commemorations and anniversaries

[alanjjohnstone]

English Heritage's anniversaries for 2016:

Battle of Hastings (950 years) – 14 October 1066

Siege of Kenilworth (750 years) – June-December 1266

Birth of Mary Tudor (500 years) – 18 February 1516

Death of William Shakespeare (400 years) – 23 April 1616

Great Fire of London (350 years) – 2 September 1666

Birth of landscape architect Capability Brown (300 years) – summer 1716

The Somme Offensive (100 years) – 1 July 1916

England's World Cup win (50 years) – 30 July 1966

 

I believe the Dublin 1916 Easter Rising will be remembered by the Standard but what other historic anniversaries do members of the forum suggest should be commemorated by the Party for 2016 by special public meetings or featured in the Standard?

[alanjjohnstone]

May will be the 90th anniversry of the 1926 General Strike

[alanjjohnstone]

Oooops …totally forgot the really BIG one…the founding of our companion party the WSPUS, July the 7th 1916 Let's celebrate that with a really good special issue of the Socialist Standard 

[DJP]

FWIW. I'm working on something for the 75th anniversary of the start of the Spanish civil war.

[hallblithe]

We should not forget the 50th anniversary of Star Trek this September.

[DJP]

hallblithe wrote:

We should not forget the 50th anniversary of Star Trek this September.

I'm not that much of a fan, but isn't it only in the "Second Generation" that the space communism thing really comes out?

[hallblithe]

Well, we could wait until September  2017 for the 30th anniversary of the Next Generation.   I do not recall Kirk talking like this.

[Anonymous]

'Make it so'Not that I am much of a fan 

[jondwhite]

alanjjohnstone wrote:

Oooops …totally forgot the really BIG one…the founding of our companion party the WSPUS, July the 7th 1916 Let's celebrate that with a really good special issue of the Socialist Standard 

Or World Socialist Review?

[pgb]

DJP wrote:

FWIW. I'm working on something for the 75th anniversary of the start of the Spanish civil war.

You had better hurry, the 75th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War was in 2011.

[Anonymous]

pgb wrote:

DJP wrote:

FWIW. I'm working on something for the 75th anniversary of the start of the Spanish civil war.

You had better hurry, the 75th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War was in 2011.

Clearly DJP means the 80th anniversary…

[alanjjohnstone]

Of course, we also have Her Majesty, the Queen's 90th birthday in April…perhaps we could do a right royal republican edition of the Standard for the occasion

[rodmanlewis]

alanjjohnstone wrote:

Of course, we also have Her Majesty, the Queen's 90th birthday in April…perhaps we could do a right royal republican edition of the Standard for the occasion

…and congratulate her on a long and fruitless life?

[alanjjohnstone]

Apparently there will be something called  The Patron's Lunch will honour the Queen's lifetime dedication to service and mark her patronage of more than 600 charities and organisations….Its title is crying our for some group to do a "Peoples Lunch" in its vicinity and no doub there will be…Perhaps food served up from a food bank…Maybe we could  soup kitchen theme, dress up in rags and dish out bowls of soup and chunks of bread. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35318389

[ALB]

We've missed out this significant one for us: the 500th anniversary of the publication of Thomas More's Utopia:http://utopia.somersethouse.org.uk/

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