Maurice J. Casey

The BBC visited the IISG for a podcast about Edo Fimmen, a Dutch anti-fascist activist and union leader who led the powerful International Transport Workers' Federation.

The Alpenpost: A Girl's Guide to Fighting Hitler and Stalin Podcast Episode · Illuminated · 8 March · 32m

Just in time for your morning coffee, my radio doc "The Alpenpost: A Girl's Guide to Fighting Hitler and Stalin" is now available wherever you get your podcasts.

I would love if you gave it a listen 🙏

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

"A true story so remarkable it could easily become a film"

Lovely write up from Anna Jones in the Radio Times!

The Alpenpost: A Girl's Guide to Fighting Hitler and Stalin Podcast Episode · Illuminated · 8 March · 32m

Just in time for your morning coffee, my radio doc "The Alpenpost: A Girl's Guide to Fighting Hitler and Stalin" is now available wherever you get your podcasts.

I would love if you gave it a listen 🙏

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

TODAY at 19:15!

Announcement of international socialist women's meeting in Copenhagen in 1910.

At the International Socialist Women's congress at Copenhagen in 1910, it was decided to institute an International Women's Day, much in the spirit of the International Workers' Day. What is little known is that the Indian revolutionary Bhikhaiji Rustom Cama was present at the meeting in Copenhagen.

Thanks to Áine Toner of the @belfasttelegraph.co.uk for speaking with me about the Alpenpost!

Travelling Activists, Radical Hospitality and the Intimate History of Socialist Organising in Britain, c.1880–1914* This article considers the political lecture tour, and particularly the travelling socialist caravan tours organised by Clarion socialists at the end of the 19th century, to argue that, for socialist...

I've got a new article out @parlhistjournal.bsky.social 💥 It's about late 19thC socialist caravan tours & the production of everyday forms of cross-cultural connection & provincial internationalisms that were vital for the development of socialist ideas in this period

back at it*

*posting in the Facebook community group of a rural village because I believe the descendants of a revolutionary couple I am researching may currently reside there.

Coming up this SUNDAY! A true story of family, love and anti-Nazi resistance — researched and presented by yours truly. Live on BBC Radio 4 or listen later on BBC Sounds.

Coming up this SUNDAY! A true story of family, love and anti-Nazi resistance — researched and presented by yours truly. Live on BBC Radio 4 or listen later on BBC Sounds.

Over the last few months I have been learning code/game design with QUB MediaLab - part of a longer term project to create interactive 3D recreations of the historical spaces I research.

Yesterday I began (re)creating a 1930s anti-Nazi London hangout. Consider this very much the "Before" image:

Coming up tomorrow! Excited to see where the conversation takes us

Labour History Review Home The journal's emphasis is on British labour history, though comparative and international studies are not neglected. The editors welcome contributions which dig deeper within the traditional subject matter of labour history, but they are also keen to expand the parameters of the subject and the range of approaches taken to it. They are particularly interested in articles which engage with issues of gender and ethnicity or race, as well as class.

"Readers will struggle to find a more engaging, and engaged, example of public history: accessible to both professionals and non-specialists, beautifully constructed and written, with a tremendous flair for the telling detail"

🙏🙏🙏

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/lhr

There's an extraordinarily kind review of Hotel Lux from Stephen Hopkins in the latest Labour History Review.

Thank you to Stephen for understanding the book's mission: to encounter revolutionaries on their own terms + show how friendship and love was as powerful a motivation as ideology.

Exhibition explores Tudor legacies in contemporary art ‘Tudor Contemporary’, the first multidisciplinary exhibition to focus on the legacies of Tudor history and art in contemporary artistic practice is on display

Read about Tudor Contemporary at The Heong Gallery, @downingcollege.bsky.social, Cambridge: www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

what a double bill

On Sun 8 March BBC Radio 4 will broadcast The Alpenpost: A Girl's Guide to Fighting Hitler and Stalin - a documentary based on my research!

It traces how I uncovered the lost archive of an anti-Nazi resistance organiser in a wind-rattled villa on the Galician coast.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Producer Mark Burman and I travelled to Amsterdam and Spain to reveal details about the most extraordinary source I found: the Alpenpost, a hand-crafted child's newspaper.

It was written from exile by 2 girls, Elisa and Alida, and sent to their papa Edo: head of a continent wide resistance network.

On Sun 8 March BBC Radio 4 will broadcast The Alpenpost: A Girl's Guide to Fighting Hitler and Stalin - a documentary based on my research!

It traces how I uncovered the lost archive of an anti-Nazi resistance organiser in a wind-rattled villa on the Galician coast.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Really looking forward to this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar by @mauricejcasey.com! A great title and no doubt a great paper on anti-fascist vegetarians - one not to miss! Snacks and drinks provided. All welcome - in person and online! More information:
www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

We’re delighted to announce the society's 2026 Distinguished Lecture will be delivered by Prof Tyler Anbinder of George Washington University.

"The Surprising Socio-Economic Mobility of New York’s Great Famine Refugees"

Online, 4pm GMT (11am EST), Thurs. 5 Mar. 2026.

Register here: www.eshsi.org

🔴 The Long View #012
Radicals and the Soviet Union

@mauricejcasey.com on Hotel Lux and the forgotten activists whose lives intersected in 1920s Moscow.

Feb 26 | 11 AM ET

RSVP: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Totally Chaotic History: Roman Britain Gets Rowdy Tue 17 Feb 2026, 3pm Be astounded by unbelievable and hilarious facts as bestselling author Greg Jenner takes us on a riotously fun journey through Roman Britain Www.southbankcentre.co.uk

For half-term, next Tuesday I’m doing a fun kids’ event at @southbankcentre.bsky.social in London — I’ll be doing a funny talk on the history of Roman Britain, and my ace illustrator @rikinparekh.bsky.social will do a live draw-along tutorial

Tix cheap!

www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/tot...

Belfast! I'm BACK on the seminar circuit with my latest project.

All welcome to join me 20 Feb at 4pm for my talk 'First add oats, then kill Hitler: a recipe for resistance in underground Europe, 1920s-1940s'

Plenty of new findings on the correlation between diet and the desire to resist Nazis.

The Popular Front’s Enduring but Ambivalent Legacy - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Unity against the far right is a vital precondition for social transformation, but socialist strategy must go further

My essay on the Popular Front is now also available in English via the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung website @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...

Jamaica Daly An Irish family learns about their ancestor's past as a slave-owner.

This documentary was so much fun to make. It’s compiled from audio we gathered across a couple of years and follows two amazing women - Meg and Dympna - all the way to Jamaica, in search of Meg’s ancestor: an Irish Catholic enslaver and coffee planter, Peter Daly

www.rte.ie/radio/docono...

The notion that I just had a Zoom call with someone who remembers the Lux from the 1930s is truly surreal to me, it's like claiming that I just WhatsApp'ed Ramsay MacDonald.

In the years I've worked on the history of the Hotel Lux in the Comintern era, I never imagined I would ever speak with someone who remembered it.

But last week I received an email from someone who is about to turn 100 - and he had a story to share.

So excited to write up this encounter.

Oh thanks for the clarification!