A conference held on Saturday 3rd February 2007, at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HU

The Cold War, which began sixty years ago with the announcement of the Truman Doctrine and the creation of the Cominform, shaped the world in the second half of the twentieth century. Its most intense phase came to an end in the early sixties, but, with the accompanying threat of nuclear barbarism, it continued to exercise a major influence until the “collapse of Communism” in 1989.

We still live in a world formed by the Cold War. At the same time there are many parallels, as well as significant differences, with the current "war on terror". There are thus many important lessons to be drawn.

A conference held on Saturday 4th February 2006, at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HU

Nineteen fifty-six was the year of Khrushchev's secret speech, the year of the Russian invasion of Hungary and the Anglo-French invasion of Suez.

A conference held on Saturday 8th May 2004, at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HU

We are currently witnessing an expansion of US military power on a scale not seen since the Vietnam war - but, as historians, we know that Empires fall as well as rise.In this context, the London Socialist Historians Group organised a one-day conference to discuss the historical issues raised.

A conference held on Saturday 1st November 2003,at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1. Keynote speaker: Professor Vic Allen.

March 2004 marked the twentieth anniversary of the start of the 1984/5 British miners strike, one of the great labour struggles of the second half of the twentieth century. This conference seeked to mark the event by placing miners strikes and mining trade unionism in an historical and international perspective. It not only examined the British miners strikes of 1972, 1974 and 1984/5, but also related these conflicts to the longer history of coal-mining in Britain and attempted to put these epic labour struggles into an international perspective.

E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class revisited.

A one-day conference held on Saturday 10th May 2003, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1, with keynote speakers Dorothy Thompson and Bryan Palmer.

2003 marked the fortieth anniversary of the publication of one of the classics of socialist history, Edward Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class.

Precursors to Seattle: A history of mass movements against capitalism.

A one-day conference held on 11th May 2002 at the Institute of Historical Research.

Histories of racism, asylum and migration

In the context of daily attacks - both verbal and physical - against refugees and "asylum seekers", the London Socialist Historians Group called a conference on the theme of histories of racism, asylum and migration. It was held at the Institute of Historical Research on Saturday May 12th 2001.

A one-day conference held on Saturday May 6th, 2000, at the Institute of Historical Research.

A conference held on May 8th, 1999 at the Institute of Historical Research.

A book of this conference - The Twentieth Century: A Century of Wars and Revolutions, edited by Keith Flett and David Renton - has been published by Rivers Oram [ISBN 1 85489 126 X (hb) and ISBN 1 85489 127 8 (pb)].