The final socialist history seminar of the academic year at the Institute of Historical Research took place on June 3rd. Organised by the London Socialist Historians Group the seminar will return in the autumn for the 2024/25 academic year, the 30th anniversary.
It has been a momentous year for bad and good reasons. The Israeli genocide in Gaza and the global movement in solidarity with Palestinians that has grown. History is being made even as the seminar series looked at previous histories
Chartism in London in 1848 Catherine Howe Monday 9th October Time: 5.30pm
Rugby: William Webb Ellis, his role in the class struggle Tony Collins Monday 23rd October 5.30pm
The Spark That Lit the Flame. Lenin in London Robert Henderson Monday 6th November 5.30pm. Free on Zoom. Postponed
The Making of the English Working Class at 60. Roundtable discussion Logie Barrow, Keith Flett Monday 20th November
Doctor Who and the Communist: the work and politics of Malcolm Hulke TV scriptwriter Michael Herbert Date: Mon 22 January Start time: 1730
‘Hen Chartists’ and ‘Vulgar Viragos’: Rethinking the role of women in the Chartist Movement Judy Cox Date: Monday 5th February Start time: 5.30pm
Transnational Perspectives on French Anarchism(1880-1918), Biography, Networks and Print Culture Constance Bantman Date: Monday 4th March
The Great Defiance. How the World Took On The British Empire David Veevers(Bangor) Date: Monday 18th March Start time: 5.30pm
Monday May 20th 5.30pm on Zoom
Benjamin Schoendorff The Socialist Alternatives experiment: an 1980s attempt to search for a new revolutionary subject
Monday June 3rd 5.30pm
Colm Murphy. The forgotten rival of Marxism Today: The British Labour Party’s New Socialist and the business of political culture in the late Twentieth Century
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