Inaugural Dorothy and E.P. Thompson Lecture in Worcester

 Worcester 2012 Dorothy and E.P. Thompson Lecture



Saturday 29 September

Time: Doors open at 1.00 p.m. Lecture starts at 1.30 p.m.
Venue: The Perdiswell Young Peoples’ Leisure Club, Droitwich Road, Worcester

Sheila Rowbotham will present the inaugural Dorothy and E.P. Thompson Lecture in Worcester entitled “Remembering Dorothy and Edward”

Dorothy and Edward Thompson for many years lived at Rushwick. After Edward’s death in 1993, Dorothy lived in Worcester city until her death in 2011. Both were reknowned historians and more. E.P.Thompson is possibly most well known for the seminal The Making of the English Working Class and
Dorothy Thompson for the groundbreaking The Chartists. Both were major figures in the national and international peace movements in the 1960s and the re-energised movements in the 1980s and 90s in CND and the newly-formed European Nuclear Disarmament. They provided leadership and a public face for the peace movement over decades, have left us with an impressive body of published work and supported and encouraged their students, friends and visitors from across the globe.

Sheila Rowbotham was a student, colleague and friend of the Thompsons. She is a Writer in Residence in the Eccles Centre for American Studies in the British Library and an Honorary Fellow at the Universities of Manchester and Bristol and a Fellow of the Royal Society. She helped to found the Women’s Liberation Movement in the early 1970s and has written many books on women’s and labour history.

Tickets: £3 each or £1 for low/non-waged.
Cheques to be payable to “D&EPT Lecture”.
For further information: D&EPT, 23 Shrubbery Road,
Drakes Broughton, Worcs WR10 2BA
dandeptlecture@talktalk.net
Financially supported by The Lipman-Miliband Trust