HEADLINES: Key events

 

JANUARY 

 

• Meeting with Winchester lawyers regarding their participation in Bicentenary events

• Meeting with Music and Speech ‘Creatives’ to discus future collaboration
   

FEBRUARY
 

• SWING RIOTS PRESENTATION to local history and community groups in HAVANT

• Meeting with Winchester City Council Arts Officer

• Meeting at Winchester School of Art re. future co-operation

• SWING RIOTS PRESENTATION to ALRESFORD Local History Society

• Meeting with DROXFORD Community Group
   

MARCH

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• Meeting with Chair, CHESIL Theatre regarding co-operation over Dramatic Re-enactment of Grand Assize

• Meeting with Southampton University regarding future partnership

• SWING RIOTS PRESENTATION to ANDOVER History and Archaeological Society

• Meeting to agree collaboration with the Hampshire Genealogical Society to research the families of all participants in the 1830 Grand Assize.  The Captain Swing Bicentenary to be represented at HGS Conference in July  

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CURRENT ACTIVITIES

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• Plans proceeding for a CAPTAIN SWING LITERARY event in St. Mary’s on Saturday June 22 featuring the long poem Micheldever by J.R Ackerley in conjunction with Arthur Wood and readings of the Anti-Pastoral poets and William Cobbett by Professor Christopher Mulvey and Nigel Bradshaw

• Programmes being developed for two sessions within the Hampshire  Heritage Open Days in September (7th and 14th)

• Bicentenary Committee now established (first meeting April 2) consisting of Professor Bill Lucas (CHAIR, English Project) , Edward Fennell (Project Co-Ordinator), Dr. Helen Paul (Talks and lectures), Professor Christopher Mulvey (Language of the Captain Swing era), Nicolas Lodge (Website), June Kershaw (Communities Liaison), Steve Marper (Genealogy and Australian Liaison).

• A number of key roles - especially in relation to social media, promotion and fund-raising - remain to be filled.

• Work is now advanced on the new website and it is hoped that it will be launched before the end of the next quarter

• Negotiations with Jill Chambers over digitisation of Hampshire Machine Breakers have been successfully concluded and it is hoped that it will appear on the website by the end of this year.

• A number of individuals are now pursuing research in Captain SWING related themes and activities which will mature in due course.

• Work is now developing on strong links with the first FIVE SWING communities 
  
  LOOKING AHEAD TO THE END OF THIS YEAR FOR
   

• Appearance/speak at Hampshire Local Authorities Conference (October 2024)

• Extension of series of standard lectures/panel sessions ‘What were the Captain Swing Riots and why do they matter?’ to be available county-wide through local history/community organisations etc.

• First in annual series of ENGLISH PROJECT Swing-themed lectures