Women’s football in Britain during the 1880s
Ariel Hessayon- Arthur Creech Jones: the quiet revolutionary and the Labour Party’s pre- and post-war policy on African colonial self-government
Duncan Bowie - Fascism, Free Speech and Academic Freedom: A case study from the 1980s
Michael Newman - The Rise and Fall and Rise of World Marxist Review: Reflections on the past and present journal
Helena Sheehan - Peasant War, Violence and Revolution
Jakub Beneš in conversation with Samuel Foster and Francis King - Review article: What was Bolshevism?
Newsletter Spring 2026
The Socialist History Society Newsletter can be downloaded here…
- Levellers Day 2026
- 1926 General Strike Centenary Open Day
- Leyton and the General Strike
- Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian
- Radical and Socialist History in South London
- Local History in Salford and Manchester
- How I Became a Socialist
- Why Rosa Luxemburg remains a beacon for today
- Left on the Shelf
- The General Strike by Harry Wicks
- Forthcoming meetings
The Socialist History Society AGM will take place at the
Marx Memorial Library 37A Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU, nearest station Farringdon on Saturday 6 June at 1pm,
This will be followed at 2pm by a talk by Donald Sassoon on his new book Revolutions: A New History
Prophets and Witches: Witchcraft, Gender and Politics in Revolutionary England
On-line talk from the Socialist History Society
2 June 2026
Speaker: Debra Parish
Prophets and Witches offers an exploration of female prophecy and witchcraft during the political and religious upheavals of the English Revolutionary period from 1640 to 1660.
The religious fervour and End of Days enthusiasm precipitated by the Civil War opened the door for unprecedented numbers of women to achieve visibility and spiritual authority as prophets. Read on ...
Revolutions: A New History
The Socialist History Society AGM took place on Saturday 6 June
followed by a talk by Donald Sassoon on his new book
Historian Donald Sassoon takes the long view of some of the most famous upheavals: the English Civil War, the American War of Independence, the national uprisings that unified Italy and Germany, and the French, Russian and Chinese revolutions. Read on ...