Review by Hilary Barker This small collection of six essays by Dorothy Thompson, on English social history, starts with an interesting introduction in which the
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By Andy Ford Alfred Russell Wallace, who was born two hundred years ago, is today remembered, if at all, as a sort of shadow of
Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye Labour member) looks at a myth-busting book by Tariq Ali (2022 – Verso) This book, given to me as a
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Where is Britain Going? By Leon Trotsky.
Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye Labour member) discusses a socialist classic from 1925 and looks at its lessons for the labour movement today. The full
Andy Ford (Warrington South CLP member) continues his occasional series of articles on Soviet military history. [Title image reads – We stand in the Caucasus!]
By Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye Labour member) This Netflix drama series, The Crown, gives a historical account of the royal family from the last
By Cain O’Mahony This year marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the momentous Battle of Stalingrad (23rd August 1942), the costliest battle in
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Illegal to be me – homophobia in the Commonwealth.
Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye Labour Member) reviews Tom Daley’s documentary “Illegal to be me” on homophobia in the Commonwealth (see here). The diver and
This month marks the 75th anniversary of the partition of ‘British’ India, an event accompanied by enormous hardship and loss of life, as the subcontinent
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UK and US say China is a threat – a little history is in order!
Richard Mellor from the USA shares some thoughts on the Opium Wars of 1839-42 History is sort of important stuff: the history of anything, music,
