The Annual Luddite Memorial Lecture 2017
Mon, 03 Apr 2017 10:00:00 BST
Huddersfield Local History Society and the University of Huddersfield History present the fourth in a series of annual lectures focusing on aspects of the history of radicalism in the Huddersfield district.
The lecture will take place on Wednesday 5 April at 7.30pm, in the Diamond Jubilee Lecture Theatre, Business School. This is a free event and everyone is welcome to attend.
The 2017 Luddite Memorial Lecture will be given by Dr Katrina Navickas, Reader in History at the University of Hertfordshire. Not only has Dr Navickas written about many different aspects of popular protest and social movements – she provided the keynote lecture for Huddersfield’s bi-centenary Luddite Commemoration in 2012 - but she has also been investigating how digital mapping can reflect and further her research. Dr Navickas grew up in Rochdale and her most recent book, Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1948, just out in paperback, focuses on events in West Yorkshire and Lancashire.
In her Huddersfield lecture Dr Navickas will be exploring the protest spaces of the West Riding and will show how the county’s distinct topography and spaces within its towns shaped the democratic movements of the early nineteenth century.
The lecture will be introduced by historian Professor Tim Thornton, the University’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor, who welcomes the way in which this annual lecture series is continuing to develop.
