Seminars and events
Raymond Williams and Robert Tressell in Hastings
celebrating 50 years of The Long Revolution and the centenary of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
2011 marks the centenary of the death of Robert Tressell and 50 years since the publication of Raymond Williams’ The Long Revolution. The University of Brighton in Hastings is pleased to announce a one day conference on Tuesday 20 September 2011 to celebrate the contribution of Williams and Tressell to literary and cultural studies, communications and social and political theory.
The conference will also address their relationship to Hastings, a town in which both spent a key part of their working lives. The conference seeks to create a multi-disciplinary forum in which academics, researchers, trade unionists and local historians can explore the impact and legacy of the two men on contemporary research, practice and activists.