''Revolutionary History'' was a British journal covering the

history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

of the far left. It was established in 1988 by

Sam Bornstein Sam Bornstein (1920 - 1990) was a British Trotskyist historian and activist. Bornstein was a member of the ILP Guild of Youth, but eventually moved towards Trotskyist ideas and joined the Workers' International League (1937), Workers Internationa ...

and Al Richardson and maintained an editorial board representing many strands of British

Trotskyism Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Ukrainian-Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and some other members of the Left Opposition and Fourth International. Trotsky self-identified as an orthodox Marxist, a rev ...

.Obituary of Al Richardson
'' Weekly Worker'' 506, Thursday November 27, 2003 In its articles it also covered other anti-Stalinist

communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

traditions. Most issues were themed and consisted of documents that had either never appeared in English or had been out of print for many years, together with contextual and introductory materials. Some issues consisted of original studies of episodes of revolutionary struggle or studies of specific individuals or organisations. The journal appeared approximately once a year and was published through the Merlin Press. Its last issue appeared in 2009.

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Back issues of Revolutionary History journal
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