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Mulk Raj Anand’s Across the Black Waters : remembering Indian soldiers in WW1
Please join Man Booker Prize judge Alistair Niven for an evening to discuss the politics of Indian soldiers involvement in the First World War, as explored in Mulk Raj Anand’s recently republished classic book on the subject, ‘Across the Black Waters’.
Camden \ Cock Tavern \ History \ Louis Raw \ Meeting
Louis Raw at the Cock Tavern on ‘Bad Girls’ Who Changed the World
Louise Raw, author of the excellent “Striking a light” will be speaking on ‘Bad Girls’ Who Changed the World: Gender, Class, Sexuality the Matchwomen’s Strike
History \ London Socialist Historians \ Meeting
Killing Communists in Havana: 1947 and the start of the Cold War in Latin America
Seminars are in the Olga Crisp Room [104] at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1 . Free without ticket
Conway Hall \ History \ Meeting \ War
Norman Angell: Liberal, Radical, Socialist, Pacifist or Patriot? 30th September
Conway Hall Ethical Society presents… Norman Angell: Liberal, Radical, Socialist, Pacifist or Patriot? Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933, Norman Angell, journalist, peace pundit was a founding member of the “neutralist” Union for Democratic Control, Initially a Liberal from 1929-1931, he was Labour M.P. for Bradford The best-seller of 1910 that made Norman Angell’s […]
Green Lanes \ Haringey \ History \ Meeting \ War
When Green Lanes said ‘no’ to War in 1914 – 5th August
A re-enactment of the anti-war meeting held outside the Salisbury pub 100 years ago, when the First World War broke out (a bit of history and here). Come and hear from some of the characters who spoke out then – men who went on to be conscientious objectors, suffragettes who opposed the war, working people who […]
Author: Merilyn Moos \ Bloomsbury \ Hampstead \ History \ immigration \ MI5 \ Migrants \ Refugees \ secret service
Review: how we spied on the anti-Nazis who fled to Britain
Merilyn Moos Reviews “A Matter of Intelligence. M15 and the Surveillance of Anti-Nazi Refugees 1933-50” by Charmian Brinson and Richard Dove. We too often think of the consequences of Nazism as something far away from us. But many of the refugees who came to the UK between 1933 and 1939 ended up living in and […]
Alexandra Park \ Event \ Haringey \ History \ War
‘We Will Not Fight, We cannot Kill’ Alexandra Park Library 29th July
WW1 Conscientious Objectors. 2014 marks one hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War. The war claimed the lives of over 16 million people across the globe. Yet in the rush to claim history for military glory, the lives and trials of Conscientious Objectors often goes untold. Come and join us in hearing […]
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