We, the committee of the Socialist History Society in the UK, condemn the unjust firing of tenured Associate Professor of History Thomas Alter by Texas State University, San Marcos. This unjust firing is reminiscent of the dark days of McCarthyist witch hunts of socialists in the period of the Smith Act – and a threat to the basic human right to freedom of expression and organisation. Read on ...
Big Flame: Building Movements, New Politics
Socialist History Society public meeting on-line via Zoom
Wednesday 4th February 2026
All welcome, but you will need to register in advance:
https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/VEPy–sbSeq1Pa4ezQF_Cg
Speakers: Max Farrar & Kevin McDonnell, authors of the recent book on Big Flame published by Merlin Press
Read on ...Newsletter Autumn 2025
Articles on:
- How I Became a Socialist by David Morgan
- Blood, Sweat & Tears – Photographs from the great miners’ strike 1984-1985
- The Legacy of Slavery and the Case for Reparations – The launch of a Socialist History Occasional Publication
- Book reviews
- The Social Railway and Its Workers in Europe’s Modern Era, 1880-2023
- Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World
- The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
- Eve Meets Dante – a novel by Greta Sykes
- The Czech Refugee Trust Fund in Britain, 1938-1975.
The German Peasants’ War of 1524-6 and why you should care about it
Socialist History Society public meeting on-line via Zoom
Tuesday 24th February 2026
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https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/Oeuw1FnUQGiNM-_diblvLQ
Lyndal Roper is Emeritus Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford, the first woman to hold the post. She has written on women and the German Reformation, on witchcraft, and on the German reformer Martin Luther. Read on ...