London Socialist Historians Group
Historians back Peoples Assembly protest on 26th June. Time to end the Tories war on history
The London Socialist Historians Group which organises the socialist history seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London has backed the People’s Assembly demonstration on Saturday 26th June.
The demonstration assembles at noon at Portland Place in central London and is focused on calling the Government to account for its anti-working class policies in every area.
The historians say they are particularly concerned at the Tories wide ranging war on history.
The move to end history teaching at the new ‘non-elite’ Universities will not only deny working-class students the chance to study the subject it also puts jobs of lecturers under threat.
The Tory offensive on history goes far wider though.
The Government has made numerous efforts to stop the real history of the slave trade from being told, including threats to remove funding from institutions that decide to act on statues of slave traders.
It has also promoted a version of flag waving British history that far from achieving the alleged aim of looking at the entire breadth of national history and its imperial contexts in fact tries to deliver an entirely one-dimensional version of the matter
LSHG Convenor Dr Keith Flett said, With their Culture Wars the Tories are obsessed with a certain kind of history, one that overlooks or explains away the racism and imperialism that is the centre of much British history. We are backing the People’s Assembly demonstration and the aim of calling the Tories to account. It’s more than time after 15 months of the pandemic that it was done.
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