{"id":189,"date":"2025-09-08T16:06:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2025-09-08T16:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:11:11","slug":"talk-by-kaynan-hudson-on-poet-trade-unionist-and-socialist-tom-maguire-7-30pm-monday-15th-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/2025\/09\/08\/talk-by-kaynan-hudson-on-poet-trade-unionist-and-socialist-tom-maguire-7-30pm-monday-15th-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk By Kaynan Hudson On Poet, Trade Unionist And Socialist, Tom Maguire, 7.30pm Monday 15th September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">A recent graduate of Leeds University, Kaynan, like Tom Maguire, is an East Leeds working class socialist of Irish descent, who has made a particular study of the career of Tom Maguire. Kaynan will explore the development of Maguire&#8217;s trade union and political career, his role in the seamstresses&#8217; strike of 1869 and the successful gas workers&#8217; struggle of 1870 and his part in the formation of the forerunner of the modern day Labour Party. Points of interest to Kaynan include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How did a working class poet f&#8217;rom Leeds change British politics?<\/li>\n<li>What does a 19th Century socialist teach us about Labour organisation today?<\/li>\n<li>Why 30,000 workers took to Leeds streets in 1890<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"justify\">The talk will be in Room 3, Swarthmore Centre, Woodhouse Square, LS3 1AD <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/uct9VxBvcfWptZoJ8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Map<\/a> teas and coffees will be provided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Attendance of our public events are typically without charge, as is membership of the Society, However our work is financed solely by the contributions of our members and supporters. All donations are gratefully received.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Please follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/340485574979674\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook (Leeds Ford-Maguire Society)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">For further information: Tony Maguire 079503647612<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent graduate of Leeds University, Kaynan, like Tom Maguire, is an East Leeds working class socialist of Irish descent, who has made a particular study of the career of Tom Maguire. Kaynan will explore the development of Maguire&#8217;s trade union and political career, his role in the seamstresses&#8217; strike of 1869 and the successful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/2025\/09\/08\/talk-by-kaynan-hudson-on-poet-trade-unionist-and-socialist-tom-maguire-7-30pm-monday-15th-september\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Talk By Kaynan Hudson On Poet, Trade Unionist And Socialist, Tom Maguire, 7.30pm Monday 15th September&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}