London Socialist Historians Group
Autumn Term Seminars 2021 & Spring Term 2022
The London Socialist Historians seminars for the autumn term at the Institute of Historical Research concluded on Monday with a well-attended and highly relevant paper from Merilyn Moos on Anti-Nazi German socialists in Britain 1933-45. A link to the recording is below.
Seminars for the Spring term 2022 are likely to remain on Zoom, subject to a review meeting with the IHR on December 1st.
The first Spring 2022 seminar will be on Monday 31st January 2022
Speakers and dates are in the process of being agreed. We will certainly have John Newsinger on Ethel Mannin, novelist and supporter of the POUM in the Spanish Civil War. Duncan Stone author of the forthcoming Different Class, the untold story of English cricket will also be speaking during the term.
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From Reclaiming Our History to 1917 & the Black Atlantic, Cato St 1820 & Anti-Nazi Exiles 1933-1945
Monday Oct 4th 5.30pm Marika Sherwood George Orwell told us that ‘the most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their own history’. What has been obliterated from ‘our’ history here in the UK and in what used to be our colonies?
Monday Oct 18th 5.30pm Christian Hogsbjerg Red and Black. The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic. Book launch
Monday Nov 1st 5.30pm Judy Meewezen Turtle Soup and Cato Street 1820
Monday Nov 15th 5.30pm Merilyn Moos Anti-Nazi Exiles 1933-1945
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All meetings will be on Zoom again for the Spring term. A link to register and join will be circulated before each seminar
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