Luddite Memorial Lecture
Tue, 07 Jan 2014 14:58:00 GMT
The University’s history department and the Huddersfield Local History Society have joined forces to commemorate the town's radical heritage with an annual Luddite Memorial Lecture, inaugurated on Thursday 16 January (7.30pm).
Historian Dr Matthew Roberts will deliver a lecture entitled “Luddism through the Chartist Looking Glass: Shirley and the Modernisation of Popular Protest”.
The lecture will be dedicated to Lesley Kipling, the leading Huddersfield historian who died last year. The publication of a new edition of the classic work on Huddersfield Luddism and its background, Liberty or Death, written by Lesley and her co-author Alan Brooke, was the Local History Society's main contribution to the Luddite bicentenary.
The Luddite Memorial Lecture will take place on Thursday 16 January at 7.30 pm, Canalside East (CEG/28), with refreshments available from 7pm.
All are welcome but you are advice to book a place by e-mailing huddshistorysecretary@gmail.com or phoning 01484 540309.
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