Category: Publications
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Socialist and Scourge of Empire (Pluto Press, 2013), she most recently edited and introduced Pankhurst’s hitherto unpublished manuscript about her tours of the United States: A Suffragette in America: Reflections on Prisoners, Pickets and Political Change (Pluto Press, 2019).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 ...
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 ...