Reflections on History Workshop 17

History Workshop 77 was held at Manchester Polytechnic during the second weekend of November (1983). Organised into a number of "strands" -Women's History; People's History; Trade Unionism; Health; Work; the Industrial Bourgeoisie and others -the conference covered an impressive amount of ground and a variety of topics. "The Clarion Movement," "Lancashire Weavers," "the Kinder Trespass," "Unemployed Struggles on Merseyside," "Women's and Children's Health," "Imperialism and Popular Culture," "Work and Leisure," "the Economic League," "Women and the Labour Movement." "Working-Class Culture in the 1930s," and the "American Working-Class History Project" (CCNY) constituted a selection of the topics under discussion. Excellently organised, the conference attracted hundreds of people and was generally held to have been a great success. Ample opportunities were afforded for debate, the making of new contacts and the sampling of Manchester's many fine brews! Certainly this speaker enjoyed the session on After Chartism -a somewhat lengthy talk followed by a fruitful and comradely discussion concerning the character of the working class in mid-Victorian Britain

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