Category: Past SHS Meetings
Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14
The Labour revolt that swept Britain in the years before the First World War was one of the most sustained outbreaks of industrial militancy and social revolt the country has ever experienced
The industrial militancy involved large-scale strikes by miners, seamen, dockers, railway workers and many others, and was dominated by unskilled and semi-skilled workers, many acting independently of trade-union officials.
Read on ... Unfinished business? The ongoing break-up of the USSR’
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When the USSR ceased to exist at the end of 1991, many observers remarked on how peaceful the break-up seemed to be, compared with the violent disintegration of the former socialist Yugoslavia then taking place in the Balkans. Read on ...
James Aldridge: the greatest post-war novelist you have never heard of
A Socialist History Society on-line talk with Helen Mercer.
James Aldridge’s novels are available on the Internet Archive website…
James Aldridge (1918-2015) was not the greatest post war novelist but several of his books were bestsellers in their day. His novel The Diplomat, set against the background of the Iran crisis of 1946, won him the World Peace Council prize in 1953. Read on ...
Louise Cripps Samoiloff by Christian Høgsbjerg
Christian Høgsbjerg launched his new publication for the Socialist History Society on March 27th at 7pm
Also speaking was Martin Samoiloff, Louise’s grandson
The book is available from Bookmarks bookshop…
This book introduces the remarkable life and work of Louise Cripps Samoiloff (1904-2001), an English born writer, journalist, publisher, historian and socialist who became an American citizen and was the author of over a dozen books, many of which articulated the case for the independence of Puerto Rico. Read on ...