A Somerset Socialist History Conference will be held on Saturday 15th September 2018 at the GWRSA/Railway Club, Wellington Rd, Bridgwater TA6 5HA. The event has been organised by Bridgwater Trades Union Council and is free of charge.
Bridgwater TUC Secretary and local historian Dave Chapple says “Please let us know if you are coming! To book places contact me 07707 869 144 or davechapple@btinternet.com”
Programme
9.30am: Registration
10am: Welcome from Vicki Nash, NEU, President, Bridgwater Trades Union Council
10.10am: Somerset radicals: Nigel Costley, Secretary, SW TUC
11am: The Black experience: a. Living in Somerset; Judith Desbonne; b. Dave Chapple, CWU: “When Jim Crow met John Bull”: racism in Somerset in WW2
11.40am: Somerset farm workers: Barry Leathwoood, Unite the Union
12.20pm: Bath City socialists: John Bamfylde, Unite and Bath TUC
1pm: Buffet Lunch (Free of charge)
Exhibition of trade union and socialist posters from the Somerset Socialist Library
2pm: The 1990 Somerset Poll Tax Rebellion: Glen Burrows, RMT, Ken Trunks, Bridgwater
2.40pm: “Messing about on the river”: The pilots of Pill: Mike Richardson, Bristol
3.20pm: Somerset & the NUM strike of 1984/5: Adam Salkeld, Chris Dennett and Viv Willis
4pm Film: “Pride”
Introduced by Dai Donovan, BECTU, ex-South Wales NUM, who in 1984 was the
Dulais Valley Support Group link with London Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners
Chair: Adam Salkeld, Clevedon NUM Support Group 1984/5