Monday 7th October 5.30pm Rosalind Eyben, John Horner & the Communist Party, Uncomfortable Encounter with Truth. Recording https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/11a-rXdLrMk4n3kXvQ2xwWWqyi8fJ4qKxDWxwzUIhEuiTX1jDXU_iMd4yi22mJj6.HEFilCUPxIMi0LnS
Monday 21st October 5.30pm Fabrice Bensimon, The Chartist Meeting at Kennington Common, 10th April 1848. The daguerreotypes, the crowd and the coachman. In person, Room 301, Institute of Historical Research. Not recorded
Monday 4th November 5.30pm Gregor Gall, Mick Lynch. The Making & the Unmaking of a Working Class Hero? Recording https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/WgVBW_npMr75RoyRFPPtY_66mmRfXXomoZzMjVofQch1IhsnQTTeIL_NjXrSUxMA.VKlYXZZyetLYCdAF
‘Mick Lynch broke through into the public consciousness in the summer of 2022 as a ‘working-class hero’ in the fight against the cost-of-living crisis. He was able to generalise out of his members’ sectional disputes in a way that other union leaders were not. He was in the right place at the right time saying the right things but was he doing the right things? This talk, based upon my book (https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526173096/), will be a celebration and critique of Lynch as a union general secretary and social democrat, where his lack of strategic planning and support for the current Labour Party emerge as his two-sided Achille’s heel’.
Monday 18th November 5.30pm, Bob Henderson, Lenin in London. Recording https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/D33p6N9Esx17Uo3ad6v2mMzrrnIaxOOTmIswMeGxXa7fEmVCKYfjeZodU7vt1NuH.waeuOJnYjQVPelZD
Monday 2nd December 5.30pm, Aidan Beatty. Gerry Healy & the WRP. Violence, Gender & the Perils of Trotskyism. On Zoom. Not recorded
All seminars are free to attend. Registration required, details to follow. Organised by the Socialist HIstory Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research & the London Socialist Historians Group
Seminar listing for the Spring Term 2025 will be available shortly
Maurice Casy ahs written on Hotel Lux and an Irish woman who lived there and worked for the Comintern. You shoudl have Maurice give a talk. https://mauricejcasey.com/