North West Labour History Society

🚨 NEW: Millions of people across England are already at high risk of flooding due to climate change.

Yet the only service equipped to respond is being cut back.

Political leaders must future-proof our communities, starting with real investment in the fire service.

For the Dear Love of Comrades with Karen Karbiener For the Dear Love of Comrades: Emily Wilding Davison Takes Walt Whitman to the Grave

📆THU 5 Mar 12.30-1.30pm EVENT: For the Dear Love of Comrades with Karen Karbiener on the life and death of radical suffragette Emily Wilding Davison and her admiration of poet Walt Whitman. With items on display from The Women's Library collections.
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This week, a brand new cohort of Organising Officers began Academy 2! 🎉

They've been getting to know each other during their first sessions alongside learning how to build their portfolios, plan campaigns and organising for recruitment 👏

We wish you the best of luck on your Academy 2 journey! 💜

More than a decade of political decisions to strip away central government funding has pushed the fire service to breaking point.

Cuts come at a cost - and that cost is public safety.

Firefighters gathered in Westminster today with a clear message: stop cuts, invest in the fire service.

#OtD 25 Feb 1889 Russian communist metalworker, Gavril Ilyich Miasnikov, was born. A participant in both 1905 and 1917 Revolutions as well as the Bolshevik underground, he later became a fierce critic of Lenin and the party's actions once in power stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9731...

This post and related entry was based off the pamphlet by the always excellent @brisradhis.bsky.social. Give them a follow!

Our 'Coal Not Dole' exhibition is now on display at Bristol Archives until the end of February (Tuesday - Thursday).

We’re pleased to announce that renowned radical historian & BRHG inspiration, Marcus Rediker, is coming to Bristol for UK launch of new book: Freedom Ship - The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea. Tie in with Bristol Radical History Festival M Shed 24 April (6-7.30pm) #BRHF2026

Suffragist leader Lydia Becker was born on this day 1827.

Poster headed ‘Fighting fit in the factory’, advertising a booklet of the same name. The main image is of a young man looking sternly towards the viewer, one hand is holding a massive spanner, the other is rolling up one shirt sleeve.

Poster headed ‘Fighting fit in the factory’, advertising a booklet of the same name. The main image is of a young woman in a headscarf, pulling back the lever of a large machine with one hand.

Fighting Fit In The Factory

Home Front health at the forefront in these striking #WW2 posters, featuring engineering workers striking heroic poses #histmed

The wartime ephemera was preserved in the archives of the British Employers' Confederation (mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/BEC/...)

Today in London’s radical history: mass unofficial strike against the Industrial Relations Bill, 1971. On March 1st 1971, hundreds of thousands of workers (some reports suggest as many as 1.5 million people) across Britain took part in an unofficial day of protest against the government’s new …

#OnThisDay in London trade union history, 1971: 250,000 march in a national protest march against the Tory government’s anti-trade union Industrial Relations Bill

More on the struggle against the Industrial Relations Bill:
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WCML holds books and pamphlets with important insights into the last year of Malcolm X’s life, drawing on his notebooks from his visits abroad, and debates about his changing political views.

#MalcolmX #OnThisDay #BlackHistory #LabourHistory #RadicalHistory #CivilRights #WorkingClassHistory #WCML

21 February 1965: Malcolm X assassinated Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team.

📣 New Podcast! "21 February 1965: Malcolm X assassinated" on @Spreaker #black #history #peoples

Latest @historyworkshop.org.uk with Indy Bhullar and Chelsea Collison (LSE), Peter Fisher and Jenny Yu (TUC Library) @londonmetuni.bsky.social and historian Laura Schwartz (Warwick Uni) discussing trade union history. @tuc.org.uk

The Exhibition is open until 31 Jan. www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

It’s the end of the week and we’ve now reached No. 25 of my recommended texts on the background, dynamics and politics of the 1926 General Strike in Britain in this 100th anniversary @strikemap.org @sslh.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @nwlh.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social @redhen90.bsky.social

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!

The forgotten radicalism of Sir Richard Acland DURING World War II there was an electoral truce between the main British parties. When a by-election arose, only the party already holding the seat would put up a candidate. The others would stand as...

Interesting article in Morning Star

The forgotten radicalism of Sir Richard Acland by Mat Coward
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Read about the Chatterton Massacre in the 50th edition of North West History Journal. See nwlh.org.uk

Read about the Chatterton Massacre in the 50th edition of North West History Journal. See nwlh.org.uk

A wooden coffin with bread and red roses.

2026 marks the 200th anniversary of the Lancashire weavers' uprisings and Chatterton Massacre.

Find out more about the events local partners are facilitating, here: www.balh.org.uk/news-commemo...

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

Today in London radical history: Chartist socialist George Julian Harney born Deptford, 1817. George Julian Harney was a central figure in London’s Chartist movement, as well as playing a significant part nationally, and became an early socialist. The following text gives a brief account of…

#OnThisDay in London radical history: Chartist socialist George Julian Harney born, Deptford, 1817.
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So today we’ve reached No 22 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 @sslh.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social @nwlh.bsky.social

#OtD 17 Feb 1964 a national strike of sugar workers broke out in Guyana demanding union recognition. British firms used African workers to try to break the strike of the mostly Asian workers, which worsened racial tensions in the country. More: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8874...

Coal miners, Durham, 1935, photo by E.O. Hoppé (1878-1972).

#OtD 16 Feb 1924 200k dock workers in Britain walked out on strike. @UKLabour were in power for the first time and invoked emergency powers to crush the strike. Despite this, the workers held out and won pay increases stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8775...

Right now @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social beg the courts for more injunctions to ban effective protest and picketing, this time for persons unknown.

Instead of resolving this dispute, they try to ban protest.

Solidarity is not a crime.

Follow: www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

#StrikeMap

North West History Society. New issue 50th edition. Article by Richard J Holden and Richard W Hall on the Blackburn Weaving Industry #Blackburn

North West History Society. New issue 50th edition. Article by Richard J Holden and Richard W Hall on the Blackburn Weaving Industry #Blackburn

Here is Number 20 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 @sslh.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @nwlh.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social

North West History Society. To see how to buy the latest copy of our journal. (The 50th issue) go to nwlh.org.uk