Audio
The first episode of a new series! Every Friday, Alan Woods
(editor of marxist.com) will be discussing the English Revolution: a colossal
event in world history that dealt an irreparable blow to feudal absolutism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYofvwHvNZM
Media
Christopher Thompson Article Kingdoms Come Apart appeared in
the April Issue of History Today- The path to Britain's Civil Wars of the 17th
century was paved in the three very different realms of England, Scotland and
Ireland. But it was in the richest and most populous of these that crisis
escalated into conflict.
American Historical Review publishes a letter on 1619 Project
by Tom Mackaman and David North-
The text of a letter written by Tom Mackaman, World
Socialist Web Site writer and historian, and David North, the chairman of the
World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board. It was published in the
April issue of the American Historical Review, the leading US journal of
academic historians. The letter responded to a column by AHR Editor Alex
Lichtenstein, published in the February issue of the AHR, defending the New
York Times’ 1619 Project and attacking the WSWS and the historians it had
interviewed for their criticism of the project's racialist reframing of
American history.
Brendan McGeever's Antisemitism and the Russian
Revolution: Distorting history in the service of identity politics-part one
and Part two by Clara Weiss-
New books
1.
Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis
Namier by David Hayton-Manchester University Press (27 Aug. 2019)
2.
The Decline of Magic: Britain in the
Enlightenment Hardcover – 14 Jan. 2020-by Michael Hunter-Yale
3.
James Harrington: An Intellectual Biography
Hardcover – 10 Oct. 2019-by Rachel Hammersley
4.
Charles I's Killers in America: The Lives &
Afterlives of Edward Whalley & William Goffe-By Matthew Jenkinson-Oxford
University Press 255pp £20
