Category: Future SHS Meetings
Paul Foot: A Life in Politics
On-line Socialist History Society meeting
Tuesday 19 November at 7pm
All welcome, but you will need to register in advance.
https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtde2trTMvE9YFfwAFJPGAQrueUed6Beqc
Author Margaret Renn will introduce her new book.
A portrait of a brilliant journalist and tireless campaigner for justice
Paul Foot was one of the most influential investigative reporters of his generation. Read on ...
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 ...
Horatio Bottomley and the Far Right Before Fascism
Socialist History Society meeting
Horatio Bottomley grew up in a prominent secularist family, knew Bradlaugh and Holyoake from a young age, before making his own career as a newspaper proprietor. He became an anti-socialist Liberal, a war-time champion of anti-German riots, and finally a leading figure in the post-1918 far right. Read on ...
Socialism in the English-Speaking Caribbean seminar series
The Socialist History Society, The Institute of Commonwealth Studies and The Society for Caribbean Studies will be holding a series of online research seminars.
The participants have been invited to submit written papers in advance of the seminars. These will be available to everyone who registers.
Attendance is free, but advance registration is necessary. Read on ...