Local histories of Britain’s War Resisters 1914-1918
The SHS will host speaker Cyril Pearce for an online talk at 2pm, Saturday, 24th April.
Free entry, all welcome but registration required:
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For a hundred years the received wisdom has been that Britain’s part in the First World War was universally popular and that those who opposed it were at the margin and of no account – eccentric and a little odd. Read on ...
Launch meeting for the SHS’s latest Occasional Publication
6.30pm, Saturday, 29 May
All welcome, free to attend, but you must register:
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The joint authors of the publication will discuss why the writers who are featured still matter. David Morgan will speak about Edgell Rickword and Greta Sykes will speak about Anna Seghers and Carlo Levi. Read on ...
A talk by Katherine Connelly hosted by the SHS On 15th April
About the speaker:
Katherine Connelly is a historian, writer and activist. The author of the biography Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire (Pluto Press, 2013), she most recently edited and introduced Pankhurst’s hitherto unpublished manuscript about her tours of the United States: A Suffragette in America: Reflections on Prisoners, Pickets and Political Change (Pluto Press, 2019). Read on ...
A talk with Edith Hall and Henry Stead
Hosted by the Socialist History Society
The talk was be based on the book by Hall and Stead of the same name, A People’s History of Classics, Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939, which was published in 2020. Read on ...
Wednesday, 14 April 2021 – 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Louise Michel, feminist, anarchist, poet, playwright and journalist, who survived the bloody end of the 1871 Paris Commune and subsequent exile to New Caledonia, loved London and visited several times.
by Mike Makin-Waite
Pre-order On Burnley Road for delivery in May 2021
What was happening in Burnley Town Hall when the British National Party was winning and holding seats there? What lay behind the far right’s advance, and what effect did it have on local government and wider policy trends? How did mainstream parties respond? Read on ...
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