Category: Publications
‘Hot spots’ and ‘Heartlands’
Local histories of Britain’s War Resisters 1914-1918
The SHS hosted speaker Cyril Pearce for an online talk at 2pm, Saturday, 24th April.
If you wish to buy either of Cyril’s books books – Comrades in Conscience and Communities of Resistance – they are available from the publisher via the Francis Boutle website. Read on ...
SYLVIA PANKHURST IN AMERICA
A talk by Katherine Connelly hosted by the SHS On 15th April
About the speaker:
Katherine Connelly is a historian, writer and activist. The author of the biography Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire (Pluto Press, 2013), she most recently edited and introduced Pankhurst’s hitherto unpublished manuscript about her tours of the United States: A Suffragette in America: Reflections on Prisoners, Pickets and Political Change (Pluto Press, 2019). Read on ...
Book Launch – “The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology” by John Bellamy Foster
Sunday 14th February 2021
Speaker: John Bellamy Foster
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Twenty years ago, John Bellamy Foster’s Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature introduced a new understanding of Karl Marx’s revolutionary ecological materialism. Read on ...
German working class resistance to the Nazis
Our comrades in the London Socialist Historians Group have a meeting on Monday 25 January 2021, 5:30PM – 7:00PM
The resistance to the Nazi regime from within the German working class has been largely ignored or forgotten. Indeed, an argument has resurfaced that the nationalist nature of German history meant resistance was very unlikely. Read on ...