Category: Past SHS Meetings
Daring to Hope
A personal history of the politics of the 1970s
A meeting of the Socialist History Society with historian Sheila Rowbotham
The SHS is pleased to announce that our first talk of 2022 was with historian Sheila Rowbotham who discussed her involvement in the women’s liberation movement, left-wing politics and the “alternative” culture of the 1970s. Read on ...
‘G.D.H. Cole: A Libertarian Trapped in the Labour Party’
Socialist History Society Meeting
A talk by David Goodway
G.D.H. Cole (1889-1959) declared forcefully at the end of his life that he was ‘neither a Communist nor a Social Democrat…but something…essentially different from both’. He had been a leading Guild Socialist at the time of World War One and that, he explained, was what he remained. Read on ...
The Workers’ Movement and Revolution in Egypt since 1919
Socialist History Society Meeting – on-line via Zoom
14th October, 6:30pm
Speaker Anne Alexander
Anne Alexander is the co-author, with Mostafa Bassiouny, of Bread, Freedom, Social Justice: Workers and the Egyptian Revolution (Zed, 2014). She is a founder member of MENA Solidarity Network, the co-editor of Middle East Solidarity and a member of the University and College Union (UCU).