Brexit and workers’ rights 1 October 2019 - 18:30 pm - 20:30 pm Keating Chambers, 15 Essex St, Temple, London WC2R 3AA Chaired by Sarah Veale Professor Michael Gold and Professor Simon Deakin talk on ‘What the UK's membership of the EU has entailed for workers’ rights and how the UK might achieve dynamic alignment of these rights after Brexit.’

History & Policy

Brexit and workers’ rights - Professor Simon Deakin

Brexit and workers’ rights - Professor Michael Gold

9 September 2019 - 18:00 pm - 19:30 pm Anatomy Museum, King's College London, 6th floor, King's Building, Strand, London WC2R 2LS Over the past twenty years, a growing number of countries have established national inquiries in relation to historic child abuse, encompassing investigations of abuse in residential institutions and foster-care, as well as abuse in the context of particular types of institution or specific child welfare programmes. Historical researchers have engaged with these inquiries in a range of different roles – as members of inquiry secretariats, consultants, expert witnesses and, in at least one case, as the director of a national inquiry (Prof Pirjo Markkola in Finland). This panel brings together speakers with a range of expertise across these different roles to explore what we can learn from a range of international examples about the relationship between historical research and child abuse enquiries. Amongst the questions to be explored in this session are: How important is historical knowledge for the setting of the remits and scope of inquiries? What are the challenges and limitations of using different kinds of historical material in child avuse inquiries? In what ways can inquiries succeed or fail as forms of public history in increasing public understanding of historic abuse? Speakers: Professor Pirjo Markkola (Tampere University and former director of the Finnish national child abuse inquiry) Professor Eoin O’Sullivan (Trinity College Dublin; his work with Mary Raftery on the history of abuse in Irish industrial schools led to the setting up of the Ryan Commission) Professor Johanna Sköld (Linköping University and former member of the secretariat for the Swedish Inquiry into Child Abuse and Neglect in Institutions and Foster Homes) Professor Shurlee Swain (Australian Catholic University and contributor of historical research to numerous abuse inquiries in Australia) Event organiser: Gordon Lynch is Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology at the University of Kent. He has undertaken a range of research and public history projects in relation to the history of UK child migration programmes, including a national museum exhibition at the V&A Museum of Childhood and the musical project, The Ballads of Child Migration. He has served as an expert witness for the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, and continues to serve in this capacity for the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.

Professor Shurlee Swain - How historians can assist in historic child abuse inquiries

Professor Pirjo Markkola - How historians can assist in historic child abuse inquiries

Professor Johanna Sköld - How historians can assist in historic child abuse inquiries

Professor Eoin O’Sullivan - How historians can assist in historic child abuse inquiries

Peter Ackers, co-editor, Alternatives to State-Socialism, Palgrave 2016. In Place of Strife (1969): Trade Union legal rights & responsibilities revisited 27 April 2019 - 11:00 am - 16:00 pm Modern Records Centre, Warwick University 50 years ago, the conflict between the Harold Wilson Labour Government & the trade unions over the Barbara Castle White Paper ‘In Place of Strife’ was one of the pivotal moments of post-war British Industrial Relations. It pitched voluntarist ideas of ‘free collective bargaining’ against ideas of economic planning & public policy concerns about strikes, inflation and restrictive practices. The white paper followed the 1968 Donovan Report & preceded Heath’s Conservative 1971 Industrial Relations Act. In response to Peter Dorey’s new book on In Place of Strife, this seminar has two parts. In the morning there is a historical reassessment of the political episode. In the afternoon, we consider the implications for current Labour Party policy on trade unions, as the Manifesto promises to ‘roll out sectoral bargaining’. The seminar is held at the Modern Records Centre, the largest UK trade union & industrial relations collection, which will be introduced to us.

