Socialist History Seminars at the Institute of Historical Research. October 2024-June 2025.
Below is a list of seminars for the 2024/5 academic year and recordings where they are available
Monday 7th October 2024 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 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 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 Bob Henderson, Lenin in London. Recording https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/D33p6N9Esx17Uo3ad6v2mMzrrnIaxOOTmIswMeGxXa7fEmVCKYfjeZodU7vt1NuH.waeuOJnYjQVPelZD
Monday 2nd December Aidan Beatty. Gerry Healy & the WRP. Violence, Gender & the Perils of Trotskyism. On Zoom. Not recorded
Monday 20th January 2025
Dr Tony Collins. Raising the Red Flag, Rethinking the roots of British Communism
In Person, Room 301, Institute of Historical Research
Monday 17th February
Danny Bee, Red Vienna, when taxes paid for housing
In Person, Room 301, Institute of Historical Research
Monday 3rd March
Mike Simons, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Forty Years on from the Great Miners Strike, can old images give us new insights. Recording
Monday 17th March
Toby Manning, The Pop Chart as an Archive. In Person
In Person Room 301 Institute of Historical Research.
Monday May 19th Laura Hadland, Beer Festival Evolution, a history: shaping the British beer landscape. Recording
Monday June 2nd Tony Collins, Rethinking the roots of British Communism
Recording
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