Category: Past SHS Meetings
“Beyond the Tricolour:” A book talk with Ian Birchall
Join our friends at Historical Materialism for a discussion of “Beyond the Tricolour” with author Ian Birchall, Leo Zeilig, Matt Myers, Lucie Rondeau, and Jim Wolfreys.
Online event
Tuesday 20 January 2026 from 6pm to 7:30pm GMT
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This book examines the theme of internationalism, in the form of opposition to nationalism, racism and war, in the context of French history, and in particular of the French socialist and working-class movement. Read on ...
Christopher Hill: the life of a radical historian
Speaker: Michael Braddick
A Socialist History Society on-line meeting on 7 October 2025
Christopher Hill was one of the leading historians of his generation. His work across more than fifteen books and dozens of articles fundamentally rewrote the way we understand the English Revolution and the development of the modern British state. Read on ...
Aimé Césaire and Martinique
Socialist History online public meeting on 19 May 2025
Speaker Kevin Morgan
In October 1956 Aimé Césaire announced his resignation from the French communist party in an open letter to the PCF’s leader Maurice Thorez. Better known as a writer and co-architect of the concept of negritude, Césaire was a communist of eleven years’ standing and one of two PCF deputies representing Martinique in the French national assembly. Read on ...
The Left and CND
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.
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