Category: Future SHS Meetings
Workers in London Government
Working class radicals, trade unionists and socialists on the London School Board and the first years of the London County Council, 1870-1914
Launch of a Socialist History Society publication by Duncan Bowie
10 November 2026 at 7pm London time
All welcome, but you will need to register in advance:-
https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/C3Ausa0ZQkCEFg5TCk2x0g
Duncan Bowie is a historian and town planner. Read on ...
Stalin’s Peacemaker: Ilya Ehrenburg and the Struggle Against Nuclear Annihilation
Socialist History on-line meeting, speaker: Geoff Roberts
Tuesday 1 December 2026 at 7pm
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https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/VmFZBY_fSz-OLppOMP0k6g
Based on extensive research in Russian archives, the talk will explore Ehrenburg’s role as an international peace activist. It will cast new light on his biography and the history of the postwar peace movement, and on Moscow’s relations with the World Peace Council, which were far from simple. Read on ...
The Paris Commune in Britain
Author Laura Forster will speak about her new book on The Paris Commune in Britain, Radicals, Refugees, and Revolutionaries after 1871
On-line Socialist History Society meeting Tuesday 2 February 2027 at 7pm
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https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/8weQ3uoXSuSAe9Fxbg98Vw
Following the defeat of the Paris Commune in May 1871, thousands of Commune militants fled France to avoid imprisonment, deportation, or death. Read on ...
The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian
Author Emile Chabal will talk about his new book, an intellectual biography of Eric Hobsbawm, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.
Tuesday 2 March 2027 on-line at 7pm
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https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/OExSNWuETUeqXG9JnFEQ7A
Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) was one of the foremost European intellectuals of the twentieth century. Read on ...