Seminar Papers
Papers presented to the New Socialist Approaches to History seminar, Institute of Historical Research
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- Evan Smith, "No Racist Immigration Laws: The CPGB, Immigration Controls and the State." Paper presented on 12th February 2007
- Susan Williams, "When Britain Backed Apartheid: Seretse Khama and the Harragin Inquiry of 1949" Paper presented on 13th November 2006
- Matt Perry, "Seventy Years since the Jarrow March." Paper presented on November 4th 2006
- Keith Flett, "Chartism after 1848." Paper presented on 9th October 2006
- Ian Birchall, "Writing Socialist biography: Some methodological problems - the biography of Tony Cliff." Paper presented on 10th October 2005.
- David Renton, "When We Touched The Sky: A History of the Anti-Nazi League." Paper presented on 6th June 2005
- Elaine Graham Leigh, "The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade 1209-1219." Paper presented on May 23rd 2005
- David Young, "Socialism and suburbia: a topography of activism before the First World War." Paper presented on March 12th 2005
- Eseoghene Okonedo, "Willam Edward Burghardt Du Bois: Recapturing the Black Soul ". Paper presented on November 22nd 2004
- Di Parkin, "Writing the struggle: Extracts from two women revolutionaries' letters in the mid 1970s." Paper presented on November 8th 2004
- Biachini Pascal, "The schooling process: a central issue to the development of social movements in Africa, 1960-2000."
- Keith Flett, "Miners Support Groups in London during the 1984/5 strike.". Paper presented on October 4th, 2004.
- Dominic Alexander. "The hermit and the crowd: or the social use and lordship’s abuse of holiness", Paper presented on April 24th, 2004.
- Paul Burnham, "The Squatters of 1946", Paper presented on February 23rd, 2004.
- Tim Sneller, "The British left and the Tito-Stalin split".Paper presented on February 9th, 2004.
- Colin Skelly, "James O'Brien: a Moral Force Chartist?". Paper presented on January 26th, 2004.
- Mike Haynes, "Joseph Stalin and the Harvest of Death". paper presented on December 6th, 2003.
- Pete Glatter, "Stalinism & centralisation".Paper presented on December 6th, 2003.
- Kate Quinn "Cuban culture and intellectuals in the age of perestroika ". Paper presented on November 10th 2003.
- Liz Willis, "The British Government, WMD, and spin, 1950s style: Whitehall's reaction to the threat of publicity over biological warfare 'sea trials'". Paper presented on Monday 6th October.
- Ian H Birchall, "Opposition to the French War in Indochina (1946-1954)". Paper presented on Monday 2nd June 2003
- Ben Marshall, "What Happened to the Britons? The impact of the search for ethnicity on our understanding of the period 410AD to 597AD". Paper presented on Monday 3rd March 2003
- Elaine Graham-Leigh, "Counts, Bandits and Peasants: Feudalism in Twelfth-Century Languedoc Reassessed". Paper presented on Monday 9th December 2002.
- Stephanie Cronin, "Abulqasim Lahuti and the Tabriz Insurrection, 1922". Paper presented on Monday 28th October 2002.
- Antonio Sonnessa, "Anti-fascism in Turin, 1921". Paper presented on Monday 14th October 2002.
Older papers have been removed. Many of these have been published, often in revised form. If you'd like to chase up a paper that has been presented in the past (a full list of which can been found from the back issues of the newsletter) and can't find out how to contact the author, please feel free to get in touch with the London Socialist Historians Group, organisers of this seminar.