- The Age of Empire 1875 - 1914
Resource Type: Book Published: 1996 Covers the rise of bourgeois society, the growth of free market capitalism and the expansion of European colonialism abroad.
- Age of Extremes
The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991 Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
- An Agreement of the Free People of England
Manifesto of the Levellers Resource Type: Article Published: 1649 The Levellers were an informal alliance of agitators and pamphleteers who came together during the English Civil War (1642-1648) to demand constitutional reform and equal rights under the law. Levellers believed all men were born free and equal and possessed natural rights that resided in the individual, not the government. They believed that each man should have freedom limited only by regard for the freedom of others. They believed the law should equally protect the poor and the wealthy.
- Ancestors of the Proletariat
Tercentenary of the English Revolution: 1649-1949 Resource Type: Article Published: 1949 After Charles I had been executed, the Levellers aimed directly at the overthrow of the military government of Cromwell in the name of the people. The great political act of the abolition of the monarchy, dramatized in the execution of the King, was in their eyes entirely subordinate to the positive reorganization of society.
- Arthur & George
Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 A novel about Aruthur Vonan Doyle.
- An Atlas of Rural Protest In Britain 1548-1900
Resource Type: Book Published: 1983 This volume surveys, compares, and contrasts a range of rural riots in Britain, including land protests, food riots, turnpike disturbances, militia protests, and protests by agricultural labourers. The volume includes seventy-maps which together demonstrate the shifting geography of protest, illustrating how the distribution of protest changed over time and how certain forms of protest changed as Britain developed from a feudal to a capitalist society.
- Austerity Britain, 1945-1951
Resource Type: Book Published: 2008 A review of the period immediately after World War Two in Britain illustrating the measures taken to rebuild the country and its economy.
- The Battle of Cable Street
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Eighty years ago this week, anti-fascists in East London confronted Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts as they tried to march though what was then a largely Jewish area. Mosley's British Union of Fascists was notorious for using marches and rallies as cover for vicious attacks on Jews. The confrontation has gone down in folklore as 'The Battle of Cable Street'.
- The Blackest Streets
The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum Resource Type: Book Published: 2008
- Britain - Its contribution to Socialism, Marxism and Workers' Organisation
Resource Type: Article Links to writings from the history of the British Isles, relevant to the development of socialist ideas and Marxism.
- British Biographical Index
Resource Type: Book
- The British Camps
Though it reached its horrific heights at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the British, not the Nazis, pioneered the concentration camp. Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Today, the expression "concentration camp" evokes the horrors of Nazi Germany, conjuring up black-and-white images of Auschwitz and Belsen. But Germans were neither the first nation to make use of concentration camps nor the last.
- The Charter of the Forest
Resource Type: Article Published: 1225 A complementary document to the Magna Carta of 1215, defining the rights of vassals, freemen, and serfs, reducing penalties, and restoring common land taken by the Crown.
- Chartism
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century between 1838 and 1850 which takes its name from the People's Charter of 1838.
- Commonwealth of Thieves
The Improbable Birth of Australia Resource Type: Book Published: 2006 A history of the first four years of the convict settlement in Australia, examining the interplay of soldiers, convicts, and Aborigines.
- The Condition of the Working Class in England
Resource Type: Book Published: 1845
- Cromwell and the Levellers
Tercentenary of English Revolution: 1649-1949 Resource Type: Article Published: 1949 Levelers were a loose organisation of kindred political thinkers who from stage to stage expressed the rapidly developing political consciousness of a great social and political mass movement.
- Decline of the English Murder
And Other Essays Resource Type: Book Published: 1981 A collection of essays by George Orwell.
- Democracy in the British Army
Resource Type: Article Published: 1939
- Destroying the Commons
How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Our rights and liberties are under ever-increasing attack.
- Diggers
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article An English group of agrarian communists in the 17th century.
