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 ...
The book is free to members of the Society, otherwise £5 inc p&p [£7 overseas] – more details from: s.cushion23@gmail.com
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Class Struggle and Resistance in Northern France and Belgium during the Second World War
By Steve Cushion
The class struggle did not disappear during the Second World War following the occupation of Europe by the German armed forces. Read on ...
Merilyn Moos introduced her 3 books celebrating the lives and struggles of left-wing Germans who opposed the Nazis from exile. These may be freely downloaded below.
| Anti-Nazi Exiles | German Socialists in Britain and their Shifting Alliances 1933-1945 by Merilyn Moos PDF available to download free. More details… |
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| Hans Jahn | Biography of an Anti-Nazi Trade Unionist by Merilyn Moos PDF available to download free. |
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 ...
Book Launch
18th October: 5:30PM – 7:00PM
London Socialist Historians Group – https://www.history.ac.uk/events/red-and-black-russian-revolution-and-black-atlantic
Book details – https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526144300/
Christian Hogsbjerg (University of Brighton), Olga Panova (Lomonosov Moscow State University), Winston James (University of California, Irvine), David Featherstone (University of Glasgow)