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London Socialist Historians Group
2M ago
London Socialist Historians Group seminars Spring 2024
'Doctor Who and the Communist: the work and politics of Malcolm Hulke TV scriptwriter' - Michael Herbert Date: Mon 22 January Start time: 1730 On Zoom. Free. Book here: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/doctor-who-and-communist-work-and-politics-malcolm-hulme-tv-scriptwriter
‘Hen Chartists’ and ‘Vulgar Viragos’: Rethinking the role of women in the Chartist Movement - Judy Cox
Date: Monday 5th February Start time: 5.30pm On Zoom
Transnational Perspectives on French Anarchism(1880-1918), Biography, Network ..read more
London Socialist Historians Group
5M ago
Socialist History Seminar Mon 23rd Oct 5.30pm. Tony Collins on the Rugby World Cup. William Webb Ellis- his role in the class struggle
In person seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St, London WC1
Free but please register as space is limited:
https://www.history.ac.uk/events/rugby-william-webb-ellis-his-role-class-struggle
Room 301 on the 3rd Floor
Tony Collins will look at the origins of the William Webb Ellis trophy currently being played for in the Rugby World Cup in France, and the class struggles behind its origins ..read more
London Socialist Historians Group
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Socialist History Seminar - Monday 9th October. Catherine Howe, Chartism in London in 1848
1848 was a year of revolution across Europe, but Britain appeared to be an exception.
Catherine Howe’s book on London Chartism in 1848, 175 years ago, explores a rather different reality. The revolutionary currents and activists at work in the Spring and Summer of 1848 that caused a significant response from the State.
Chartism in London in 1848 Catherine Howe Monday 9th October Time: 5.30pm
Free on Zoom. Book here: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/chartism-london-1848
Organised b ..read more
London Socialist Historians Group
1y ago
Richard Croucher (1949–2022)
Richard Croucher, who died at the age of 73 last December, was a well-known figure in the field of labour studies in Britain and beyond. His books Engineers at War and We Refuse to Starve in Silence made a significant contribution to understanding and popularising working-class resistance in the first fifty years of the twentieth century and engaged a wide readership. For twenty years he worked as Tutor-Organiser for the WEA teaching courses for trade union activists. Subsequently he was a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Trade Union Management at th ..read more
London Socialist Historians Group
1y ago
Socialist History Seminars Spring Term 2023
These will be on zoom - links to register coming soon thanks
Monday January 23rd 5.30pm - Steve Cushion. 'The Drax Family Dynasty and the Business of Slavery: Reparations for Enslavement as a Trade Union Issue'.
Monday February 6th 5.30pm John Foot, 'The Left and Italian Fascism. Violence and Victims?'
Monday February 20th 5.30pm, Judy Greenway, '"A Poet among the Social Reformers": Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne, Suffragist, Socialist and Freethinker.'
Monday March 6th 5.30pm Merilyn Moos, 'Living With Shadows. A memoir of a daughter of Ger ..read more
London Socialist Historians Group
1y ago
London Socialist Historians Seminars Autumn 2022
From the Defence Economy to Anti-Nazi Memoirs
All seminars are on Mondays at 5.30pm via Zoom. Please register via the Institute of Historical Research link (these will be posted shortly)
Mon 24th October 5.30pm. Keith McLoughlin. The British Left and the Defence Economy: competing visions of social democracy
Mon 7th November 5.30pm Jane McChrystal and Anne Padfield. The Splendid Mrs McCheyne & the East London Federation of Suffragettes.
Mon 21st November 5.30pm. Catherine Howe, Chartism in London in 1848
Mon 5th Decemb ..read more
London Socialist Historians Group
1y ago
Socialist History Society Talk Via Zoom
Valentine Ackland: A Transgressive Life
Speaker: Frances Bingham
Wednesday 28th September 2022 at 7pm
Register here (free)
http://www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk/?p=1416
Valentine Ackland was a poet, gender-rebel, and lover of the writer Sylvia Townsend Warner. For much of her life she was under MI5 surveillance for ‘abnormality’ as well as Communism. This talk about Ackland’s transgressive life, by her biographer Frances Bingham, considers her lifelong political activism – w ..read more
London Socialist Historians Group
1y ago
Socialist History Seminars Summer 2022
[Update - both of these seminars have had to be postponed due to illness]
Below are details of London Socialist Historians seminars for the Summer Term 2022.
We have been rather constrained by meeting on Mondays and clashing with Bank Holidays this year. Once again seminars are on Zoom. We had hoped to resume in person seminars and while the IHR is allowing this, arrangements are not I’m afraid yet back to pre-pandemic times. We hope to resume some in person seminars in the Autumn term 2022.
You will need to register via the Institute of Historical Resear ..read more
London Socialist Historians Group
1y ago
[From London Socialist Historians Group Newsletter 75 Spring 2022]
Hijacking History How the Christian Right Teaches History and Why It Matters
Kathleen Wellman
Oxford University Press
2021
ISBN 9780197579251
This might well seem a peripheral subject of little real interest or concern, but anyone thinking that would be seriously wrong. The US Christian Right were crucial in the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency in 2016, were still right behind him in 2020 and are essential to the continuation of his hold over Republican politics in the USA. And as far ..read more
London Socialist Historians Group
1y ago
Merilyn Moos has got in touch to let us know about the publication of her memoir, which we are happy to let LSHG supporters know about. As Merilyn says:
''Living with Shadows is a brief memoir about how I, the daughter of two German refugees and anti-Nazi activists, spent so much of my life 'living with shadows'. I was born into a home of secrets and silences. My father did not speak of his time as a militant anti-Nazi in Berlin nor about how he only just escaped Germany. My mother never spoke of having to flee Moscow, leaving behind her lover who died in the gulags. Neither p ..read more