Seminar, 20th May 1995
Institute of Historical Research
Senate House, Malet Street London WC1
After 1956 and particularly from 1968 there was a tremendous
awakening of socialist history. books by Edward Thompson and
Christopher Hill became best sellers and the historians
themselves became household names.
But in recent years socialist history has been under attack. the
collapse of Stalinism, the rightward drift of feminism,
postmodernism and the linguistic turn in social history have all
contributed to a crisis of confidence
More recently 'History Workshop' has chosen to drop its sub-title
of a 'journal of socialist & feminist historians'
This seminar examines a number of the discontents associated with
socialist history and, in a final session, attempts to point some
ways forward for socialist practice in history in the next few
years
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Programme:
9-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:45 Opening Address
9:45-11:15 Does social history still ignore politics
Keith Nield (Hull University)
11:15-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:45 Workshops:
a) How Natural is the Market
Helen Mercer Glasgow University)
b) 'Race', Unfree labour and social theory
Bob Carter Worcester College of Higher Education
12:45-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 The Feminist Challenge to Socialist History -
problems & queries
Sue Clegg - Northern Marxist Historians Group
15:00-15:15 Tea
15:15-16:30 Closing Plenary: Where Now for Socialist History ?
Organised by: London Socialist Historians Group & Comparative
Labour and Working Class History seminar
Registartion: Unwaged =A32 Waged =A35
Cheques to LSHG, 38 Mitchley Road London N17 9HG (0171-587-7839)
Accommodation can be arranged but only in advance
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Stephen Wakeford
email: Steverose@cityscape.co.uk