Category: Future SHS Meetings

Future SHS Meetings

The German Peasants’ War of 1524-6 and why you should care about it

Socialist History Society public meeting held on
Tuesday 24th February 2026 

Lyndal Roper is Emeritus Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford, the first woman to hold the post. She has written on women and the German Reformation, on witchcraft, and on the German reformer Martin Luther. Her most recent book is a history of the German Peasants’ War, the biggest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. Read on ...

Big Flame: Building Movements, New Politics

Speakers: Max Farrar & Kevin McDonnell, authors of the recent book on Big Flame published by Merlin Press

This book addresses the ideas and experiences of a small British revolutionary socialist and feminist organisation in the 1970s and 1980s.

Written by two ex-members, it sets out the organisation’s eclectic influences: Italian Marxism, libertarianism, feminism, James-ianism and personal politics.

Read on ...