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<br><br><div>Dear All, </div><div><br></div><div>I am delighted to be able to announce that this year's Social Science Centre, Lincoln, Public Lecture will be given by Prof Alastair Bonnett, Professor of Geography at Newcastle Universityhttp://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/alastair.bonnett</div><div><br></div><div>The lecture will take place on 27th of March, at the Collection in Lincoln from 7-9 pm : http://www.thecollectionmuseum.com/<br><br></div><div>I look forward to seeing you all there. Please forward onto your networks and others who might be interested.<br><br></div><div>Radical Pasts: Contested Futures<br><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Progressive politics has often defined </span>itself against the past. To be ‘forward looking’ has been cast as </div><div>noble and muscular but being ‘backward looking’ seen as ‘misty eyed’ and feeble. Today<br>these attitudes are being questioned. A new and more creative approach to the<br>past seems necessary. This talk looks at the what the story of Thomas Spence<br>(1750-1814), a now forgotten but once famous figure in radical history, has to<br>tell us about the changing role of the past in radicalism. It is a story that<br>also opens up wider questions, such as 'why is 'critique' so central to<br>contemporary radicalism?' and 'does radicalism need intellectuals?'.<br><br></div><div>Best wishes,<br><br></div><div>Mike<br> <br></div> </div></body>
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