Socialist History Society AGM

The Annual General Meeting will take place on Saturday 3rd May at 1pm at the Marx Memorial Library.

This will be followed at 2pm by a talk given by Hugh Davie on
How the Red Army Won the Second World War

HGW Davie gained a MA History at the University of Wolverhampton and is currently Visiting Research Fellow at the East Centre, University of East Anglia. Read on ...

Socialist History Journal 66

Issue 66 of the Socialist History journal is now available.

Members of the Socialist History Society should have received their copy in the post. If you have not received your copy, please contact us.
Everyone else can purchase a copy from the Editor – francis@socialisthistorysociety.co.uk

  • The Lost Art of the Agitator – American anti-capitalism and the power of the spoken word
    Nathan Moore
  • Brotherhood and unity – Djilas, Njegoš, and the Yugoslav idea
    True Sweetser
  • The Ministry for the Recovery of Embezzled Property: the first two years of the Cuban Revolution
    Steve Cushion
  • Special feature: Local History
    Merilyn Moos
  • Tourism versus History in the South-West
    Danny Reilly
  • The Slave Trade and the Growth of Lancaster
    Howard Feather
  • Beer is Best – Left Alone!
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A. L. Morton: Life in the Radical Tradition

Speaker: James Crossley
This talk provided an overview of Morton’s life and work based on recent archival research. It covered the formative influences on Morton’s political and intellectual development and contextualise his work in light of his membership of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Morton’s main publications will be discussed, including A People’s History of England (1938) and The English Utopia (1952), explaining the shifting emphases between the two.
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Enslaved Worker Rebellions and Revolution in the Americas to 1804

by Mary Turner
A Socialist History Society publication, jointly with Caribbean Labour Solidarity
Free to members, £5 post free in UK, £7 overseas.
Contact info@socialisthistorysociety.co.uk

This impressive essay is a sweeping survey of slave resistance across the Americas. As Mary Turner points out, resistance by the enslaved took many forms. This included day-to-day resistance which was the most common form of attempting to undermine the slave system. Read on ...