 6.00pm
Book here QuarshieLecture.eventbrite.co.uk
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March 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Come and hear ‘Decolonization’s Discontents: Unfinished Revolutions in the Age of Independence’, from Dr Elisabeth Leake
6 March 2025, London E1
Book here DecolonizationsDiscontents.eventbrite.co.uk
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Poster for the ICFTU-run Asian Trade Union College in Calcutta. International Institute for Social History, ICFTU Archives, BG E4/376
February 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture
Andreas Malm traces intersecting paths of subaltern wilderness politics & early climate science in the Swedish movement of working-class literature
The Coal in Violence 7 Nov, London
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October 15, 2024 at 9:54 AM
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Join us to celebrate the launch of 'Workshop of the World: Essays in people’s history', Raphael Samuel (ed John Merrick) 12 February 6.00pm, London WC1E 7JL. Followed by a reception.
The book will be discussed by Sally Alexander and John Merrick. Register here (LaunchOfWorkshop.eventbrite.co.uk)
January 25, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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On Direct Action
14-15 Feb
London
Two days of creative performances, workshops, film screenings and talks bring organisers, activists, scholars and artists together to consider the past, present and possible futures of direct action.
Info www.eventbrite.com/e/on-direct-action-tickets-807868034037
January 25, 2024 at 11:10 AM
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This Was Forever and In Our Hands: film screening and roundtable discussion, 19/1, 6.00pm
Birkbeck Cinema, WC1H 0PD
Free. Book here www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=40730
Two short films about collective farming projects, urban development, and the consequences of the modern economy.
Allotment in London E15
January 8, 2024 at 10:47 AM
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The Radical 1970s
Saturday 9 December from 9.00am
London WC1E
Free, no need to book.
Information here culturepowerpolitics.org/the-radical-1970s/
December 6, 2023 at 5:28 PM
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Screening this Friday: film Entroterra reconstructs the recent processes of depopulation in distinct locations, exploring the abandonment and emptying of mountain regions in Italy.
8th December, 6.00pm
Free film screening. Birkbeck, London WC1H
Booking www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=40230
December 4, 2023 at 11:55 AM
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Join us on 8 Dec: free screening of Entroterra, a film that explores the abandonment and emptying of mountain regions in Italy.
Entroterra: memorie e desideri delle montagne minori/ Hinterlands: memories and desires for the minor mountains.
Book here www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=40230
November 29, 2023 at 10:07 AM