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 held on
Tuesday 24th February 2026 

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. Her most recent book is a history of the German Peasants’ War, the biggest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. Read on ...

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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