Casualties of History: Carrying Brickbats and Stones

In this episode, we talk with historian and socialist-feminist Sheila Rowbotham about her own political and intellectual development. Rowbotham was a close friend of Edward and Dorothy Thompson, a participant in the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and a prominent political writer and historian. We also discuss Chapters 12 and 13: the different meanings of discipline in working-class life, the Irish presence, and class-struggle elections in ninteenth-century Westminster. References: Sheila Rowbotham, Hilary Wainwright, and Lynne Segal, Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism (https://books.google.com/books/about/Beyond_the_Fragments.html?id=OlYqAAAAYAAJ&source=kp_book_description) Sheila Rowbotham, Woman's Consciousness, Man's World (https://www.versobooks.com/books/1768-woman-s-consciousness-man-s-world) Sheila Rowbotham, Women, Resistance, and Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World (https://www.versobooks.com/books/1558-women-resistance-and-revolution) Sheila Rowbotham, Hidden from History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It (https://www.plutobooks.com/9780904383560/hidden-from-history/) "How Science Can Tell If Your Great-Grandparents Were Strikebreakers" https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/12/inquiring-minds-christine-kenneally/ Black Dwarf https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/black-dwarf/index.htm