On the 8th March the Traditional Britain Group will be hosting a half day event, titled 'Traditional Britain Seminars 2014' at a prestigious club in central London from 1pm until 6pm, followed by an evening social until late.

We are very excited about this great new feature in our annual calendar as it will be unlike any other conference you have attended before, political or otherwise.

The afternoon will consist of a number of themed discussion tracks, led by our invited 'track leaders' who will introduce the theme and lead the discussion. Unlike normal conferences this will be a great opportunity for individuals to discuss and debate key issues and themes in the alternative, traditionalist, conservative and radical political and cultural sphere.

We are aiming to have two to three tracks running an hour for the afternoon. Guests are free to wander between tracks if they feel the discussion or theme is not of interest to them, and are not obliged to attend any one track. Guests can sit quietly and listen to discussion - or contribute their thoughts, without judgement and free of politically correct constraints, to the group.

This format was tested on the evening of our Traditional Britain Conference back in October and was enjoyed greatly by all present. The relaxed and open structure allowed for exciting, informed and intriguing discussion in a friendly environment.

The afternoon will be of interest to a wide range of individuals concerned with politics, culture, religion and economics - including conservatives, traditionalists, libertarians, nationalists and radicals - and will be a good opportunity to learn, share and network.

After the Seminars we will head to a local venue for an evening social until late - a bar will be available.

If you would like to lead a discussion track please get in touch on info@traditionalbritain.org. Track leaders get a FREE ticket!

The social media hashtag for sharing photos and thoughts on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere during the conference will be #traditionalbritain.

Track Themes and Leaders (confirmed so far):


Track 1 - 'Reaction and Orthodoxy: Tory Intellectual Traditions 1714-1990' - Jonathan Paquette

Jonathan Mason Paquette currently studies Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews. Deeply fascinated by Rightist genealogies of thought, he is writing a dissertation on High Toryism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries. His interests also extend into metapolitics, Conservative Revolutionary works, the European New Right, Western Esotericism, Gothic and fantastical literature, oneiric cinema and sundry antiquarian delvings. Jonathan publishes his works in both academic and political journals. He is a devoted scholar, energetic teacher, emergent rightist intellectual and old New Englander.


Track 2 - 'Schools of Thought in the European Alternative Right' - John Morgan, Editor of Arktos

John is the Editor in Chief of Artkos. 'ARKTOS was officially launched to the public on 1 May 2010. Since that time, it has has published more than 50 titles in four languages and circulated them globally, both through their own Web site and through our distribution channels. Arktos has established itself as the principal publisher in English of the writings of the European “New Right” school of political thought.'


Track 3 - 'National Preference' - Sam Swerling

Sam Swerling was a solicitor who later became a senior Law Lecturer at the City University. He was an active member & officer of the Conservative Party for decades and stood for them in local council elections as well as for parliament (Stalybridge & Hyde Feb 1974 with 32% of the vote and Nottingham East Oct 1974 with 34%). From 1978-82 he sat on Westminster City Councillor for Marylebone. He as active in the old Monday Club and served on their Executive for 20 years and was sometime Club Chairman. He was also editor of "Monday World". He was later a member of the Western Goals Institute and was one of the founding members of the now dissolved (2008) Conservative Democratic Alliance. He is a firm supporter of the French Front National party.Well-known on political circuits, he has spoken at countless events and is the author of innumerable tracts.


Track 4 - 'Was Enoch Powell right?' - Professor John Kersey, a Vice President of the Traditional Britain Group

John first spoke to the Traditional Britain Group at our 2013 national conference, and soon after we approached him to become a Vice President - he enthusiastically accepted. Professor John Kersey is an interdisciplinary historian whose work spans the three principal areas of music, education and traditionalist Catholicism, in particular those movements that developed as a result of the First Vatican Council of 1870. The author of several books, he has also recorded over 100 CDs as a concert pianist, including the first recordings of several unfinished works by Beethoven. He is currently President of European-American University, which operates in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia and specializes in bespoke educational solutions for high achievers. His professional work is combined with voluntary service within the Church, in which he is ordained and has responsibility for a Traditional Catholic community. John is the Director of Cultural Affairs for the Libertarian Alliance, for whom he also blogs.


Track 5 - ‘Human Dignity’ – Christopher Gillibrand, a Vice President of the Traditional Britain Group

Christopher Gillibrand, who holds a chemistry degree from Oxford and an MBA from Greenwich, is a leading Catholic intellectual who holds stridently Euro-sceptic views having lived in the centre of Brussels for ten years. Christopher believes a proper approach to issues related to human dignity are key to the reform of the modern decadent political system and is presently writing a book about Pope Francis. He also translates from German and French and writes about European trade and industrial policy. Christopher has spoken at Traditional Britain Group meetings a couple of times over the past two years and is a popular favourite - his highly interesting talks can be found on Youtube.


