Socialist and Labour History

I am a socialist historian and labour historian, one of the convenors of the New Approaches to Socialist History seminar which is organised by the London Socialist Historians' Group and is held fortnightly during term time at the Institute of Historical Research in central London.

People interested in some of my own writing in socialist and labour history might want to have a look at:

'Past its Peak', International Socialism Journal 77 (1997), pp. 127-39.

'Class Consciousness and the Origins of Labour', International Socialism Journal 88 (2000), pp. 143-8.

'Not just Economics but Politics as well: Trade Unions, Labour Movement Activists and Anti-Fascist Protests 1945-51', Labour History Review 65/2 (2000), pp. 166-80.

'Reflections on a Collective Publication: Writing a Socialist History of Liverpool’, North West Labour History 25 (2001), pp. 48-54.

'Unsung heroes behind them: the labour history of Sidney Pollard', Labour History Review, winter 68/3 (2003), pp. 311-27.

'History and the anti-capitalist movement', paper given at the 2003 European Social Forum in Paris.

'Trade Union and Labour History: the South African contribution', Labour History Review, 69/2 (2004), pp. 241-6.

'History and the anti-capitalist movement', paper given at the European Social Forum in Paris (2003)

'E. P. Thompson: History and Commitment', New Correspondence 1/1 (2004), pp. 20-4