Not just Orwell

Chris Hall will be talking about his book Not just Orwell and will be bringing to life the experiences of those British and Irish volunteers who fought alongside George Orwell in the Independent Labour Contingent in the Spanish Civil War.

Peoples History Museum,
Spinningfields,
Manchester.
M3 3 ER
Tel: 0161 838 9190
[url]http://www.phm.org.uk[/url]
Date: Saturday May 8th
Time; 2-3PM.

Red Strains: Music and Communism

Red Strains: Music and Communism outside the Communist Bloc after 1945
The British Academy, London
Thursday 13 January – Saturday 15 January 2011

Proposals are invited for this conference, to be held in January 2011 at the British Academy in London.

The relationship between state communism and music behind the Iron Curtain has been the subject of much scholarly interest. The importance of communism for musicians outside the communist bloc, by contrast, has received little sustained attention.

This conference aims to examine: