Frances O’Grady, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, will give the inaugural Ken Coates Memorial Lecture at the University of Nottingham on Wednesday 3 June 2015 at 6.30pm, a few weeks after the General Election.

Ken Coates died on 27 June 2010, in his eightieth year. He was a prolific author whose work included the Penguin Classic, Poverty: The Forgotten Englishmen, about the St Ann’s district of Nottingham, co-authored with Richard Silburn.

The Ken Coates Memorial Lecture is sponsored by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation and hosted by the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, with support of the local University and College Union association (University of Nottingham), other trade unions, and Five Leaves Bookshop.

Admission: free, but please R.S.V.P. to tonysimpson@russfound.org