Events

Class Matters: the working class in contemporary Britain

Tuesday 10 March 2015 6.30pm to 8.00pm

Hosted by Ralph Miliband Programme

Hong Kong Theatre,

Speaker

Dr Selina Todd

Chair

Dr Robin Archer

Drawing on the testimonies of hundreds of people, Dr Todd refutes the claim that class is dead and exposes some of the myths that animate contemporary politics.

Selina Todd (@selina_todd) is History Fellow and Vice Principal of St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford.

Robin Archer is the Director of the Postgraduate Programme in Political Sociology at LSE.

The Ralph Miliband Programme (@rmilibandlse) is one of LSE's most prestigious lecture series and seeks to advance Ralph Miliband's spirit of free social inquiry.

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