New education series: The battle for democracy in Britain and Ireland

The battle for democracy in Britain and Ireland: the history of republican ideas and their link to socialism

April 21
The Levellers and the English republic 1640s-1650s

April 28
The Glorious Revolution 1688-1707 and the origins of the contemporary British state

May 5
Edward Rushton, Thomas Paine, and republicanism in the 1790s

May 12
Peterloo 1819 and Shelley’s republicanism

May 19
SPECIAL MEETING ON THE UKRAINE WAR

May 26
William Cuffay, the Chartists and working class republicanism 1840s

June 2
Helen Macfarlane, the Chartists and working class republicanism in the 1840s

June 9
Challenging the state-republicanism in the 1860s and 1870s

June 16
Militant Irish republicanism from the Fenians to James Connolly

June 23
The Suffragettes and the struggle for women’s liberation