Throughout this 40th anniversary year of the miners’ strike, Left Horizons has published regular bulletins on important issues and developments that occurred during the strike
Category: Historical
By Maureen Wade.(Chair, Birmingham UNISON retired members’ section) This year, International Women’s Day coincides with the 170th anniversary of the birth of Eleanor Marx, the
By Andy Ford One of the best-known books in the English language is Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
The latest in our occasional series of articles by Andy Ford on 80-year anniversaries of events in WW2 in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Miners’ Strike 1984-5 – Weeks 42-47 Update
Throughout this 40th anniversary year of the miners’ strike, Left Horizons will publish regular bulletins on important issues and developments that occurred during the strike
My memories of the miners’ strike, forty years later
By Richard Mellor in California I owe John Throne, (Sean O’Torrain) a debt of gratitude for getting me on the bus at Wembley and sending
By Andy Ford Yesterday marked the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz by the Red Army. To mark this
Andy Ford continues his occasional series on the 80-year anniversaries of events in World War Two in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. ******* In
By Chandani Natalia (From Facebook) With Yom haShoah – the main Holocaust remembrance day, marked by Jews, Roma and other victims alike – just around
The Russian Revolution of 1905
This months marks 120 years since the outbreak of revolution in Tsarist Russia. It actually began on January 9 1905, but, as this article shows,
