SHS news and other events 2010

Thursday 19th August 2010

Public Meeting:- Gramsci in the 21st Century - talk by Anne Showstack Sassoon, followed by discussion. Professor emeritus of politics, Kingston University and senior visiting research fellow at Birkbeck College, Anne is one of the world’s leading authorities on the work and ideas of Antonio Gramsci. Her various publications include Approaches to Gramsci (1981), Gramsci’s Politics (1988), Gramsci and Contemporary Politics, (2000) and Women and the State (1987).

Time: 7.00 p.m. Venue: Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2 (opposite Liverpool Street Station)

Free attendance. All welcome. Retiring collection.

Tuesday 2nd November 2010

Public Meeting:- 'Dora Montefiore, Why Forgotten?' A talk by Ted Crawford. Ted Crawford, the editor of Revolutionary History and a member of the Socialist History Society, looks at the long and active political career of Dora Montefiore (1851-1933), variously a Suffragist, Socialist and Communist who was active in Britain and Australia, but who is today largely forgotten. Talk followed by discussion.

Venue: Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2 (opposite Liverpool Street Station). Time: 7.00 p.m. Admittance free. All welcome. Retiring collection.

Saturday, 13th November 2010

Public Meeting:- Love in the Time of Communism: Sexuality and Private Life in East Germany - talk by Josie McLellan, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, Bristol University. A specialist in the social and cultural history of the German Democratic Republic, Josie’s publications include Antifascism and Memory in East Germany: Remembering the International Brigades 1945-1989 (2004) and Visual dangers and delights: nude photography in East Germany, (Past and Present, August 2009).

Time: 2.00 p.m. Venue: Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2 (opposite Liverpool Street Station). Admission £1.50. All welcome.

Saturday 16 October 2010

Socialist Historians Up North - Autumn Day School 2010.
Venue: People’s History Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3ER
Timetable:
09.45: Tea and Coffee (please purchase in the Museum)
10.00 to 12.15: The Great Unrest, Labour and Syndicalism 1900-1914 (Edd Mustill presenting)
12.15 to 1.15pm: Lunch (bring your own, or purchase at Museum cafe)
1.15 to 3.30pm: ‘Social Democratic Trajectories in Modern Europe: one or many families?’ (Professor Stefan Berger, Manchester University, presenting)
3.30 to 4.00pm: Planning and Organising the Socialist Historians; future meetings etc.
If you think you might be coming along, please let us know by e-mail (see below). Note that lunch is not provided, so bring your own, or use the museum’s cafe.
Day school fee: £7 waged, £5 unwaged, to cover cost of room hire.
Contact: ed (at) myhistory.net