Newsletter Archive
The London Socialist Historians Newsletter is published three times a year.
Each issue of the London Socialist Historians Group Newsletter contains notices of seminars, conferences and other events, as well as articles of interest to socialist historians and, hopefully, others.
Articles published in the Newsletter can be viewed online, and each issue can be downloaded as a PDF file.
Issue 30 Lent term 2008: Reviews of Western Marxism and the Soviet Union by Marcel van der Linden, Joan Cowell's biography of Joseph Cowen and The Failure of a Dream by Gidon Cohen, reports of seminars and conferences and an article by Martin Spence on socialist local history.
Issue 29 Autumn term 2007: Reviews by Keith Flett of Alistair Campbell's diaries, by Ian Birchall of 1956 and All That, the book that came out of the LSHG conference on 1956, by Dominic Alexandre of Chris Wickham's Framing the Early Middle Ages, by Keith Flett of Malcolm Chase's Chartism: A New Historyand by David Renton of Harry Ratner's A Socialist at War, as well as a report by Dougal McNeill on his research into war literature..
Issue 28 Autumn term 2006: Neil Faulkner about his project with Pete Glatter to construct a grand narrative of the global crisis of 1914-21, a review by Tobias Abse of William Fishman's East End Jewish Radicals and Rudolf Rocker's The London Years, and a review by Geoff Brown of Dave Renton's When We Touched the Sky.
Issue 27 Summer term 2006: Keith Flett on eighty years after the General Strike and a review by Terry Ward of Kevin Murphy's Revolution and Counterrevolution - Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory.
Issue 26 Lent term 2006: Ian Birchall on writing socialist biography and by John Charlton on the reform demonstration in Newcastle in October 1819, together with a review of Barry Johnson's Nine Days That Shook Mansfield by Keith Flett and an article about the LSHG conference on 1956.
Issue 25 Autumn term 2005: Louis Raw discusses her new research on the 1888 Bryant & May strike, Nik Howerd writes on the origins of Japanese imperialism, and Pete Glatter writes on the 1905 centenary issue of Revolutionary History, together with a review by Neil Rogall of Ian Birchall's Sarte Against Stalinism..
Issue 24 Summer term 2005: An obituary of the Egyptian labour historian, Taha Sa'ad Uthmann, by Anne Alexander, a review of David Renton's books onClassical Marxism and Dissident Marxism by Nik Howard, and a review of David Black's new biography of Helen Macfarlane by Keith Flett..
Issue 23 Lent term 2005: A review by Julie Ford of Paul Gilroy's After Empire and Newton & Lenin on Revolutionary Intercommunalism and the Right of Nations to Self-determination, a review by Keith Flett of Hilda Kean'sLondon Stories, a report on the meeting organised by the LSHG at the recent European Social Forum and an article by Neil Faulkner on the formation of the Great War Archaeology Group.
Issue 22 Autumn term 2004: Andrew H Lee on the Tamiment Libary, together with reviews by Liz Willis of Stuart Christie's Granny Made Me an Anarchist and by Dave Renton of Mark O'Brien's When Adam Delved and Eve Span.
Issue 21 Summer term 2004: Rachel Cohen on women's history today in Britain and elsewhere, an article by Nik Howard on the political ideology of Kita Ikki and a review by John Geoffrey Walker of Michael Haynes' and Rumy Husan's A Century of State Murder.
Issue 20 Lent term 2004: Neil Faulkner on "Archaeology from below", an obituary by Ian Birchall of Al Richardson, editor of Revolutionary History, and reports on historians at the European Social Forum and on the conference held in November to mark the twentieth anniversary of the 1984-85 miners' strike.
Issue 19 Autumn term 2003: Dragan Plavsic on the Balkan socialist tradition (the subject of the latest issue of the journal Revolutionary History, a review by Roger Darlington of the collection edited by Keith Flett and David Renton, New Approaches to Socialist History, and a review by Keith Flett of Miles Taylor's new biography, Ernest Jones: Chartism and the Romance of Politics 1819-1869
Issue 18 Summer term 2003: an obituary of Christopher Hill by Keith Flett, a review of Archie Potts' Zilliacus: A Life for Peace and Socialism by Ian Birchall and a review of Stephen A Resnick & Richard D Wolff's Class Theory and History: Capitalism and Communism in the USSR by Mike Haynes, along with letters from Michael Herbert and Keith McClelland.