Peter Ackers - In Place of Strife (1969)

Joe Dromey, author, Power to the People: How stronger unions can deliver economic justice, IPPR 2018 In Place of Strife (1969): Trade Union legal rights & responsibilities revisited 27 April 2019 - 11:00 am - 16:00 pm Modern Records Centre, Warwick University 50 years ago, the conflict between the Harold Wilson Labour Government & the trade unions over the Barbara Castle White Paper ‘In Place of Strife’ was one of the pivotal moments of post-war British Industrial Relations. It pitched voluntarist ideas of ‘free collective bargaining’ against ideas of economic planning & public policy concerns about strikes, inflation and restrictive practices. The white paper followed the 1968 Donovan Report & preceded Heath’s Conservative 1971 Industrial Relations Act. In response to Peter Dorey’s new book on In Place of Strife, this seminar has two parts. In the morning there is a historical reassessment of the political episode. In the afternoon, we consider the implications for current Labour Party policy on trade unions, as the Manifesto promises to ‘roll out sectoral bargaining’. The seminar is held at the Modern Records Centre, the largest UK trade union & industrial relations collection, which will be introduced to us.

Joe Dromey - In Place of Strife (1969)

Roger Jeary In Place of Strife (1969): Trade Union legal rights & responsibilities revisited 27 April 2019 - 11:00 am - 16:00 pm Modern Records Centre, Warwick University 50 years ago, the conflict between the Harold Wilson Labour Government & the trade unions over the Barbara Castle White Paper ‘In Place of Strife’ was one of the pivotal moments of post-war British Industrial Relations. It pitched voluntarist ideas of ‘free collective bargaining’ against ideas of economic planning & public policy concerns about strikes, inflation and restrictive practices. The white paper followed the 1968 Donovan Report & preceded Heath’s Conservative 1971 Industrial Relations Act. In response to Peter Dorey’s new book on In Place of Strife, this seminar has two parts. In the morning there is a historical reassessment of the political episode. In the afternoon, we consider the implications for current Labour Party policy on trade unions, as the Manifesto promises to ‘roll out sectoral bargaining’. The seminar is held at the Modern Records Centre, the largest UK trade union & industrial relations collection, which will be introduced to us.

Roger Jeary - In Place of Strife (1969)

David Lyddon, co- editor journal Historical Studies in Industrial Relations In Place of Strife (1969): Trade Union legal rights & responsibilities revisited 27 April 2019 - 11:00 am - 16:00 pm Modern Records Centre, Warwick University 50 years ago, the conflict between the Harold Wilson Labour Government & the trade unions over the Barbara Castle White Paper ‘In Place of Strife’ was one of the pivotal moments of post-war British Industrial Relations. It pitched voluntarist ideas of ‘free collective bargaining’ against ideas of economic planning & public policy concerns about strikes, inflation and restrictive practices. The white paper followed the 1968 Donovan Report & preceded Heath’s Conservative 1971 Industrial Relations Act. In response to Peter Dorey’s new book on In Place of Strife, this seminar has two parts. In the morning there is a historical reassessment of the political episode. In the afternoon, we consider the implications for current Labour Party policy on trade unions, as the Manifesto promises to ‘roll out sectoral bargaining’. The seminar is held at the Modern Records Centre, the largest UK trade union & industrial relations collection, which will be introduced to us.

David Lyddon - In Place of Strife (1969)

Peter Dorey, author Comrades in Conflict: Labour, the Trade Unions & In Place of Strife (1969), Manchester 2019 In Place of Strife (1969): Trade Union legal rights & responsibilities revisited 27 April 2019 - 11:00 am - 16:00 pm Modern Records Centre, Warwick University 50 years ago, the conflict between the Harold Wilson Labour Government & the trade unions over the Barbara Castle White Paper ‘In Place of Strife’ was one of the pivotal moments of post-war British Industrial Relations. It pitched voluntarist ideas of ‘free collective bargaining’ against ideas of economic planning & public policy concerns about strikes, inflation and restrictive practices. The white paper followed the 1968 Donovan Report & preceded Heath’s Conservative 1971 Industrial Relations Act. In response to Peter Dorey’s new book on In Place of Strife, this seminar has two parts. In the morning there is a historical reassessment of the political episode. In the afternoon, we consider the implications for current Labour Party policy on trade unions, as the Manifesto promises to ‘roll out sectoral bargaining’. The seminar is held at the Modern Records Centre, the largest UK trade union & industrial relations collection, which will be introduced to us.

