BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN URL:https://lectures.london/london-school-of-economics/remembering-the-gen eral-strike-1926/calender.ics NAME:Lectures London X-WR-CALNAME:Lectures London TIMEZONE-ID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4f34fe35-9f81-4a35-9a9c-0ef2d60fac94 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260517T065519 DTSTART:20260521T150000 DTEND:20260521T170000 SUMMARY:Remembering the General Strike 1926 LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person public event (LSE Library) DESCRIPTION:Thursday 21 May 2026 4pm - 6pmSpeakerChristine Coates MA PhD ( hon.causa)ChairCléo Chassonnery-ZaïgoucheVisit our archives related to t he General Strike 1926 and hear a talk by Chris CoatesMuseums\, libraries and community groups across the UK are marking the centenary of the 1926 G eneral Strike.Join us to see the materials in the LSE Library collection a nd a talk by the former Librarian of the Trades Union Congress\, Chris Coa tes.Chris will discuss the factors leading up to the Strike\, its effectiv eness\, and its impact on working people.She has made a case study of the situation in North-West London\, and hopes to spark conversation with atte ndees about what happened during the General Strike in their local areas.M eet our speaker and chairChristine Coates MA PhD (hon.causa)Christine Coat es worked as Librarian of the Trades Union Congress for 46 years\, initial ly in the TUC Headquarters in Congress House and from 1996 to 2014 at Lond on Metropolitan University. In 2015\, the University conferred on her the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Honoris Causa.She has been a member and hel d office in various international\, national\, and specialist committees i n the fields of librarianship and social history\, including being a membe r of the British Library Advisory Council 1979-1999\, and has had several articles published\, mainly in relation to her specialist subject\, labour history.She has managed a large number of library and information project s\, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund\, the British Library\, and other public bodies\, including cataloguing\, conservation\, oral history\, digi tisation\, and websites.She has been an active trade unionist and involved in several community projects over the last 50 years. Post-retirement\, s he helps to manage a Community Library in North West London and maintains her interest and research into labour history.Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche Cleo's research focuses on how economists categorise inequalities\, distin guishing between legitimate differences and unjust discrimination. She exp lores how this distinction has evolved since the late 19th century in the history of economics. She is also interested in the intertwined nature of epistemic\, political\, and ethical values\, particularly how the concept of value-free knowledge is strategically used in court and in policy.Cleo is currently writing on the history of gender and racial discrimination in the United States (1940-2000)\; the history of equal pay in the United Ki ngdom (1870-1970)\, and on the history of labour economics (since the 1970 s).Prior to joining the LSE\, Cleo worked at the University of Bologna\, t he University of Cambridge\, and the University of Lausanne. She obtained her PhD from the University Paris 1- Panthéon-Sorbonne.Further informatio nAbout us The British Library of Political and Economic Science\, known as LSELibrary\, was founded in 1896\, a year after the London School of Econ omics and Political Science. 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