Tag: France

Commentary

The correspondence columns of the anarchist press: a place in labour history

Continuing our series on places in labour history, Constance Bantman explains why the back pages of French anarchist newspapers are her happy place. Much of my work focuses on piecing back together often elusive anarchist networks and understanding how they operated in the decades preceding the First World War, and so my happy place is the correspondence sections of anarchist periodicals, where groups and individuals … Continue reading The correspondence columns of the anarchist press: a place in labour history

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Commentary

Class Encounters: Antoinette Cazal, anarchist

In the seventh of our series on meetings with figures from labour history, Constance Bantman encounters the French anarchist Antoinette Cazal. Was Antoinette ‘Trognette’ Cazal (1862-1902) even a figure of the labour movement? Her entry in the biographic dictionary of the French labour movement, Le Maitron, describes her as ‘a seamstress; a brewery girl; an anarchist; a defendant in the [1894 anti-anarchist] Trial of the … Continue reading Class Encounters: Antoinette Cazal, anarchist

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Commentary

In tune: Des Métallos

In the third of our continuing series on labour history in song, Constance Bantman shares Massilia Sound System’s take on deindustrialization and gentrification in Marseille. Des MétallosMassilia Sound System (Massilia Sound System, 1995) Trust the famously political Marseillais reggae band Massilia Sound System to write a song dissecting the deindustrialization and gentrification of France’s second largest city and make a joyful banger out of it. … Continue reading In tune: Des Métallos

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Events

Transfers of socialism between France and Great Britain, and its popular reception, in the long nineteenth century

A one-day conference on ‘Transfers of socialism between France and Great Britain, and its popular reception, in the long nineteenth century’ will take place at the University of Tours, France, 8-9 February 2024. The call for papers is now closed. Please note that the conference proceedings are in French. Programme de la JEJeudi 8 février 2024 14h :J.-J. Tatin (U. Tours) : « Les textes … Continue reading Transfers of socialism between France and Great Britain, and its popular reception, in the long nineteenth century

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Bursary reports, Research bursaries

Left-wing, woman, aristocrat: in search of Elinor Bethell (1869-1943)

Dr Quentin Gasteuil explains how he tracked down Elinor Bethell, a little known British woman who played a leading role in the Labour Party in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, with help from an SSLH bursary. I came across the widely unknown character of Elinor Frances Bethell during my PhD research. When I first made archival contact with her, she was a British woman … Continue reading Left-wing, woman, aristocrat: in search of Elinor Bethell (1869-1943)

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Books etc

Artisans Abroad: British Migrant Workers in Industrialising Europe, 1815-1870

Fabrice Bensimon, Artisans Abroad: British Migrant Workers in Industrialising Europe, 1815-1870, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 304, h/b, £83, ISBN: 9780198835844. Between 1815 and 1870, when European industrialisation was in its infancy and Britain enjoyed a technological lead, thousands of British workers emigrated to the continent. They played a key role in sectors such as textiles, iron, mechanics, and the railways. These men and … Continue reading Artisans Abroad: British Migrant Workers in Industrialising Europe, 1815-1870

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Events, SSLH news

SSLH annual lecture 2021. Professor Máire Fedelma Cross: Flora Tristan and Jules Puech, a double biography

The French writer and activist Flora Tristan (1803-1844) was an important and original thinker noteworthy for her synthesis of feminism and socialism. But she died aged just 41, and left relatively little published work. Jules Puech (1879-1957) rediscovered Tristan as a postgraduate student in Paris in the early 1900s and subsequently devoted decades of his life to researching her life and work, publishing a detailed … Continue reading SSLH annual lecture 2021. Professor Máire Fedelma Cross: Flora Tristan and Jules Puech, a double biography

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The delights of exile: French anarchists in Victorian and Edwardian London

Their numbers were small but France’s revolutionary exiles were to have a significant impact on international politics, says Dr Constance Bantman, author of The French Anarchists in London, 1880-1914, now published in paperback. The history of the French anarchists exiled in London between the late 1870s and 1914 has long been treated like a footnote in the history of the French anarchist movement. Looking at … Continue reading The delights of exile: French anarchists in Victorian and Edwardian London

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