Category: Past SHS Meetings
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 ...
British Labour Movement and Internationalism
Socialist History Society Zoom Public Meeting
Tuesday 19th January
If you missed the meeting, you can still see a recording here:
In this era of Brexit, the British Labour Party and the wider labour movement face the twin challenges of globalised capitalism on the one hand, and an upsurge in backward-looking nationalism on the other. Read on ...
Book Launch – “The Defeat of Gilgamesh” by Greta Sykes
Thursday December 10th at 7pm [via Zoom]
This book presents an epic feminist narrative about ancient Mesopotamia. It tells the story of the beginning of writing, the spiritual world of the people, their harvest festivals and their close relationship with their gods. Taking the form of an adventure story, many details of life in the earliest known civilisation are depicted in a dramatic way. Read on ...
Tastes of Honey: Shelagh Delaney, class and feminism in postwar Britain – Zoom Meeting
Socialist History Society Public Zoom Meeting
Saturday 26 September, 2020 2:00 PM London
Speaker: Professor Selina Todd
Selina Todd is Professor of Modern History at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. She has been President of the Socialist Educational Association since 2017.
Her research interests focus on working-class, women’s and feminist history in modern Britain. Read on ...