James Parker

Conferences/Symposiums

31st March 2015:

University of Exeter College of Humanities PGR Conference 2015

Paper presented: 'Trade union political funds and Labour party finance in the 1930s'.

24th March 2015:

Shaping the Labour Party Conference 2015, Bangor University

Paper presented: 'Trade unionists in the House: the sponsorship of Labour Members of Parliament in the 1930s'.

29th April 2014:

University of Exeter College of Humanities PGR Conference 2014

Paper presented: 'Kept men? Trade union MPs and the Parliamentary Labour party, 1931-40'. Queen's Building, University of Exeter.

27th March 2014:

Ex Historia Modern Politics and Policy Colloquium

Panellist: 'History, Politics and Policy: Unlikely Collaborators?' Queen's Building, University of Exeter.

18th July 2013:

Tolpuddle Radical History School 2013: the 1930s

Weekend history school at Tolpuddle, Dorset.

1st May 2013:

University of Exeter College of Humanities PGR Conference 2013

Paper presented: ''Not something we can afford to ignore': the Mosley-Marchbank case and Labour responses to British fascism, 1933-36.' Queen's Building, University of Exeter.

13th April 2013:

50 years of EP Thompson’s 'The Making of the English Working Class'. People's History Museum/Working Class Movement Library

Day conference at the People's History Museum, Manchester.

21st March 2013:

Ex Historia Symposium

Paper presented: 'The battle of Hastings? Trade unions, Labour parliamentary candidates and constituency finance, c.1931-45.' Queen's Building, University of Exeter.

8th March 2013:

Unions21 20th Anniversary Conference: Strong Unions Turning the Tide

Day conference at TUC Congress House, London.

2nd March 2013:

Critical Labour Studies 9th Symposium 2013

Weekend symposium at Ruskin College, Oxford.

1st May 2012:

University of Exeter College of Humanities PGR Conference 2012

Paper presented: 'The Socialist League and the image of the intellectual in the 1930s Labour party.' Peter Chalk Centre, University of Exeter.