Events

Len Holden - A Local Perpective   All welcome - admission free . Tea & biscuits. Donations welcome.

Dead End Street a film written and directed by Kirti Joshi   This film is based on Kirti's earlier play and the plot revolves around drug addiction, mental health, homelessness and denial in Leicester. Kirti will introduce the film followed by Questions and Answers.    The follow up 'Heartache Avenue' will be released this summer.   All welcome - admission free . Donations welcome.

Colin Hyde  This talk shows that Leicester’s Victorian terraced housing is not all the same; it has a wide variety of design and decoration. In the last quarter of the 19 th century brick and terracotta companies produced a huge variety of decoration that could be added to the smallest houses. Leicester’s builders used a lot of this decoration. Along with the influence of changing fashion and design, this has left a fascinating legacy that we can enjoy today. Colin Hyde manages the East Midlands Oral History Archive. He also has a passion for photographing Leicester’s buildings and streets   All welcome - admission free . ...

Elbit - Leicester Palestine Action   Gaza Activists from Palestine Action have been mounting action at UAV Tactical Systems (U-TacS) in Meridian East Business Park in Leicester. The factory is owned by Israeli-owned arms manufacturer Elbit Systems. We will have a speaker to talk about what has been happening in Leicester.   Palestine Action was founded on 30 July 2020 when activists broke into and spray-painted the interior of Elbit Systems' UK headquarters in London. Palestine Action is a pro-Palestinian protest network that uses direct action tactics to shut down and disrupt multinational arms dealers. In particular, the group targets UK-based operations that provide weapons used against the Palestinian people. Palestine Action use civil direct action methods that have resulted in its members being arrested. Their methods include protest, occupat...

Please note the change of meeting place  (by about 200 yards).    Meet at University Road entrance next to the Chaplaincy Centre University Road, Leicester, England LE1 7RH Ned Newitt: Welford Road Cemetery Tour & Picnic   Ned Newitt will conduct a tour of the graves of local Jacobins, Chartists, Radicals, & Secularists. Ned will provide details of their lives and there will be a picnic at the end. (weather permitting) - Bring some food to share. An umbrella and walking shoes are suggested.   All welcome. Please advise by email to  welford@lsec.org.uk if you intend joining the tour. Photo by NotFromUtrecht - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9491637

  This is the first showing in Leicester of this original 72-minute documentary. It features murder, Cold War conspiracies, Black Power, the end of the Empire, and shows how that connects to the policing, surveillance practices, and social movements of today.  

Indian Troops in WW1 Trenches Bill Leigh   After the outbreak of the Great War, 100,000 men and 7,000 horses were shipped the 10,000 km from Mumbai to Marseilles. Many of these men and horses died in France and this talk was last given there in the coastal resort of Hardelot, where some of those men are buried.   Bill Leigh was formerly an academic in Britain, West Africa and the Caribbean, then a secondary school teacher for the European Union in the Netherlands, Italy, Britain and Brussels. Having published research in theoretical physics and fiction for children, after retirement from the British School in Warsaw he took a degree in History, writing a dissertation on Truth in History and High-Energy Physics.   All welcome - admission free . Tea & biscuits. Donations welcome. ...