Category: Publications
Art for All: British Socially Committed Art from the 1930s to the Cold War
Art for All reveals a forgotten or marginalised area of 20th century British art. Christine Lindey delves into the fascinating treasure trove of British socially committed art from the 1930s through to the Cold War.
With over 100 illustrations, she demonstrates why the artists deserve to beArt for All press release rediscovered. Read on ...
Rebellious Writing: Marginalised Edwardians and the Struggle for Symbolic Power
CALL FOR CHAPTERS FOR EDITED VOLUME
Edited by Lauren O’ Hagan, Cardiff University
This volume will explore ‘ordinary writing’ – that is, ‘writing that is typically unseen or ignored and is primarily defined by its status as discardable’ – as an important new way in which to approach the power and identity of marginalised groups in Edwardian Britain (1901-1914). Read on ...
SHS Newsletter
Summer 2018 edition of the Socialist History Society Newsletter can be downloaded from here…
- Bill Peltz A Personal Appreciation
- Echoes of Revolution conference report
- The legacy of Rodney Hilton
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Book review – Communism and Democracy
- Death at the Frontier
- Music review – Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of WWII
- The Destruction of the Lukács Archives in Budapest
- Powerful Women in 12th century Early Renaissance Sicily
- The Windrush Scandal and the History of Slavery
- Book Review – Yes to Europe, The 1975 Referendum Campaign and Seventies Britain
- Book review – The Histories of Raphael Samuel
- INTRODUCING THE SCOTTISH LABOUR HISTORY SOCIETY
- Prostitution, Pimping and Trafficking – a series of six talks at Conway Hall, curated by Deborah Lavin
- Future Socialist History Society Public Meetings
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“The Labour Party in Historical Perspective”
A Socialist History Society Occasional Publication
£6 – Available from:
deborahlaving[a]mail.com
The Labour Party was established in 1900 by trade unionists and socialists as a means of giving a strong independent political voice to working men and women in Parliament and in local government. Its core socialist values were definitively defined in its classic Constitution adopted in 1918 at a time when the party was reorganising itself to become a more efficient national political machine. Read on ...