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Thanks to all who joined us last night to celebrate 50th anniversary of Jim Callaghan's premiership. Fascinating insights from Michael Cockerell, Peter Kellner, Baronesses Liddell, Hayter & Jay; Political Secretary Tom McNally & speechwriter Roger Carroll & GMB's Lord Whitty
ALT Pictured left-right: Lord Callaghan's daughter Baroness Jay; Labour History Group Chair Greg Rosen; (back to camera) former NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson; acclaimed political documentary-maker Michael Cockerell; Callaghan's Fabian Society Gen Sec and event chair Baroness Hayter; Callaghan biographer and pollster Peter Kellner; former Cabinet minister & Callaghan's Scottish Labour Party Gen Sec Baroness Liddell; Callaghan's Political Secretary Lord McNally. Strand Group chief Prof Jon Davis OBE is behind
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Need to cool down? 🌡️
In The People's Pools, a recent Fabian pamphlet, @GR1900 set out how Labour can revive the lido.
Read coverage in the Guardian to find out more👇
theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
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Channelling the 1937 #lidolandslide (almost) 90 years on: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
#heatwaveLabour 90 years since Labour strategists planned victorious "Lido Landslide" 1937 London election campaign, pledging London would be "city of Lidos" #topicallessonsfromhistory #lostlidos
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How can Labour revive the lido? 🏊
In the 1930s, the Labour-led lido programme showed that municipal socialism could create popular infrastructure and political credibility.
After a sweltering week, it’s time to renew that legacy.
In The People’s Pools, @GR1900 sets out how to fund and deliver new and restored lidos.
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With Hector McNeil House gone and Hector McNeil swimming pool pulled down, we now have no civic spaces commemorating Hector McNeil.
McNeil is best remembered for brining IBM to Greenock, I’m trying to get cairn built commemorating him overlooking IBM & Gareloch where he came from
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Thats a wonderful piece...you are spot on...and the central role of #lido in #passporttopimlico reflected extent to which Herbert Morrison's 1930s "city of lidos" vision, which he took into 1945 govt, channelled popular enthusiasm for what practical municipal socialism could be
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Hector McNeil was hugely admired - Attlee's Sec of State for Scotland aged barely 40, then died shockingly young, barely 45. Dick Mabon who succeeded McNeil at the by-election on his death in 1955 told me that had McNeil lived that he was likely Labour leader & future PM
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another wee link between Inverclyde and Morrison, he endorsed McNeil in this local election leaflet which I actually found in the Gourock council house I live in, built in 1950, the house (and leaflet) belonged to my grandfather. We no longer believe we can achieve such greatness
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#heatwaveLabour 90 years since Labour strategists planned victorious "Lido Landslide" 1937 London election campaign, pledging London would be "city of Lidos" #topicallessonsfromhistory #lostlidos
Roy Hattersley. Labour giant, & friend to the Labour History Group. His contribution to our panel alongside fellow Callaghan Cabinet member Bill Rodgers to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Hugh Gaitskell was really special. He will be missed. But never forgotten.
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Sad news.
I’ll always remember our many chats on Harold Wilson & Labour history.
Insightful, driven by a burning sense of injustice and always kind, Roy was a remarkable politician and writer who served the Labour Party and the country with distinction.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
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I’m thinking of the late Roy Hattersley and his family today.
He was always such interesting, engaging company.
Speaking to him together with Neil Kinnock, to whom he was such a loyal and effective Deputy Leader, was an evening to remember.
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Roy Hattersley reflects on the poverty in Sheffield in the 1950s that shaped his socialism - after spending the Summer as a milkman’s mate.
“It was my first confrontation with the idea of the underserving poor. I rejected it then and I reject it now”.
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Clearing out my grandparents flat this weekend and coming across these treasures - thank you cards from Denis Healey and Leeds MP Joe Dean - my grandfather made their suits. He was so proud of that.
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A wonderful evening of insight, reminiscence & revelation...including Lord Whitty's cunning plan that almost averted Winter of Discontent. And celebration of the Premiership of one of our LHG Patrons: James Callaghan
Thanks to all who joined us last night to celebrate 50th anniversary of Jim Callaghan's premiership. Fascinating insights from Michael Cockerell, Peter Kellner, Baronesses Liddell, Hayter & Jay; Political Secretary Tom McNally & speechwriter Roger Carroll & GMB's Lord Whitty
ALT Pictured left-right: Lord Callaghan's daughter Baroness Jay; Labour History Group Chair Greg Rosen; (back to camera) former NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson; acclaimed political documentary-maker Michael Cockerell; Callaghan's Fabian Society Gen Sec and event chair Baroness Hayter; Callaghan biographer and pollster Peter Kellner; former Cabinet minister & Callaghan's Scottish Labour Party Gen Sec Baroness Liddell; Callaghan's Political Secretary Lord McNally. Strand Group chief Prof Jon Davis OBE is behind
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🚨 Baroness Hayter begins the @LabourHistory event on Jim Callaghan's premiership.
ALT Jim Callaghan.
🚨 Very pleased to be able to attend the @LabourHistory event on James Callaghan's premiership.
🏅 With the reminder - did we mention it? - that no former Prime Minister in British history has (to date) intervened in Parliament as an ex-PM more than 'Sunny Jim'.
ALT The UK Parliament.
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🚨 Peter Kellner is the first speaker about Jim Callaghan at the @LabourHistory event. He talks about the roots of Callaghan's political career and some of the controversies of his time as a minister.
ALT Jim Callaghan.
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🚨 Next up at the @LabourHistory event on Jim Callaghan is Michael Cockerell, opens by referring to the full length documentary he made with Lord Callaghan in 1992, starting with Callaghan on his farm.
ALT Jim Callaghan.
🚨 Peter Kellner is the first speaker about Jim Callaghan at the @LabourHistory event. He talks about the roots of Callaghan's political career and some of the controversies of his time as a minister.
ALT Jim Callaghan.
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🚨 Baroness (Helen) Liddell is the next speaker at the @LabourHistory event on Jim Callaghan.
🚨 Next up at the @LabourHistory event on Jim Callaghan is Michael Cockerell, opens by referring to the full length documentary he made with Lord Callaghan in 1992, starting with Callaghan on his farm.
ALT Jim Callaghan.