The next workshop, 'Protest, Memory and Public History' took place on Saturday 11 February 2012, at the St. Matthias Campus of the University of the West of England, Bristol.

New! James Baker has written a detailed review of the event in his blog http://cradledincaricature.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/prohist-2/

Programme

10.00: Registration and coffee

10.30 Welcome, overview and opening discussion:

Steve Poole (UWE): The Remembered, the Overlooked and the Discomforting in British Protest History

11.30 Panel Discussion: Heritage and Rural Protest:

Nigel Costley (General Secretary, SW TUC): Why Tolpuddle? The Commemoration of Trades Union History

Carl Griffin (Queens University, Belfast): Community Memories of Protest History in the English Countryside: Forgetting, Un-forgetting and the Politics of 'Instant History'.

Iain Robertson (University of Gloucestershire): Memorialising Illegality: Commemorating Land Disturbances in the Outer Hebrides

1.00: Lunch

2.15 Panel discussion: Museums and Protest Heritage

Catherine O'Donnell (Learning Officer, Peoples History Museum, Manchester): There have always been ideas worth fighting for: bringing the history of protest to life at the Peoples History Museum.

Andy King (Bristol Museums Service): Commemorating Protest at Bristol's M Shed: The 1831 Reform Riots and Beyond.

Les James (Chartist Project, University of Wales): Remembering the Chartists in Newport and South Wales.

Ryan Hanley (Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull): Commemorating Abolitionism

3.45pm General discussion and future planning

4.30pm Close

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