The 1970s
Life Before Thatcher
Sunday 14th November – Tuesday 7th December 2010
Programme
Date | Time | Title | Details | Venue |
Sun. 14th Nov. | 7:30pm | "Make Them Grovel": The 1976 West Indies Cricket Tour | A talk and a film. | Bristol Wet Indies |
Tue. 16th Nov. | 7:30pm | From The Ford Workers’ Group to Made In Dagenham | Carlos Guarita - founder member of the FWG |
The Hatchet |
Wed. 17th Nov. | 7:00pm | The Asian Youth Movement | Anandi Ramamurthy - Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies, Uni. of Central Lancashire. | Easton Community Centre |
Mon. 22nd Nov. | 7:30pm | Grunwick: The End Of An Era? | Chris Thomas - Film director introduces 2 film. | Hamilton House |
Tue. 23rd Nov. | 7:30pm | Spies, Lies And The Coup: State Repression In The 70s |
Larry O’Hara - Larry O’Hara a look at the tactics and strategies of the secret state. | The Hatchet |
Thu. 25th Nov. | 8:00pm | Cry Freedom Concert | A concert celebrating St. Wulfstan, Thomas Clarkson and the Seven Stars Pub. | St. Thomas |
Sat. 27th Nov. | 2:00pm | Dave Douglas - Pitman and NUM member. Mike Richardson - Print worker from bristol. |
Hamilton House | |
Sat. 27th Nov. | 8:00pm | Glam-Punk Disco Inferno | 70s music with sets from DJ Pretty Boy and DJ Dabble. | The Plough |
Mon. 29th Nov. | 7:30pm | The Anti-Vietnam War Movement | Mike Levine - Eyewitness account of the student revolt. Roger - Resistance to the war amongst the U.S. armed forces. |
The Hatchet |
Thu. 2nd Dec. |
7:30pm | Punk And The Pistols | Paul Tickell - Introducing his film about Punk. | Hamilton House |
Sat. 4th Dec. |
4:00pm | From Recruitment To Dialogue: How Does The Radical Left Relate To Workers? |
Sheila Cohen - Trade unionist actavist and academic. Marco - London Commune Group |
Hamilton House |
Sun. 5th Dec. |
1:00pm | Italy In The 1970s: Bodies In The Street, A Tale Of A Country Like Ours |
Marco - The effect of ‘Autonomia’ on the German Workers movement in the 1970s. Keiron Farrow - Italian radicalism. |
Hamilton House |
Tue. 7th Dec. |
7:30pm | "Can't Do Nothin' If You Ain't Bad"': The League Of Revolutionary Black Workers | Keiron Farrow - With the film League Finally Got the News. | Hamilton House |
Venues:Hamilton House - 80 Stokes Croft, BS1 3QY. |
Event Guide
- Download the PDF programme of events (2MB Adobe Acrobat File)
Posters
- Download a hi-resolution 70s black & white poster (275KB JPEG file)
- Download a hi-resolution Cry Feedom Concert colour poster (1.5MB JPEG file)
- Download a hi-resolution Glam-Punk Disco Inferno black & white poster (440KB file)