The Society takes an interest in every aspect of human history from the earliest social formations to modern society, its culture and political activities. We encourage anyone with an interest in our history to join us and participate in our activities. The Society is particularly interested in the struggles of labour, women, progressive and peace movements throughout the world, as well as the movements and achievements of working class communities, colonial peoples, black people, and other oppressed groups seeking social justice, human dignity and liberation.
By David Morgan
Issue Number 45 in the Occasional Publications series of the SHS
This is by no means the first time that “The Good Old Cause” has been used as the title of a publication with an historical theme of this kind. The Good Old Cause: English Revolution of 1640-1660 was the name given to a collection of political writings from the seventeenth century edited by Christopher Hill and Edmund Dell that first came out in 1949 as part of a series called History in the Making under the overall editorship of Dona Torr. Read on ...
A Socialist History Society Public Zoom Meeting
Saturday 26 September, 2020 2:00 PM London
Speaker: Professor Selina Todd
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtc-2opzsvH90M-XTmqBK4TyGYicHLPNEq
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Selina Todd is Professor of Modern History at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Read on ...
Labour Heritage is delighted to announce publication of the autobiography of Syd Bidwell who served as Labour Member of Parliament for Southall 1966 – 1992, and was well known in his day for his stand against racism.
‘Southall became a place of settlement for many workers and later families from the Indian sub-continent. Read on ...
The Summer 2020 Newsletter may be downloaded from here…
- Tributes to Deborah Lavin, Malcolm Chase and Mike Pentelow
- Reviews of Ghosts of West Virginia, London Story 1848, The Mayflower in Britain, The End of Policing, Insurgent Empire and The Defeat of Gilgamesh
- Reports of Marxism in Art conference and a project on German Left-Wing Exiles in the UK.
Read on ...
Teaching the Cold War: A Study of School History Textbooks
by Helen Mercer, Greta Sykes and Jan Woolf,
Reprint in digital form for the 75th anniversary of VE Day
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This pamphlet was researched and written between 1983 and 1985 during the “second Cold War” and was launched at a press conference at the House of Commons chaired by Tony Benn. Read on ...