The origins of the Clarion House at Newchurch, near Burnley, go way back to 1899 when a handful of ILP members rented their first Clarion House in Thorneyholme between Barley and Happy Valley.
On 24 July, a brilliantly sunny Sunday afternoon 112 years later, the Clarion House at Jinney Lane and its surrounding countryside looked and [...]
The ILP will make a special presentation to volunteers at Clarion House near Nelson on Saturday 24th July to mark nearly a century of association between the ramblers’ tea shop run by members of the Nelson ILP Land Society and the national ILP.
Members of the ILP’s national administrative council will present Clarion volunteers with a [...]
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Land and Freedom
A short, moving account of the Spanish Civil War. Focusing on events in Catalonia, it shows how even today, there is more to be remembered than the courage of the International Brigade.
ILP - Past & Present
A lively, frank and well-illustrated account of the ILP’s history from its origins in the 1890s, the Labour party’s development, and the rise and fall of the Labour left.