IHR seminars > Socialist History

Socialist History

Convenors: Dr Keith Flett, Dr David Renton, Dr John Geoffrey Walker

Venue: Gordon Room (G34), Senate House, Ground floor


Time: Monday, 5.30pm

Spring Term 2012
9 January

Ian Birchall


The Missing founders. The early years of the French Communist Party

 

 

23 January

Nicole Ulrich (University of the Witwatersrand)


Direct Action and Colonial Rule in Eighteenth-Century Southern Africa: a survey of underclass protest

 

 

6 February

Merilyn Moos


From the personal to the political. Researching the German KPD

 

 

20 February

Manus McGrogan


The revolutionary left press after 1968

 

 

25 February

A History of Riots

 

Sean Creighton


From Revolution to New Unionism: the impact of Bloody Sunday on the development of John Burns' Politics

 

Neil Davidson


Riots around the Scottish Union negotiations in 1706 and the Global South today

 

Keith Flett


A History of the London Crowd

 

Prof John Newsinger (Bath)

 
The Memorial Day Massacre, a Chicago Police Riot

 

Please note: this session starts at 12:00 in room 349 Senate House, South block, 3rd floor

5 March

Lucian van der Walt (University of Witwatersrand)


Adding Red to the Black Atlantic: the Industrial Workers of Africa and International Socialist League's black revolutionary syndicalists and the South Africa Native National Congress's 1917-1920 radicalisation

 

 

19 March

Roberta Wedge


Mary Wollstonecraft: from journalist, socialist, to somewhere else on the political spectrum?

 

 

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