We provided a research bursary to help @loadaigh99.bsky.social research Scotland’s rural labour movement for his PhD. Here’s what he found.
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Thank you for your excellent report. Fascinating research on Scotland’s rural labour movement.
Thanks to @sslh.bsky.social for supporting my research
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Cartoon shows the scene of the Chartist 'riot' in Birmingham 1839, with giant large London policemen attacking the crowd. Text: Chartism Day 2026. 19 September, Warwick.
Chartism Day 2026
This year's event will take place in Warwick on 19 September 2026. For more info and to see the call for papers, click the link.
#Chartism #ChartismDay #CfP
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An index for Labour History Review vol 90 (2025) is now on our website. There are indexes for every issue of the Society's publications since it was founded in 1960, with a consolidated index in Excel from 1990 when LHR was launched. All indexes are free to download.
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Entries are invited for the Labour History Review postgraduate essay prize. The deadline for entries is 30 June 2026
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📣We are delighted to announce the 2026 recipients of the Joint BME Small Grants!
This scheme is supported by @histedsocuk.bsky.social; EHS; History UK; @historyworkshop.org.uk; @royalhistsoc.org; @sslh.bsky.social and @womenshistnet.bsky.social!✨
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Image of historian E.P.Thompson, founder member of the Society for the Study of Labour History.
If labour history matters to you, join us. Annual membership costs £37 (£21 for students) and includes a subscription to Labour History Review
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Great work, Ralph!
I’m finishing today my posting of recommended texts on the background, dynamics and politics of the 1926 General Strike in Britain - in this 100th anniversary year - with Nos. 27-35. Hope you’ve liked the overall series over recent weeks?!!
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Entries are invited for the Labour History Review postgraduate essay prize. The deadline for entries is 30 June 2026
(Please share widely)
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Out today, my new book about Margaret Bondfield, all-round ground-breaker and political pioneer is published by @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social and is available in both book and audio form. I am, obviously, very pleased about it!
We are sorry to hear of the death of former Labour Party archivist Stephen Bird, who has died aged 79.
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Match-box makers photographed working from home in c.1906. The photo shows a woman and girl assembling matchboxes with cut pieces of card and assembled boxes on a table in front of them. They are sitting in front of a fireplace and next to a bed which has piles of flatpack boxes, a basket and rugs on it. The bedroom includes patterned wallpaper, pictures on the wall and a large decoration in a glass dome on top of the mantlepiece.
Match-box makers, c.1906
In 1906 'sweated' (poorly paid) homeworkers were put on public display as part of a 6 week exhibition organised by the Daily News
The exhibition handbook included photos of workers (mostly women) in their usual domestic working conditions
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It’s the start of the week, so here’s Number 21 of my recommended texts on the background, dynamics and politics of the 1926 General Strike in Britain in this 100th anniversary year - one book per day Mon-Fri @strikemap.org @redhen90.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social
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So good to see this in print @sslh.bsky.social
We'll be there!
Looking forward to sharing some of our work with the National Union of Mineworkers archives at #HAP26 and catching up with other projects which have communities at the core!
An index for Labour History Review vol 90 (2025) is now on our website. There are indexes for every issue of the Society's publications since it was founded in 1960, with a consolidated index in Excel from 1990 when LHR was launched. All indexes are free to download.
sslh.org.uk/publications...
My new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, is now listed in Verso's trade catalogue for 2026.
You can find it here: versobooks.com/en-gb/pages/...
Cartoon shows the scene of the Chartist 'riot' in Birmingham 1839, with giant large London policemen attacking the crowd. Text: Chartism Day 2026. 19 September, Warwick.
Chartism Day 2026
This year's event will take place in Warwick on 19 September 2026. For more info and to see the call for papers, click the link.
#Chartism #ChartismDay #CfP
sslh.org.uk/2026/02/12/c...
A special issue of our journal Labour History Review on ‘Anti-Imperialism and the Global Left: New Appraisals’ is out now sslh.org.uk/2026/02/09/l...
Here we have Book No 17 of my recommended texts on the background, dynamics and politics of the 1926 General Strike in Britain in this 100th anniversary year - one book per day Mon-Fr
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The new issue of Labour History Review is out now, online and in print
@livunipress.bsky.social
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The new issue of Labour History Review is out now, online and in print
@livunipress.bsky.social
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For all of those left-wing bibliophiles amongst you, here is a wonderful second-hand resource
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Ok, so we’ve now reached No 15 of my recommended texts on the background, dynamics and politics of the 1926 General Strike in Britain in this 100th anniversary year - one book per day Mon-Fr @strikemap.org @redhen90.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @nwlh.bsky.social
Question for C19th Labour Historians have you come across references to “shuttle-gathering” as a tactic in industrial disputes? Hoping @katrinanavickas.bsky.social and @sslh.bsky.social might be able to help!
Today it’s No. 12
Recommended texts on the background, dynamics and politics of the 1926 General Strike in Britain in this 100th anniversary year - one book per day Mon-Fr
@strikemap.org @redhen90.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social
This is such an impressive and valuable collection of material. So easy to go down the rabbit hole and spend many hours engrossed in this.
