The Fiery Spirits: Popular Protest, Parliament and the English Revolution

A Socialist History Society public on-line meeting

Speaker: John Rees

Tuesday 17 March at 7pm
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The thrilling history of Parliament’s ‘fiery spirits’, whose actions led to the defeat of Charles I in the English Civil War and paved the way for the execution of the King in 1649

The Fiery Spirits tells the story of the MPs in parliament and the protestors in the streets who played a pivotal role in the English Civil Wars. Read on ...

Newsletter Autumn 2025

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Articles on:

  • How I Became a Socialist by David Morgan
  • Blood, Sweat & Tears – Photographs from the great miners’ strike 1984-1985
  • The Legacy of Slavery and the Case for Reparations – The launch of a Socialist History Occasional Publication
  • Book reviews
    • The Social Railway and Its Workers in Europe’s Modern Era, 1880-2023
    • Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World
    • The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
    • Eve Meets Dante – a novel by Greta Sykes
    • The Czech Refugee Trust Fund in Britain, 1938-1975.
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Defend Tom Alter

We, the committee of the Socialist History Society in the UK, condemn the unjust firing of tenured Associate Professor of History Thomas Alter by Texas State University, San Marcos.  This unjust firing is reminiscent of the dark days of McCarthyist witch hunts of socialists in the period of the Smith Act – and a threat to the basic human right to freedom of expression and organisation.  Read on ...

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

Socialist History Society public meeting on-line via Zoom
Tuesday 24th February 2026 7pm
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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. Read on ...