Track 6 – ‘Activating the Silent Majority’ – Matthew Tait, Founder of Western Spring

Western Spring is a British based website that does battle with politically correct, ‘liberal’ orthodoxy and promotes ideas that further the cause of Western Civilisation and Western people around the world.

Track 7 – ‘Financial Independence’ - Gregory Lauder-Frost, a Vice President of the Traditional Britain Group

Gregory - who read Modern History at Oxford, holds a PhD on 'The Last 50 Years of Imperial Russia', is an established expert on genealogy, and is a certified public accountant - is well known in traditional Tory circles. He is the former Chairman of the Conservative Monday Club’s influential Foreign Affairs Committee and was also the Club’s Political Secretary. He was Publications Editor and Secretary-General of the international Monarchist League; Vice-President of the old Western Goals Institute and founder of the Traditional Britain Group in 2001, and has travelled the world meeting politicians and others with the same interests and concerns as the organisations he represented. He has written extensively on political issues. He has always been a subject of media venom and was recently attacked by them for opposing Doreen Lawrence’s appointment as a Life Peer, and for supporting the Conservative Party’s former manifesto pledge (still a Monday Club policy) that we should be encouraging government-assisted voluntary repatriation of immigrants. He is presently completing a book entitled “The Monday Club – the Crucial 30 Years 1961-1991/2”.


Track 8 – ‘Language and Framing the Debate’ – James Yuille, Traditional Britain Group member


Track 9 - 'Politics: destroyer of natural order' - Andrew Linley

Andrew Linley is co-founder, Vice-President, and Percy Dearmer Professor of Liturgical Studies at European-American University. He is an Old Catholic bishop, and is active in nobiliary and chivalric affairs. Philosophically, he is a paleolibertarian.


Track 10 - 'Establishment Betrayal' - Paul Weston, Liberty GB Leader

'I started writing articles about the left-wing destruction of traditional Britain in 2007, which led to my joining UKIP in 2010. I stood in the last General Election but resigned when it became apparent that UKIP would not confront the Islamic issue, which I consider to be the greatest threat to Britain since Nazism and communism. I joined the British Freedom Party in late 2011, but became disillusioned with the direction it was taking, over which I had little control. In 2013 I established Liberty GB with a small group of ex-British Freedom activists who shared my own political ideology – which is that for a political party to seriously compete in a general election it must appeal to Middle Britain, rather than just the core nationalist vote which the leftist mainstream media find so easy to vilify and smear. If we are to discuss taboo subjects such as mass immigration and Islam, it is imperative we do so from an elevated moral and ethical position impervious to leftist character assassination.'


Track 11 - 'Civil Liberty' - Dr Sean Gabb, Director of the Libertarian Alliance.

Dr Sean Gabb is a writer and broadcaster and academic. He is the author of around fifteen books, which include seven novels and three volumes of poetry. He has been commercially translated into Italian, Spanish, Greek, Slovak, Hungarian and Chinese. Sean is the director of the Libertarian Alliance, a British free market and civil liberties think tank.


Track 12 - 'England' - Robin Tilbrook, Chairman of the English Democrats

Robin Tilbrook has been the English Democrats Leader and Chairman for the last 10 years, during which the English Democrats have built up from a small group to a Party that won executive control over the largest Metropolitan Borough Council in England and won 279,801 votes in the last EU election. Robin Tilbrook is also a solicitor who runs his own firm in Essex and is the past President of the Mid-Essex Law Society. Robin is a former Church Warden and Chairman of his P.C.C. Robin is married with three children and has a wide ranging life experience, having been a soldier, factory worker and a teacher

Track 13 - 'The Future' - Open discussion with everyone

Louis, who achieved a 1st in History and Politics at Newcastle University and works in Marketing, has been Chairman of the Traditional Britain Group since its revival in 2010. A self-described 'radical traditionalist', Louis has been largely responsible for the Traditional Britain Group's clever use of social media channels and other forms of modern technology to communicate the group's message to a younger generation. Louis recently pushed forward the concept of 'Traditionalist Counter Establishment' at a grass roots level following the successful 2013 national conference

If you would like to lead a discussion track please get in touch on info@traditionalbritain.org. Track leaders get a FREE ticket!

Evening Social

The afternoon will be followed by an evening social nearby where a bar will be available.

Venue:

Venue details will be sent to attendees nearer the time. The venue, located in central London will be easily accessible via public transport.

Dress Code

The venue is a London club so it is essential that your dress is smart.

We reserve the right to reject and refund ticket purchases - if you wish to ensure your attendance it may be wise to include a message outlining your political history and background. Thank you.

Contact info@traditionalbritain.org for more information.