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Listen back to QUB conference on Cross Currents in British and Irish Working Class Life

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on May 22, 2015, 6:33 pm | Readers 525

A research group from QUB’s Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities (ICRH) hosted a conference today to look at Cross Currents in British and Irish Working Class Life. Alongside the talks were songs, films and plenty of debate. All the presentations and panels are now online … and you can look back at images, quotes and photos in tweets from the conference that were tagged with the #WorkingClassLife hashtag. Graham Walker opened the conference. Sophie Long introduced the opening …

In July 1981 people were rioting in Toxteth, Liverpool … can we learn, or do better?

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on July 15, 2011, 9:20 pm | Readers 144

Doing the dishes and listening to a Radio 4 podcast of this week’s Thinking Allowed, I heard a discussion about the riots in Liverpool more than 30 years on. July 1981 was the first time the UK police used CS gas outside Northern Ireland. Wikipedia sums up the scale of the rioting that lasted nine days: one person died after being struck by a police vehicle trying to clear crowds, 468 police officers were injured, 500 people were arrested, and …