Socialist History Seminars Spring Term 2023
Monday January 23rd 5.30pm Steve Cushion. The Drax Family Dynasty and the Business of Slavery: Reparations for Enslavement as a Trade Union Issue. Book https://www.history.ac.uk/events/drax-family-dynasty-business-slavery-reparations-enslavement-a-trade-union-issue
Monday February 13th 5.30pm John Foot, The Left and Italian Fascism. Violence and Victims? Book https://www.history.ac.uk/events/left-italian-fascism-violence-victims
Monday February 20th 5.30pm, Judy Greenway, ‘A Poet among the Social Reformers’: Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne, Suffragist, Socialist and Freethinker. Book https://www.history.ac.uk/events/a-poet-among-social-reformers-elizabeth-gibson-cheyne-suffragist-socialist-freethinker
Monday March 6th 5.30pm Merilyn Moos, Living With Shadows. A memoir of a daughter of German Anti-Nazi activists. Book https://www.history.ac.uk/events/living-shadows-a-memoir-a-daughter-german-anti-nazi-activists
I will be talking about how my memoir, through a series of evocative vignettes, casts light on the impact of being the child of activist political refugees from Nazi Germany. It is often supposed that a person born in the UK will not feel like an outsider but this talk will consider how far the shadow of the past shaped my lived experience and sense of being as well as the contrary ways by which I became a revolutionary
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