{"id":959,"date":"2020-03-25T18:34:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T18:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/?p=959"},"modified":"2025-01-04T20:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T20:07:20","slug":"deborah-lavin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/?p=959","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Lavin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-961\" src=\"http:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Debs.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Debs.jpeg 269w, https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Debs-135x150.jpeg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/>From David Morgan, Secretary of the Socialist History Society:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is with deep sadness that I have to inform everyone of the death of our comrade and friend, Deborah Lavin, a very active member, a serious historian and excellent speaker, who organised some excellent lecture series in recent years at Conway Hall. She will be much missed. Longer tributes will follow. RIP Deborah.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Deborah Lavin was an actress, stand up poet, playwright and most importantly for our purposes an independent historian, interested in the interface of radicalism, socialism and feminism in the 19th century. Deborah\u2019s short book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/?p=125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Charles Bradlaugh contra Karl Marx, Radicalism vs Socialism in the First International<\/em><\/a> was published by the Socialist History Society in 2011 and a review of the work in the LSHG Newsletter by Keith Flett can be <a href=\"http:\/\/londonsocialisthistorians.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/book-review-bradlaugh-contra-marx.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A number of talks by Deborah are available via youtube &#8211; see for example, her 2016 talk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e-mgKtUJ88g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Charles Bradlaugh and the Early Years of the National Secular Society&#8221; here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RIP Deborah and condolences from the Socialist Historian Society to her family, friends and comrades.<\/p>\n<p>Her website with more <a href=\"http:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">details of her life and work are here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From David Morgan, Secretary of the Socialist History Society: It is with deep sadness that I have to inform everyone of the death of our comrade and friend, Deborah Lavin,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","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=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}