Category: Past SHS Meetings
AL MORTON MEMORIAL LECTURE 2024
Speaker
Dr Ariel Hessayon
24th September 2024
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About the speaker
Dr Ariel Hessayon is Reader in Early Modern History, Goldsmiths, University of London
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 ...
Raphael Samuel and People’s History
Perfidious Albion: Britain & The Spanish Civil War
Speaker Professor Paul Preston
The eminent historian, Professor Paul Preston, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the Spanish Civil War. He is the author of numerous books on modern Spain, the Spanish Republic, the war and its aftermath. In this talk, Paul will speak about his latest book, ‘Perfidious Albion’: Britain and the Spanish Civil War’ which is published by The Clapton Press. Read on ...