Category: Future SHS Meetings
Perfidious Albion: Britain & The Spanish Civil War
Speaker Professor Paul Preston
28 March 2024 Start time: 6.30pm
Online, free to register, all welcome.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkce-srTMjG9EC4HBDHlUrul62JMWNdQ3Q
The eminent historian, Professor Paul Preston, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the Spanish Civil War. He is the author of numerous books on modern Spain, the Spanish Republic, the war and its aftermath. Read on ...
A Devilish Kind of Courage
Anarchists, Aliens and the Siege of Sidney Street
A Socialist History on-line meeting with author Andrew Whitehead
15 April 2024 at 7pm
All welcome, but you will need to register in advance:-
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpdemrqzIqG90hC0QJ-B7ihKiJnN2jAtVU
The tale of a notorious 1911 London gunfight, the ‘Siege of Sidney Street’, and its consequences.
On 3 January 1911, in the heart of London’s mainly Jewish East End, police discovered Latvian revolutionaries wanted for the murder of three officers. Read on ...
Horatio Bottomley and the Far Right Before Fascism
Socialist History Society meeting
Horatio Bottomley grew up in a prominent secularist family, knew Bradlaugh and Holyoake from a young age, before making his own career as a newspaper proprietor. He became an anti-socialist Liberal, a war-time champion of anti-German riots, and finally a leading figure in the post-1918 far right. Read on ...
Socialism in the English-Speaking Caribbean seminar series
The Socialist History Society, The Institute of Commonwealth Studies and The Society for Caribbean Studies will be holding a series of online research seminars.
The participants have been invited to submit written papers in advance of the seminars. These will be available to everyone who registers.
Attendance is free, but advance registration is necessary. Read on ...