HEADLINES: Key events Mid September - Mid December

 

SEPTEMBER

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• Launch event and taster performance as part of Winchester Heritage Open Days
   

NOVEMBER

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• Panel Session: The Captain Swing riots of 1830: Revolution and revolutionary language - The ARC, Winchester
   

December

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• Presentation to the Upper Clatford Local History Group

• Presentation at Hampshire Record Office to WARG

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CURRENT ACTIVITIES

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A number of meetings have taken place with local history societies, performance groups and individuals to explore possible developments and partnerships.

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Those which are currently on-going include:

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• Partnership with University of Winchester’s Faculty of Law, Crime and Justice to develop an annual HISTORY OF LAW Lecture focused on Criminal Justice in 1820-1830

• Partnership with !nVerse, music and voice group, to develop collaborative shows with local community groups to tell the SWING story

• Development of a team of speakers to present a standard/off-the-shelf account of the SWING Riots in Hampshire

• Development of a show based on the long poem Micheldever by J.R Ackerley in conjunction with Arthur Wood and Professor Christopher Mulvey initially in St. Mary’s,Micheldever but then to travel

• Development of a poetry and readings programme ‘Verse and Prose of the Captain Swing Era’ with Arthur Wood and Professor Christopher Mulvey

• Identification of GUEST SPEAKER for the first Annual Captain Swing Historical lecture

• Proposals for the Wellington Congress 2025 at the University of Southampton
  Wellington Congress 2025 Call for Papers | Special Collections | University of Southampton

• Initial work on the new SWING website within the English Project’s revamped site

• Negotiations with Jill Chambers over digitisation of Hampshire Machine Breakers

• Exploration of possible funding for community drama (notably a SWING WOMEN show with 2Time Theatre) by University of Southampton and/or Arts Council
   

INVITATIONS to appear/speak at:
 

• Havant Local History Event (early February 2024)

• Hampshire Local Authorities Conference (October 2024)

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FRESH ACTIONS to be undertaken soon include:

 

• Solidification of organisational structure

• Creation of a formal Supporters’ Group

• Initial thinking about Grand Assize Re-enactment in 2030

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YEAR 1: 2024 - 2025 Targets

 

ANNOUNCEMENT SCHEDULED FOR APRIL 2024 of Inaugural 2024/25 programme

 

• Launch the new Captain Swing in Hampshire website as a focus for compilation of SWING story, promotion and recording of events etc.
   

• Develop partnership arrangements with FIVE SWING communities
   

• Launch 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
   

• First in series of annual LAW lectures with Swing-related theme
   

• First in annual series of GUEST LECTURES on SWING and its repercussions
   

• Take part in Winchester Heritage Open Days (HODs September 20240 with one spoken and one performance event
   

• Hold at least ONE music/word Swing event in a SWING village EF 13-12-23