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 ...