Category: Publications
Brothers, Be United, And You Will Be Strong: The Farm Workers’ Union in the Basildon Area, 1872-94 by Ted Woodgate
This book details the narrative of the farm workers union, (NALU) in the Basildon district of south Essex 1872 to 1894. It is an in depth study of a small area told in the contexts of the overall successes and failures of the union nationally and the economic and political circumstances of the time.Enslaved Worker Rebellions and Revolution in the Americas to 1804
by Mary Turner
A Socialist History Society publication, jointly with Caribbean Labour Solidarity
Free to members, £5 post free in UK, £7 overseas.
Contact info@socialisthistorysociety.co.uk
This impressive essay is a sweeping survey of slave resistance across the Americas. As Mary Turner points out, resistance by the enslaved took many forms. This included day-to-day resistance which was the most common form of attempting to undermine the slave system. Read on ...
The Left and CND
Socialist History Society online meeting
Tuesday 16 September 2025 at 7pm
Tuesday 16 September 2025 at 7pm
All welcome, but you will need to register in advance:
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.
Read on ... A new look at the Webbs
An on-line talk for the Socialist History Society by Michael Ward, author of Unceasing War on Poverty : Beatrice & Sidney Webb and their World
First broadcast on Wednesday 16 October 2024
This engaging biography of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, ‘Unceasing War on Poverty’, takes the reader into the world of the Webbs, the remarkable couple who changed Britain, inspiring a generation to fight for a better society. Read on ...