{"id":1750,"date":"2024-11-08T12:07:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T12:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2025-06-05T09:53:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:53:58","slug":"a-l-morton-life-in-the-radical-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/?p=1750","title":{"rendered":"A. L. Morton: Life in the Radical Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9E5JoLDX9CQ?si=zA9kp_ncmy1Q1IJO\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>Speaker: <strong>James Crossley<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This talk provided an overview of Morton\u2019s life and work based on recent archival research. It covered the formative influences on Morton\u2019s political and intellectual development and contextualise his work in light of his membership of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Morton\u2019s main publications will be discussed, including <i>A People\u2019s History of England<\/i>\u00a0(1938) and\u00a0<i>The English Utopia<\/i>\u00a0(1952), explaining the shifting emphases between the two. The talk will continue with a reassessment of Morton\u2019s role as a historian of England, utopianism, and millenarianism.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>James Crossley<\/strong> is Professor and Director of the Critical Study of Millenarian and Apocalyptic Movements at the University of Cambridge, and research professor at MF Oslo. He is the author of the biography\u00a0<i>A. L. Morton and the Radical Tradition<\/i>\u00a0(Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: James Crossley This talk provided an overview of Morton\u2019s life and work based on recent archival research. It covered the formative influences on Morton\u2019s political and intellectual development and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings","category-members-publications","category-past-shs-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}