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.

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Christopher Hill: the life of a radical historian

Speaker: Michael Braddick
A Socialist History Society on-line meeting on 7 October 2025

Christopher Hill was one of the leading historians of his generation. His work across more than fifteen books and dozens of articles fundamentally rewrote the way we understand the English Revolution and the development of the modern British state. Read on ...