Socialist History Public Zoom Meeting
Wednesday 15 January 2025 at 7pm
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The Extraordinary Life of a Revolutionary Journalist
I will talk about the subject of my book, my father, the radical journalist Claud Cockburn, who fought successfully against the political and media establishment. Read on ...
On-line Socialist History Society meeting held on Tuesday 19 November
Author Margaret Renn introduces her new book.
A portrait of a brilliant journalist and tireless campaigner for justice
Paul Foot was one of the most influential investigative reporters of his generation. For nearly fifty years, he was the scourge of corrupt politicians and dodgy businessmen, a champion of the underdog. Read on ...
12 February 2025 at 7pm
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Speaker: Sheila Rowbotham
I have done three memoirs of the 1960s. 70s and 80s – ‘Promise of a Dream’, ‘ Daring to Hope’ and ‘Reasons to Rebel’. I wrote these because I wanted to record and bring into view the radical people and movements and ideas which have influenced me in the hope that younger people miight find them interesting and begin to look at the recent past in more detail.
5 March 2025 at 7pm
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Speaker Laleh Khalili
The Indian Ocean basin is one of the most contested political spaces in contemporary politics, not least because of the long history of colonial conquest and imperial projection there. In this talk, Laleh Khalili will discuss the long history of the intrusion of European powers into this maritime space and discuss the afterlives of colonialism and continued imperial interest in this space. Read on ...
An on-line talk for the Socialist History Society by Michael Ward, author of Unceasing War on Poverty : Beatrice & Sidney Webb and their World
First broadcast on Wednesday 16 October 2024
This engaging biography of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, ‘Unceasing War on Poverty’, takes the reader into the world of the Webbs, the remarkable couple who changed Britain, inspiring a generation to fight for a better society. Read on ...