The Latest From The British Leftist Blog-Histomat: Adventures in Historical Materialism

Click below to link to the Histomat:Adventures in Historical Materialism blog  

http://histomatist.blogspot.com/

Markin comment:

While from the tenor of the articles, leftist authors featured, and other items it is not clear to me that this blog is faithful to any sense of historical materialism that Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin or Leon Trotsky would recognize I am always more than willing to "steal" material from the site. Or investigate leads provided there for material of interest to the radical public-whatever that seemingly dwindling public may be these days.

Additional Markin comment:

I place some material in this space which may be of interest to the radical public that I do not necessarily agree with or support. Off hand, as I have mentioned before, I think it would be easier, infinitely easier, to fight for the socialist revolution straight up than some of the “remedies” provided by the commentators in these entries. But part of that struggle for the socialist revolution is to sort out the “real” stuff from the fluff as we struggle for that more just world that animates our efforts.

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History After Hobsbawm Conference Reports, Reviews and Podcasts

From 29 April to 1 May 2014, about 300 historians and scholars from around the world assembled at the History After Hobsbawm conference at Senate House in London. It was hosted by Birkbeck, the Institute for Historical Research and Past & Present.
The aim was to explore what we are currently doing as socially-committed historians, where we are headed, and what it means to be an historian in the twenty-first century. Although many at the event celebrated and critiqued the path-breaking work of Eric Hobsbawm, the primary aim was to explore where the study of history is currently heading.
We are extraordinarily pleased with the level of conversation generated by the event, both at the conference itself and well beyond. There has been coverage of the discussion in the press, on twitter and here on the conference blog. We have assembled some of these reports and recordings below.

Conference reports and reviews

• Guy Collender, ‘How Hobsbawm shaped history’
• Stef Eastoe, ‘Economic History and Material Culture: Margot Finn, John McAleer, Pat Hudson’
• Stef Eastoe, ‘Stories of Family and Class in Modern Britain: Jon Lawrence, Alison Light, and Julie-Marie Strange’
• Mark Hailwood, ‘In Search of Post-Marxism’
• David Hitchcock, ‘Gareth Stedman Jones on Marxism’
• Emma Lundin, ‘Mark Mazower on Hobsbawm and the historical profession’
• Emma Lundin, ‘Britain, Empire, Europe: Antoinette Burton, Maya Jasanoff, Jan Rüger’
• Lucy Robinson, ‘The History of the Falklands after Hobsbawm’
• Hillary Taylor, ‘Marxist and Post-Marxist Social History – Lucy Robinson, Jane Whittle and Andy Wood’
• Robert Stearn, ‘What happened to Class? Sean Brady, Sonya Rose, Marjorie Levine-Clark’
• Brodie Waddell, ‘The Seventeenth-Century Crisis: John Elliott, Geoffrey Parker and Sanjay Subrahmanyam’
• Janet Weston, ‘Catherine Hall on Gendering Property, Racing Accumulation’
• Janet Weston, ‘Peter Bailey on The Other Captain Swing: Eric Hobsbawm and Jazz’
• Janet Weston, ‘Latin America and Global Environmental History: Paulo Drinot, Alan Knight, Joan Martinez Alier

Postcasts at Backdoor Broadcasting

• Recordings of plenary lectures by Gareth Stedman Jones, Chris Wickham, Maxine Berg, Rana Mitter, Peter Bailey, Catherine Hall, and Geoff Eley.