Category: Meetings
A. L. Morton: Life in the Radical Tradition
Speaker: James Crossley
This talk provided an overview of Morton’s life and work based on recent archival research. It covered the formative influences on Morton’s political and intellectual development and contextualise his work in light of his membership of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Morton’s main publications will be discussed, including A People’s History of England (1938) and The English Utopia (1952), explaining the shifting emphases between the two.
Read on ... REWILDING WILLIAM MORRIS
Speaker Dr Phillippa Bennett
Rewilding has an essential role in addressing the current climate crisis and has also inspired a significant and highly popular corpus of literary non-fiction in which individual writers describe their own personal experiences and processes of rewilding. Rewilding has often been conceived in individualist terms however in such writing, and contemporary rewilding discourses more generally can perpetuate the idea that ‘Nature’ is something other than human, whilst prioritising human needs and desires. 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 ...
Paul Foot: A Life in Politics
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 ...