VIDEOS

FROM THE RISING TIDE TO GOVETT'S LEAP: THE SOCIALIST LIFE OF GORDON CHILDE

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BLACKHEATH HISTORY FORUM - VERE GORDON CHILDE ANNUAL LECTURE 2020 - TERRY IRVING

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Originally streamed live: 14 November 2020

Due to the Coronavirus outbreak the planned book launches in Australian capital cities have been postponed. In the meantime, Terry and Dr Rowan Cahill filmed a discussion on The Fatal Lure of Politics - The Life and Thought of Vere Gordon Childe, on 2 May 2020.

THE IMPORTANCE OF CHILDE – WRITING THE BOOK – THE NEO-LIBERAL UNIVERSITY – PETER GATHERCOLE

THE BOOK’S STYLE – THE FIRST GENERATION OF BRITISH LABOUR HISTORIANS – RADICAL HISTORY – CHILDE’S USE OF NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

CHILDE’S REACTION TO AUSTRALIAN, BRITISH AND U.S. SPOOKS – GEORGE ORWELL FINGERS HIM AS DISLOYAL – BENEDETTO CROCE AND CHILDE’S MARXISM

JACK LINDSAY – WESTERN MARXISM – PREMATURE NEW-LEFTISM – PSYCHOANALYSIS – SEXUALITY – POSH CARS

CHILDE’S LAST YEARS – HIS SUICIDE NOTE – SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR HISTORICAL MATERIALISM – A RADICAL INTELLECTUAL LIFE – DAVID MARTIN’S POEM

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