What a long, strange trip it’s been.
An academic year of socialist history seminars on Zoom. A year of socialist history seminars at the Institute of Historical Research is complete. Far from meeting in Room 304 at the IHR in Senate House in Bloomsbury, they were all done virtually on Zoom.
Details of the seminars are below. Special thanks are due to the speakers who joined us on Zoom from Australia and Ghana. Suffice to say this would not otherwise have happened. Attendances too were hugely up, edging towards 100 for most seminars as opposed to the 15-30 that would be the usual in-person attendance. We probably had more and varied contributions from those attending than in-person seminars often get, including one made from a London bus, which would definitely not have happened previously. We will be continuing on Zoom at least for the autumn term 2021/22. Look out for provisional details.
List of London Socialist Historians Seminars held in 2020/21:
12 October 2020: Rhys Williams, Tom Mann and Australia: 1902 to 1909
9 November 2020: Mark Hailwood, ‘Between 5 and 6 of the clock’: Time-telling, Time-use and Timediscipline in Pre-industrial England’
7 December 2020: Keith Flett, 150 years since the death of William Cuffay black leader of London Chartism in 1848. Has he been ignored by socialist historians?
25 January 2021: Merilyn Moos and Steve Cushion, German working class resistance to the Nazis
22 February 2021: John Newsinger, Trump and the Christian Right: A Dark Side of American Exceptionalism
15 March 2021: Eibhlín Ní Chléirigh, Asking for the Moon: An investigation of memory and hope in activist movements
26 April 2021: Stella Dadzie A Kick In The Belly, on women, resistance and slavery.
24 May 2021: Simon Hannah, The Labour Parliament of 1854.
London Socialist Historians Seminars. Autumn Term 2021:
Seminars will be on Zoom. Details to follow nearer the time.
Monday 4 October, 5.30pm, Marika Sherwood, ‘The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their own history’ (George Orwell). What has been obliterated from ‘our’ history here in the UK and in what used to be our colonies?
Monday 18 October, 5.30pm - Book Launch: The Red and the Black: The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic
Monday 1 November 5.30pm Judy Meewezen, Turtle Soup & Cato St
Monday Nov 15th 5.30pm Merilyn Moos Anti-Nazi Exiles 1933-1945
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