Category: Members Publications
Brothers, Be United, And You Will Be Strong: The Farm Workers’ Union in the Basildon Area, 1872-94 by Ted Woodgate
This book details the narrative of the farm workers union, (NALU) in the Basildon district of south Essex 1872 to 1894. It is an in depth study of a small area told in the contexts of the overall successes and failures of the union nationally and the economic and political circumstances of the time.The Left and CND
Socialist History Society online meeting
Tuesday 16 September 2025 at 7pm
Tuesday 16 September 2025 at 7pm
All welcome, but you will need to register in advance:
Martin Shaw will talk about his new book The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Agenda Publishing), a history of the antinuclear movement in Britain up to the present day. In the late 1950s, this was the first mass protest movement of the postwar period and proved seminal for the antiwar and social movements which followed, which in turn profoundly influenced its second big wave in the 1980s.
Read on ... A new look at the Webbs
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 ...
A Devilish Kind of Courage
The tale of a notorious 1911 London gunfight, the ‘Siege of Sidney Street’, and its consequences.
More details of the book on the publisher’s website…
On 3 January 1911, in the heart of London’s mainly Jewish East End, police discovered Latvian revolutionaries wanted for the murder of three officers. A six-hour gunfight ensued, with a fire consuming the besieged building. Read on ...