Issue 17 Lent term 2003: Neil Rogall on "Teaching the Israel/Palestine conflict", a report by Dave Renton on the memorial meeting for Royden Harrison, a news item on the arrest of socialist historian Leo Zeilig and an article by Keith Flett on "Telling the Truth about Hitler".
Issue 16 Autumn term 2002: a review by David Renton of Richard Evans' Telling Lies about Hitler, a review by Keith Flett of Gareth Stedman Jones' Introduction to the new edition of the Communist Manifesto, a review by Joe Fleming of Paul Martin's The Trade Union Badge and an article by Andrew Hemingway introducing the new seminar series on Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture.
Issue 15, Summer 2002: R. W. Davies on "Studying Soviet Economic History", an obituary of Roy Porter by Liz Willis, and reviews of Consensus or Coercion: the State, the People and Social Cohesion in Post-war Britain, by Black, Dawswell, Doye, Drake, Horner, Jenkins, Minion, Powell and Tracey, and of Calum Smith's Around the Peat-Fire.
Issue 14, Lent 2002: Anne Alexander on the historical background to George W. Bush's "war on terrorism", putting it in the context of western imperialism and resistance to western imperialism in the Middle East and Central Asia, and an article by Esther Leslie on "Mutinies", the latest issue of the journal Revolutionary History.
Issue 13, Autumn 2001: Dave Harker on the influence of Robert Tressell's novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, and a review by Keith Flett of Stephen Woodham's History in the Making - Raymond Williams, Edward Thompson and the Radical Intellectuals 1936-1956.
Issue 12, Summer 2001: Michael Cox on the intellectual relationship between E.H. Carr and Isaac Deutscher, and a review by Ian Birchall of Pamela Pilbeam's French Socialists before Marx.
Issue 11, Lent 2001: Ralph Darlington on a critical reassesment of revolutionary syndicalism; Ian Birchall on the work of the journal Revolutionary History; Sarah Glynn on Dave Renton's Fascism, Anti-Fascism and Britain in the 1940s; Keith Flett on the latest volume of the Dictionary of Labour Biography.
Issue 10, Autumn 2000: Glyn Powell on Black History Month; Alan Woodward on Fragments 2, the second publication in the oral labour history project conducted by Haringey Trades Council; Keith Flett on the work of E.H.Carr.
Issue 9, Summer 2000: Hilda Kean on Public History in Britain today; Stephen Roberts on Heronsgate: Happiness, Freedom and Contentment by Ian Foster (review).
Issue 8, Lent 2000: Keith Flett on history at the millenium.
Issue 7, Autumn 1999: Keith Flett on History, the Nation and the Schools ten years on; Stephen Roberts on Chartism Day 1999 (conference report).
Issue 6, Summer 1999: John Charlton on family history from the left; Keith Flett and John Walker on the Socialist History Network.
Issue 5, Lent 1999: Alan Woodward on Fragments, a local oral labour history book produced by Haringey Trades Council; Dave Renton on Walter Benjamin: A Biography by Momme Brodersen (review); Stephen Roberts on Chartism Day 1999 (conference report); a letter from Ian Birchall.
Issue 4, Autumn 1998: Neil Rogall on the work of the Subaltern Studiescollective; Andrew Hemingway on Magnetic Mountain by Stephen Kotkin (review); Keith Flett on the 150th anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 (conference report - see also the letter from Ian Birchall in issue 5).
Issue 3, Summer 1998: Ian Birchall on In Defence of History by Richard J. Evans (review); Liz Willis on an exhibition of the life and work of Mary Wollestonecraft and Mary Shelley (review).
Issue 2, Spring 1998: Eve Setch on the Feminist Library; Ian Birchall on the Babeuf Bicentenary Conference (conference report).
Issue 1, Autumn 1997: "Welcome to the LSHG newsletter" (editorial).