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
AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF LABOUR HISTORY (MELBOURNE BRANCH)
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
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,
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
Continue readingHistory and the Working Class Now: the Collective Impulse, Tumult and Democracy
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,
Continue readingA SHELF OF REDS by Rowan Cahill and Terry Irving
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.
Continue readingRadical History: Thinking, Writing and Engagement
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
Continue readingNIBS UNDERGROUND BOOK TALK – JOHN TULLY ON THE SILVERTOWN STRIKE
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
Continue readingAustralia’s radical tradition – Terry Irving and the Southern Tree of Liberty
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
Continue reading‘Labour History’ and its Political Role – A New Landscape: by Terry Irving