We are delighted to announce the new president of the Socialist History Society and our two new vice presidents
WILLIE THOMPSON
President of the SHS
Willie has accepted our invitation to become our third Honorary President following the sad death of Stan Newens. Stan had succeeded Prof Eric Hobsbawm, our first president. 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:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItc-CrqjouHd1qc347cjKGzrYMS58ZTsdS
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 ...
Local histories of Britain’s War Resisters 1914-1918
The SHS hosted speaker Cyril Pearce for an online talk at 2pm, Saturday, 24th April.
If you wish to buy either of Cyril’s books books – Comrades in Conscience and Communities of Resistance – they are available from the publisher via the Francis Boutle website. 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Socialist and Scourge of Empire (Pluto Press, 2013), she most recently edited and introduced Pankhurst’s hitherto unpublished manuscript about her tours of the United States: A Suffragette in America: Reflections on Prisoners, Pickets and Political Change (Pluto Press, 2019).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 ...
2pm Saturday 12 June
Online talk hosted by the Socialist History Society
Speaker David Margolies
All welcome, free to attend, but you must register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0uf-CgqDwtHtK6FGRc3ADzlv9miW6eG9jL
About the speaker:
David Margolies was a member of the collective responsible for the journal Red Letters, published from 1976 to 1991
He is Emeritus Professor of English at Goldsmiths, University of London. 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.
More details and registration