ONLINE AND ONSITE BOOK LAUNCH: The Selected Works of Clive Branson

We're very excited to host this event celebrating the work of artist, International Brigade volunteer, communist and MML founder, Clive Branson. Clive and his wife, Noreen, were instrumental in obtaining the building the library resides in and we still hold his personal papers, including some of his sketches, in our collections today.

The Selected Poems of Clive Branson brings together, for the first time, the best of his surviving poetry. Passionate and committed, it’s a first-hand account of the most violent years of the twentieth-century – Britain in the Slump, Spain during the civil-war, Fascist prisons, the London Blitz, the cultural shock of India and its poverty, the war against Japan – recorded with a painterly eye and a communist faith in the power of the people.

7pm, Thursday 28th September

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ONLINE AND ONSITE PANEL: The 1973 Shrewsbury Trial Conspiracy

On the 50th anniversary of the Shrewsbury ‘conspiracy’ trial Eileen Turnbull and Terry Renshaw will detail the conspiracy between the Tory government, building contractors and the police to frame and imprison 24 pickets for their participation in the building workers strike the previous year. The meeting will be chaired by John Hendy KC.

Eileen Turnbull is Researcher for the Shrewsbury 24 Campaign and author of A Very British Conspiracy: the Shrewsbury 24 and the Campaign for Justice published this year. A trade union lawyer, she received a doctorate for her research on the trial from the University of Liverpool in 2018. Terry Renshaw, a convicted Shrewsbury picket, is a member of the Campaign Committee.

7pm, Thursday 5th October

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