- The End of Parliamentary Socialism
From New Left to New Labour Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 Argues against the assertion that there is no alternative to neo-liberalism. This account of the British Labour Party's recent history argues that Tony Blair's modernizing tendency was profoundly mistaken in asserting that the only alternative to traditional social democracy and narrow parliamentarianism was an acceptance of neo-liberalism.
- Engels, Manchester and the Working Class
Resource Type: Book Published: 1974 An account and interpretation of the writing of Friedrich Engels' first major work, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844.
- English coffeehouses in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Describes the origins, the popularity, and the decline of the English Coffeehouse.
- The English Peasantry in the Later Middle Ages
The Ford Lectures for 1973 and Related Studies Resource Type: Book Published: 1975 Investigates the question of whether or not peasants might be considered their own social class.
- The English Revolution
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article The period of the English Civil Wars and Commonwealth period 1640-1660, in which Parliament challenged King Charles I's authority, engaged in civil conflict against his forces, and executed him in 1649.
- The Fight for Freedom for Women
Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 The fight for women's rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, primarily focusing on Britain and the USA.
- General Strike of 1842
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article The strike started among the Staffordshire miners and soon spread through the country affecting factories, mills and coal mines from Dundee to South Wales and Cornwall.
- George Orwell: A Life
Resource Type: Book Published: 1980 A biography of George Orwell.
- Germany and Britain: Memory and Myopia
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Ernst Barlach was one of Germany's great expressionist artists of the early twentieth century. A virulent nationalist in the run-up to the First World War, Barlach found that his experience of the Western Front stripped him of his jingoism. Much of his subsequent work explored the sorrow and suffering that he saw as the human condition.
- The Great Transformation
The political and economic origins of our time Resource Type: Book Published: 1968 Polanyi analyzes the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood not as discrete elements, but as a single human invention he calls the "Market Society".
- Hegemony or Survival
America's Quest for Global Dominance Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
- Hidden Agendas
Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.
- Hill, Christopher
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article English Marxist historian and author. (1912-2003).
- Hill, Christopher - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article Writings of Christopher Hill (1912-2003).
- The History of Democracy
A Marxist Interpretation Resource Type: Book Published: 2013 Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately from the social and economic contexts in which democratic states operate.
- The History Thieves
Secrets, Lies, and the Shaping of a Modern Nation Resource Type: Book Published: 2016 Ian Cobain uncovers the role of secrecy in the British state - and the lies, omissions and misrepresentations we've been fed to maintain the facade of a fair and just Britain.
- The History Thieves - Review
How Britain covered up its imperial crimes Resource Type: Book Published: 2016 A review of Ian Cobain's book The History Thieves, an engrossing study which identifies secrecy as a 'very British disease', exploring how, as the empire came to an end, government officials burned the records of imperial rule.
- How the aristocracy preserved their power
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 After democracy finally shunted aside hereditary lords, they found new means to protect their extravagant riches. For all the modern tales of noble poverty and leaking ancestral homes, their private wealth and influence remain phenomenal.
- I May Be Some Time
Ice and the English Imagination Resource Type: Book Published: 1996 Spufford explores the British obsession with the world's coldest and bleakest climes, using their literary representation as his guide.
- Inclosure Acts
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A series of United Kingdom Acts of Parliament which enclosed open fields and common land in the country. This meant that the rights that people once held to graze animals on these areas were denied.
- The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Resource Type: Book Published: 2001 Now in its second edition, this landmark book provides an intellectual history of the British working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy Resource Type: Book Published: 1977 A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
- Liberty Against the Law
Some Seventeenth-century Controversies Resource Type: Book Published: 1996
- The Life of Bertrand Russell
Resource Type: Book Published: 1975 A biography of the political activist, philosopher and mathematician.
- Lilburne, John
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article English political agitator before, during and after English Civil Wars 1642-1650. (1614-1657).
- The Long Revolution
Resource Type: Book Published: 1965
- Luddites
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A social movement of British textile artisans in the early nineteenth century who protested - often by destroying mechanized looms - against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which were leaving them without work.