Peter Dorey - In Place of Strife (1969)

Dr Andrew Blick (King’s College London and Director, History & Policy) Professor Simon Szreter (Cambridge and Managing Editor, History & Policy)

Welcome and Keynote - History & Policy: an international conference

Dane Kennedy (National History Center): Brexit and the Legacies of Empire Although Britain lost its empire some fifty years ago, this talk will argue that the legacies of its imperial past have helped shape the debate surrounding Brexit and Britain’s future. I intend to (1) note the historical forces that brought an end to Britain’s empire and led to its belated and ambivalent entry into the European Union, (2) point out how postcolonial demographics and politics within British society gave rise to sharply divergent interpretations of the nation’s imperial past, and (3) make the case that these interpretations have shaped arguments about Britain’s future, particularly for Brexit’s most vocal advocates, whose repeated evocations of the imperial past have served as proxies for their vision of a ‘global Britain’. Dane Kennedy is Director of the National History Center of the American Historical Association and the Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University. He is a historian of the British imperial world whose publications include The Imperial History Wars: Debating the British Empire (Bloomsbury, 2018), Decolonization: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2016), The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia (Harvard UP, 2013), and The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World (Harvard UP, 2005). As the NHC’s director, he oversees a congressional briefing program and other initiatives designed to bring historical perspectives to policy issues.

Dane Kennedy - Brexit and the legacies of empire

David Lowe (Australian Policy and History): Trump tumult and the Australian-American alliance in historical perspective The Trump phenomenon has caused many governments to think hard about the nature of their relationships with the United States. In the case of Australia, amidst the shock and confusion, it may even trigger the sort of questioning of the ANZUS Security Pact (1951) that historians have thus far been unable to stir. To date, ANZUS and the oft-recalled memory of 1 million American soldiers passing through Australia in the Second World War, have constituted mnemonic foundation stones for thinking about the intertwining of American and Australian security. But just as the numbers of US war veterans have rapidly dwindled, so too does ANZUS suddenly look fragile. While it would be rash to say recent events have opened up a new space for historians in public conversation – such has been the continuing bipartisanship on the virtues of the American alliance – they have invited greater reflection. I suggest that historical perspective has much to offer at this time. Through analysis of Australian foreign policy-making and Australian-US relations at different times since the creation of ANZUS, I venture that, far from a stable ‘insurance policy’, the security pact has often shifted ground for Australian leaders. This has produced both anxiety and opportunity. The imprecision in the Australian-US security relationship has encouraged Prime Ministers to narrate its importance in ways that strengthened their leadership. The arrival of Trump might break an executive hold on the story, and enable a healthier sense of historical perspective that informs policy thinking about next steps in the relationship. David Lowe is Chair in Contemporary History at Deakin University and co-founder of the Australian Policy and History Network. He has published widely on Australia in world affairs and modern international history, including the recent book with Carola Lentz, Remembering Independence (Routledge, 2018) and the edited book The Unfinished Atomic Bomb: Shadows and Reflections (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018) with Cassandra Atherton and Alyson Miller. He is currently working on three projects: histories of Australian overseas diplomatic posts; a history of Australia’s foreign aid program; and an international history of the Colombo Plan for aid to South and Southeast Asia.

David Lowe - Trump tumult and the Australian-American alliance in historical perspective

Klaus Neumann (Deakin University, Melbourne): Forced migration, policy making, and the uses and abuses of history Drawing on examples from Germany and Australia, I reflect on the role of historicized and remembered pasts in the recent so-called refugee crisis. I am particularly interested in why and how the events of 2012-2013 (in Australia) and 2015-2016 (in Europe) were interpreted as an unprecedented crisis, and how particular readings and memories of the past facilitated or hampered responses to that “crisis”. Klaus Neumann works for the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture on a project about local public and policy responses to refugees in Germany. He is also an honorary professor at Deakin University (Melbourne) and an adjunct research fellow at the Hannah Arendt Institute (Dresden). He has written numerous articles and books (most recently, the award-winning Across the Seas: Australia’s Response to Refugees, 2015), and contributes regularly to Inside Story and other non-academic fora.

Klaus Neumann - Forced migration, policy making, and the uses and abuses of history

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