Category: Past SHS Meetings
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 ...
AL MORTON MEMORIAL LECTURE 2024
The World of the Ranters Revisited
Speaker
Dr Ariel Hessayon
24th September 2024
If you want to see the subtitles, click on “Watch on YouTube“
About the speaker
Dr Ariel Hessayon is Reader in Early Modern History, Goldsmiths, University of London
The Museum of Revolution is the progeny of the mightiest of revolutions…
Revolutionary museums in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union before and after 1917
a Socialist History Society Public Meeting held on 29th October 2024
Speaker: Nikolay Sarkisyan
In Soviet Russia, the world’s first museum of revolution opened in Petrograd in 1919. This marked the beginning of a special type of museum – the historical-revolutionary museum – which was followed by other similar museums in the USSR, opening in the 1920s and 1930s and continuing until the end of the Soviet Union. Read on ...