- The Magna Carta
Resource Type: Article Published: 1215 The Magna Carta consists of concessions wrung from the unwilling King John by his rebellious barons in 1215. It established for the first time a very significant constitutional principle: that the power of the king could be limited by a written grant.
- Manchester's Radical History
Exploring Greater Manchester's Grassroots History Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Manchester Radical History Collective is a small group of politically active people living in Manchester. We share an interest in the citys radical and grassroots history the local struggles and campaigns that have shaped the city of Manchester and the towns that make up Greater Manchester, and the people that live in them. And were inspired by the way that Manchesters people have maintained a spirit of independence and resistance which has endured down the years.
- Maps of Britain and Ireland's ancient tribes, kingdoms and dna
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Looks into the various territories and DNA evidence in Britan and Ireland and analyzes maps of these territories.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 4
Marx and Engels 1844 - 1845 Resource Type: Book Published: 1845 Includes The Holy Family, or Critique of Critical Criticism, and The Condition of the Working-Class in England.
- A Marxist History of the World part 41: 1640-1645: revolution and war in England
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 The attempt to impose Absolutism by Charles I led to a revolutionary civil war in which the King would be executed - Neil Faulkner looks at the English Civil War.
- A Marxist History of the World part 42: The Army, the Levellers, and the Commonwealth
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Neil Faulkner looks at how even the most radical bourgeois forces, if they are to preserve their property and status, must break the momentum of the movement that has brought them to power.
- A Marxist History of the World part 43: Colonies, slavery, and racism
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Capitalist contradictions were most evident in the 18th century, when the wealth of the merchant-capitalist class of Britains port-cities was contrasted with the untold human misery of the slaves, ramping up the historical significance of racist ideology.
- A Marxist History of the World part 44: Wars of empire
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 The English Revolution transformed Britain into a capitalist economy engaging in geopolitical competition. Neil Faulkner looks at how Britain became the dominant global superpower of the 19th Century.
- A Marxist History of the World part 45: The Enlightenment
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 What gave the Enlightenment its subversive, politically corrosive character was its critique of institutions and practices which appeared comparatively irrational in the light of modern thinking, argues Neil Faulkner.
- A Marxist History of the World part 46: The American Revolution
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 In 1764, Americans thought of themselves as British subjects of King George III. By 1788, they would, by their own decisions and actions, have made themselves the free citizens of a new republic forged in revolution and war.
- A Marxist History of the World part 50: The Industrial Revolution
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Frederick Engels was sent to Manchester, centre of the Industrial Revolution, to dispel his radicalism. Instead it made him the revolutionary he is remembered as today, Neil Faulkner explains.
- Midland Revolt
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A popular uprising which took place in the Midlands of England in 1607.
- Never had it So Good
A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles Resource Type: Book Published: 2005
- On E.P. Thompson's Legacy
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 In a tribute to E.P. Thompson, Cohen gives insights into his work "The Making of the English Working Class" regarding its valuable focus on the self-activity and self-organization of the people.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016
Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appearance of democratic legitimacy for the profoundly undemocratic structures of the EU. The gambit turned out to be a spectacular miscalculation, as millions of people turned out to express their opposition to a state of affairs that is leaving the majority worse off while enriching a small minority. This issue of Other Voices looks at the Brexit referendum, elite loathing for democracy, and the related attempt to get rid of Labour's leftwing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017
Secrecy and Power Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2017 Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power.
- Palestine is a loud echo of Britain's colonial past - and a warning of the future
Resource Type: Article Published: 2022 In moving from Nazareth back to the UK, I have stepped out of the frying pan and into the fire.
- Paper-contestations and Textual Communities in England 1640 - 1675
Resource Type: Book Published: 2005
- The Penguin Atlas of Modern History (to 1815)
Resource Type: Book
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
Resource Type: Book Published: 1974
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
Resource Type: Book Published: 1978
- The People's Charter
Resource Type: Article Published: 1839 The Chartists' Peoples Charter of 1839.
