London Socialist Historians Seminars. Complete listing for 2022/23
Below is a listing of the seminars run by the socialist history seminar at the Institute of Historical Research 2022/23. We will resume in early October with a mixture of in person & Zoom seminars. Offers of papers, preferably featuring research in progress or recently published are welcome. Details via the London Socialist Historians website or @LSHGOfficial
The past we inherit the future we build so the 2022/23 seminar series is dedicated to UCU members fighting for decent terms and conditions in the academy against a hardline employer and to all those fighting for a better future
Autumn 2022
Mon 24th October 5.30pm. Keith McLoughlin. The British Left and the Defence Economy: competing visions of social democracy.
Mon 7th November 5.30pm Jane McChrystal and Anne Padfield. The Splendid Mrs McCheyne & the East London Federation of Suffragettes.
Mon 21st November 5.30pm. Catherine Howe, Chartism in London in 1848. Postponed. Further date tba
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
Monday February 13th 5.30pm John Foot, The Left and Italian Fascism. Violence and Victims?
Monday February 20th 5.30pm, Judy Greenway, ‘A Poet among the Social Reformers’: Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne, Suffragist, Socialist and Freethinker.
Monday March 6th 5.30pm Merilyn Moos, Living With Shadows. A memoir of a daughter of German Anti-Nazi activists.
Summer Term Seminars 2023
Monday 15th May 5.30pm Keith Flett: The Coronation. Inventing and Reinventing Royal Traditions.
Monday 22nd May 5.30pm Duncan Stone: Gentlemen v Players 60 years on. Deconstructing the Gentleman Amateur
Monday 5th June 5.30pm Ralph Darlington, Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-1914. In person seminar only Room 301. Institute of Historical Research
Check the London Socialist Historians website for updates
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