Mark Bevir

Bolshevism and the British Left

Mark Bevir examines a title on the Soviets and British Labour

Published July 13 2006

Modernizing England’s Past

Mark Bevir explores two works on the impact and transcendence of 19th-century Whig history.

Published June 21 2006

The Theosophists Helena Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Margaret Cousins and others went to India at the end of the 19th century to search for God and universal brotherhood in the Hindu tradition. They also ended up supporting women’s rights against contemporary Hindu practices. Mark Bevir explores the tensions between their fascination with traditional culture and the reforming zeal of their proto-feminism.

Published January 12 2006

Socialism: Dreams and Reality

Mark Bevir reports on two books which look at western socialism in the twentieth century.

Published April 30 1997

Labour Churches and Ethical Socialism

Onward Christian Socialists? Mark Bevir takes a timely look at a little-known phenomenon that was part of turn-of-the-century radicalism in Britain.

Published March 31 1997

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Lords of the Northern Forest

The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.