Category: Future SHS Meetings
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 ...
Aimé Césaire and Martinique
Socialist History online public meeting
19 May 2025 at 7pm
Speaker Kevin Morgan
https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/5swIUNc-QRm6y-55cdFwBQ
In October 1956 Aimé Césaire announced his resignation from the French communist party in an open letter to the PCF’s leader Maurice Thorez. Better known as a writer and co-architect of the concept of negritude, Césaire was a communist of eleven years’ standing and one of two PCF deputies representing Martinique in the French national assembly. Read on ...
The Left and CND
Socialist History Society online meeting
Tuesday 16 September 2025 at 7pm
Tuesday 16 September 2025 at 7pm
All welcome, but you will need to register in advance:
Martin Shaw will talk about his new book The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Agenda Publishing), a history of the antinuclear movement in Britain up to the present day. In the late 1950s, this was the first mass protest movement of the postwar period and proved seminal for the antiwar and social movements which followed, which in turn profoundly influenced its second big wave in the 1980s.
Read on ... 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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