Remembering 'the mothers of Ryde' who lost their boys in WWI

This Mother's Day we think of all the mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts and sisters who lost their boys during the battles of World Wa...

Independent Working Class Education: Rebuilding the Plebs tradition

Update on Programme: May we invite you to this London IWCE Workshop? Email to book a place: iwceducation@yahoo.co.uk INDEPENDENT WORKING ...

Local History Fair at Mansfield Library, 19 May 2013

There is a FREE local history fair at Mansfield Library on Sunday 19 May, between 11am and 3 pm. There will be local history displays, scree...

Early Soviet Nursing by Susan Grant

In this month's post, Dr Susan Grant,  Irish Research Council CARA Mobility Postdoctoral Fellow, University College Dublin and Universit...

Meeting: Sylvia Pankhurst - Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire

Socialist History Society Meeting Wednesday 15 May 2013 7.00 p.m. Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH. Nearest station:...

"ADVENTURES IN THE WILD EAST" 7.30 SATURDAY

The story of the ETON MANOR BOYS CLUB MICHELLE JOHANSEN Bishopsgate Institute 7.30 SATURDAY 11 MAY NEWS FROM NOWHERE CLUB http://www.raymond...

Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire

The latest volume of the Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire has just been published. It includes the following article...