10.00-10.10 Zoom room opens

10.10-10.15 Welcome & housekeeping

10.15 - 11.15 Keynote

• Professor Alistair Black:  'Power + Resistance = Negotiation:   A Functional Equation for the History of Libraries?'

11.15-11.30 Break

11.30-13.00 Panel 1

• Daisy Stafford : 'Access for all: Tensions Between Reform, Recreation, and Exclusion in the History of Public Libraries, 1850-2021.'
• Dr Colin Higgins: 'The Revolutionary in Disguise: Lenin and Mao as Library Workers.'
• Victoria Stevens: 'Knowledge is Power: A Case Study of the Rise and Fall of a Kent County House Library in its Wider Social Context.'

13.00-13.45 Lunch & (Optional) Networking

13.45-15.15 Panel 2

• Dr Max Skjönsberg: ' Reading Politics in Eighteenth-Century Subscription Libraries.'
• Professor Mark Towsey: 'Subscription Libraries, Empire, and the Wider World: Participation and Resistance.'
• Dr Sophie Jones: 'Social Libraries and the Formation of Political Loyalties during the American Revolution.'

15.15-15.25 Wrapping up

Tickets cost £5 for CILIP Library and Information History Group members and £10 for non-members.