Category: Past SHS Meetings
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 ...
Raphael Samuel and People’s History
A look at the work of socialist historian Raphael Samuel and the History Workshop movement.
2pm, Saturday, 1st June 2024
Speakers
John Merrick, editor, Workshop of the World: Essays in People’s History by Raphael Samuel (Verso)
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Anna Davin, socialist feminist historian and author of Growing Up Poor, among other works, who was part of the History Workshop and a founder editor of its journal.
Perfidious Albion: Britain & The Spanish Civil War
Speaker Professor Paul Preston
The eminent historian, Professor Paul Preston, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the Spanish Civil War. He is the author of numerous books on modern Spain, the Spanish Republic, the war and its aftermath. In this talk, Paul will speak about his latest book, ‘Perfidious Albion’: Britain and the Spanish Civil War’ which is published by The Clapton Press. Read on ...
A Devilish Kind of Courage
The tale of a notorious 1911 London gunfight, the ‘Siege of Sidney Street’, and its consequences.
More details of the book on the publisher’s website…
On 3 January 1911, in the heart of London’s mainly Jewish East End, police discovered Latvian revolutionaries wanted for the murder of three officers. A six-hour gunfight ensued, with a fire consuming the besieged building. Read on ...