A Socialist History Society on-line Meeting
Thursday 14 May at 7pm
All welcome, but you will need to register in advance:
https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/MOadx9sRR-yLHQYbVuA4gw
Speaker: Geoff Andrews
An authoritative and original history of the working classes and the British Left
The political Left in Britain rose out of the Industrial Revolution, as the working classes emerged as the leading force in the call for social change. Read on ...
Socialist History invites submissions for an upcoming special issue on resisting fascism.
The current rise of fascist movements is a central challenge to today’s working class movement. This issue seeks to look at episodes, initiatives, questions and disputes from the history of anti-fascism that may be of value to anti-fascists.
Suggested Themes and Topics
We welcome articles of up to 9,000 words. Read on ...
A Socialist History Society public on-line meeting held on Tuesday 17 March 2026
Speaker: John Rees
The thrilling history of Parliament’s ‘fiery spirits’, whose actions led to the defeat of Charles I in the English Civil War and paved the way for the execution of the King in 1649
The Fiery Spirits tells the story of the MPs in parliament and the protestors in the streets who played a pivotal role in the English Civil Wars. Read on ...
Socialist History Society public meeting held on
Tuesday 24th February 2026
Lyndal Roper is Emeritus Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford, the first woman to hold the post. She has written on women and the German Reformation, on witchcraft, and on the German reformer Martin Luther. Her most recent book is a history of the German Peasants’ War, the biggest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. Read on ...
Speakers: Max Farrar & Kevin McDonnell, authors of the recent book on Big Flame published by Merlin Press
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Spanish Antifascists in the Resistance in France 1939-46
by
Steve Cushion
Socialist History Society Occasional Publication 52
Can be downloaded here…
There were many different nationalities of antifascists fighting the Nazis and their French collaborators in occupied France. The largest group were the Spanish refugees who had fled to France following the defeat of the Republic by the Nationalist forces led by Francisco Franco. Read on ...
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