Childe Unbound
By Rowan Cahill What follows is in part a review, but also a commentary, and it benefits from the perspective of an insider. As Terry Irving notes in his Acknowledgements
WHAT THE LEFTY HISTORIAN DID ON HIS HOLS
Terry Irving We’ve just come back, Sue and I, from four weeks in France and Spain, a very different holiday from our usual. Without a car, we walked a lot,
History and the Working Class Now: the Collective Impulse, Tumult and Democracy
Terry Irving Terry Irving was invited to address the Sydney Historical Research Network in March 2017, as part of a session on ‘Histories of Class Now’. The other speakers were
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A SHELF OF REDS by Rowan Cahill and Terry Irving
A selection of some of the books by Australian radical historians that have meant a lot to us as scholars and activists writing and exploring radical history for ten years together,
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Radical History: Thinking, Writing and Engagement
By Terry Irving and Rowan Cahill Kicking away the props In recent years, in various places and on our blog “Radical Sydney/Radical History”, we have written about radical history.
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NIBS UNDERGROUND BOOK TALK – JOHN TULLY ON THE SILVERTOWN STRIKE
John Tully will give a talk on his 2014 book, Silvertown – The Lost Story of a Strike that Shook London and Helped Launch the Modern Labour Movement on Tuesday 10 February
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Australia’s radical tradition – Terry Irving and the Southern Tree of Liberty
In 2006 Terry Irving’s majestic The Southern Tree of Liberty – The Democratic Movement in New South Wales before 1856 was published by Federation Press. It is somewhat surprising, therefore, that eight
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‘Labour History’ and its Political Role – A New Landscape: by Terry Irving
We re-post here a thoughtful discussion by Associate Professor Terry Irving. Click here to view this post on the Radical Sydney blog. **** **** Terry Irving was co-author of Class Structure in
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