Category: Past SHS Meetings
‘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Socialist and Scourge of Empire (Pluto Press, 2013), she most recently edited and introduced Pankhurst’s hitherto unpublished manuscript about her tours of the United States: A Suffragette in America: Reflections on Prisoners, Pickets and Political Change (Pluto Press, 2019).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 ...
Video of “A People’s History of Classics”
A talk with Edith Hall and Henry Stead
Hosted by the Socialist History Society
The talk was be based on the book by Hall and Stead of the same name, A People’s History of Classics, Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939, which was published in 2020. Read on ...
Book Launch – “The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology” by John Bellamy Foster
Sunday 14th February 2021
Speaker: John Bellamy Foster
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Twenty years ago, John Bellamy Foster’s Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature introduced a new understanding of Karl Marx’s revolutionary ecological materialism. Read on ...