Category: Past SHS Meetings
Red Letters: Life and Death of a Small Radical Project
First shown 2pm Saturday 12 June
Online talk hosted by the Socialist History Society
Speaker David Margolies
About the speaker:
David Margolies was a member of the collective responsible for the journal Red Letters, published from 1976 to 1991
He is Emeritus Professor of English at Goldsmiths, University of London. Read on ...
Writers of the Left in an Age of Extremes
Launch meeting for the SHS’s latest Occasional Publication
6.30pm, Saturday, 29 May
You can download David Morgan’s presentation about Edgell Rickword from here…
The joint authors of the publication discuss why the writers who are featured still matter. David Morgan will speak about Edgell Rickword and Greta Sykes will speak about Anna Seghers and Carlo Levi. Read on ...
‘Hot spots’ and ‘Heartlands’
Local histories of Britain’s War Resisters 1914-1918
The SHS hosted speaker Cyril Pearce for an online talk at 2pm, Saturday, 24th April.
If you wish to buy either of Cyril’s books books – Comrades in Conscience and Communities of Resistance – they are available from the publisher via the Francis Boutle website. Read on ...
SYLVIA PANKHURST IN AMERICA
A talk by Katherine Connelly hosted by the SHS On 15th April
About the speaker:
Katherine Connelly is a historian, writer and activist. The author of the biography Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire (Pluto Press, 2013), she most recently edited and introduced Pankhurst’s hitherto unpublished manuscript about her tours of the United States: A Suffragette in America: Reflections on Prisoners, Pickets and Political Change (Pluto Press, 2019). Read on ...