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- The People's Petition
Resource Type: Article Published: 1838 The Chartist Petition of 1838.
- The politics of display
The redesign of the Ashmolean in Oxford provides a chance to reflect on how we understand the meaning of collections Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is the oldest museum in Britain, founded in 1693. The institution has grown, thanks to a new postmodern building by architect Rick Mather. The open concept design of the new galleries is perfect for the curatorial focus on the impact of trade and the legacy of intercultural exchange titled "Crossing Cultures Crossing Time".
- Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Resource Type: Book Published: 2013 Against the thesis that Western subalterns are made of different stuff, Chibber argues that human beings are, at their core, not that different across contexts. The winds of history and culture may change many things, but not human constitutions. His defense of this argument sets the stage for a deliberate, careful explication of the key tenets of historical materialism. This argument is that humans, everywhere, take an interest in defending their well-being and their dignity.
- The Print Shop Window
Resource Type: Website A blog about Georgian caricature and satirical print culture in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
- The Road to Wigan Pier
Resource Type: Book Published: 1937 George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
- Scargill, Arthur
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article British trade unionist and political party leader. (Born 1938).
- The Scramble for Africa
White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 Describes the brief vicious scramble by Europe's imperial powers to seize colonies throughout the continent of Africa. Pakenham strips the impresarios of imperialism of their veneer of Victorian heroism and reputations for statemanlike vision, to reveal them as men with bloated and often vicious egos.
- Seeds of Fire
A People's Chronology Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
- The Slave Trade
The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870 Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
- The Socialist Register 1985/1986
Volume 22: Social Democracy and After Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1986
- Staying Power: The history of black people in Britain
Resource Type: Book Published: 2010 Peter Fryer reveals how Africans, Asians and their descendants, previously hidden from history, have profoundly influenced and shaped events in Britain over the course of the last two thousand years.
- The Story of English
Resource Type: Book Published: 1992
- Studies in the Development of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book Published: 1968 A Marxist interpretation of economic development in the period of modern capitalism. Starting with the decline of serfdom, the book deals with the beginnings of the bourgeoisie in the rising urban communities of Europe, with the growth of industrial investment, and with monopoloy in its various forms as a crucial instrument in the growth of capitalism.
- To the Ends of the Earth
Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 A history of Scotland's diaspora, and a critique of some of the myths that surround it.
- A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
Resource Type: Book Published: 1978
- Ukip: the battle for Britain
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 A exposé on Ukip, which wonders: is it a lunatic fringe or a sign of things to come?
- United Kingdom general strike of 1926
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article The 1926 General Strike in the United Kingdom was a general strike called by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in an unsuccessful attempt to force the government to act to prevent wage reduction and worsening conditions for coal miners.
- UK miners' strike (1984 - 1985)
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Published: 1985 A major industrial action affecting the British coal industry.
- Victorian People
A Reassessment of Persons and Themes 1851-1867 Resource Type: Book Published: 1967
- The War after the War
Resource Type: Book Published: 1973
- Who Could Ever Feel Pride in the Balfour Declaration?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Although the Balfour Declaration itself has been parsed, de-semanticised, romanticised, decrypted, decried, cursed and adored for 100 years, its fraud is easy to detect: it made two promises which were fundamentally opposed to each other -- and thus one of them, to the Arabs (aka "the existing non-Jewish communities"), would be broken.
- Winstanley, Gerrard
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article English Protestant religious reformer and political activist, a member of the True Levellers. (1609-1676).
- Winter of Discontent
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A term used to describe the British winter of 1978-1979, during which there were widespread strikes by local authority trade unions demanding larger pay raises for their members.
- Working Class Communism
A Review of the Literature Resource Type: Book Published: 1971
- The World Turned Upside Down
Radical Ideas During the English Revolution Resource Type: Book Published: 1984 Hill looks at radical groups such as the Diggers, Levellers, Ranters, and others, whose ideas threatened to overturn the established order in the mid-seventeenth century.
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