Arthur Snell, historian and expert on the interaction between geopolitics and climate change will talk about his book Elemental. He shows how the climate crisis is reshaping our world transforming power, economies and everyday life, in terms of Earth, Air, Fire and Water. This is just one of many good events in this year’s Off The Shelf – Festival of…

An all-day event over the Pennines in Manchester. It celebrates The Lucas Plan which was a huge proposal by workers, activists, students and academics for socially useful production. Fifty years ago, faced with threats to their jobs, workers at the Lucas Aerospace arms company launched their pioneering Alternative Workers Plan, a visionary, positive plan that challenged economic orthodoxy. They proposed…