Socialist History Society Zoom Public Meeting
Tuesday 19th January
If you missed the meeting, you can still see a recording here:
In this era of Brexit, the British Labour Party and the wider labour movement face the twin challenges of globalised capitalism on the one hand, and an upsurge in backward-looking nationalism on the other. Read on ...
Book Launch: Letters from England, 1895: Eleanor Marx and Edward Aveling
Monday, 7 December 2020 – 7:00pm
These never-before translated dispatches from London to a Russian journal by Eleanor Marx and Edward Aveling offer a unique insight into their lives and radical politics, and the Victorian England in which they wrote. Join us to celebrate and discuss this new contribution to socialist and feminist history, published by Lawrence Wishart. Read on ...
Book Launch – “The Defeat of Gilgamesh” by Greta Sykes
Thursday December 10th at 7pm [via Zoom]
This book presents an epic feminist narrative about ancient Mesopotamia. It tells the story of the beginning of writing, the spiritual world of the people, their harvest festivals and their close relationship with their gods. Taking the form of an adventure story, many details of life in the earliest known civilisation are depicted in a dramatic way. Read on ...
The Good Old Cause – Communist Intellectuals and the English Radical Tradition
By David Morgan
Issue Number 45 in the Occasional Publications series of the SHS
This is by no means the first time that “The Good Old Cause” has been used as the title of a publication with an historical theme of this kind. The Good Old Cause: English Revolution of 1640-1660 was the name given to a collection of political writings from the seventeenth century edited by Christopher Hill and Edmund Dell that first came out in 1949 as part of a series called History in the Making under the overall editorship of Dona Torr. Read on ...